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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A double-drum winch with two steel ropes; the tail rope passes round a pulley or tail sheave at one end of the face or road, brought back and attached to the scraper bucket; the pull rope is coupled directly to the front end of the bucket, which is hauled forward and digs into the loose coal or stone until full and then rides to the discharge point; when empty, the bucket is drawn back by the tail rope. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. See:scraper loader b. A mechanical dragshovel loader c. A mobile drag scraper with a metal slide to elevate the bucket to dumppoint. (references) | |
Occupations | Casts plaster patterns used in shaping plastic or plastic-impregnated materials: Brushes inside of mold sections with lubricant, and bolts sections together. Mixes specified amounts of plaster and water in mixing machine. Pours plaster into mold and positions mold in machine that rolls mold to distribute mixture evenly and facilitate drying. Repeats operation, after each layer of plaster has set, to build casting to specified thickness. Removes bolts from mold and pries sections apart, using bar. Removes fins and flanges from pattern, using scraper. Fills bubble holes and smooths uneven surfaces with wet plaster. Places pattern in drying room to cure. May coat pattern with sealing lacquer. (references) |
| Repairs porcelain enamel finish on commercial and household appliances or fixtures: Inspects marked defects, such as chipped or cracked surfaces to ascertain extent of damage and determine repair procedures. Removes old porcelain or smooths rough spots, using sandpaper, emery stone, and power grinder. Turns spray gun nozzle and valves to set spray pattern and to adjust air pressure. Coats defective area with enamel, using spray gun, to fill holes or other flaws. Cleans spray gun, paintbooths, hoses, and pressure tanks, using solvent, putty knife, and brush. May brush on porcelain. May replace damaged appliance panels or trim, using screwdriver, wrench, or pliers. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SLUSHER |
| Specialty definitions using "SLUSHER": block caving ♦ slusher operator. (references) |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SLUSHER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Slusher | Last name | 2,000 | 7,124 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "SLUSHER": slusher drift. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
slusher | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SLUSHER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
French | galerie de raclage (slusher drift). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | usherslay скрепер (road scraper, scraper). (various references) rastrillo (portcullis, rake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-l-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: lusher, lushes, rhesus, rhuses, rushes, ushers. | |
-2 letters: herls, hurls, lehrs, lures, rules, ruses, shuls, slues, slurs, slush, suers, users, usher. | |
-3 letters: herl, hers, hues, hurl, lehr, less, lues, lure, lush, resh, rhus, rues, rule, ruse, rush, sels, sers, shes, shul, slue, slur, suer, sues, sure, user, uses. | |
-4 letters: els, ers, ess, her, hes, hue. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-l-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: blushers, flushers, hurtless, hustlers, ruthless, slushier. | |
+2 letters: bulrushes, bushelers, humorless, shoulders, shufflers, slouchers, spherules. | |
+3 letters: bullrushes, churchless, flourishes, herculeses, housecarls, publishers, reshuffles, rulerships, ruthlessly, schedulers, sepulchers, sepulchres, slaughters, squelchers, sulphurise, upholsters. | |
+4 letters: flourishers, harmfulness, horselaughs, hourglasses, humorlessly, hurtfulness, kieselguhrs, languishers, nailbrushes, overslaughs, republishes, reschedules, ruthfulness, shutterless, southerlies, spherulites, sulphureous, sulphurised, sulphurises, superschool, supersleuth. | |
+5 letters: barrelhouses, cheerfulness, churchliness, churlishness, copublishers, daughterless, householders, lectureships, mirthfulness, preschedules, prothalluses, relinquishes, republishers, reupholsters, rightfulness, ruthlessness, shipbuilders, slaughterers, slaughterous, subthreshold, superhelices, superhelixes, superschools, supersleuths, swashbuckler, truthfulness, upholsterers, upholsteries, urolithiases, wrathfulness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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