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a machine for making loom reeds; see sense 11a.
(a) a guard worn to protect the mouth of a worker in needle-manufacture (now rare); (b) Sport a protector for the mouth used by participants in…
A covering for the thumb, as the leathern pad worn by needle-grinders; the thumb of a glove or mitten (= thumb, n. 2).