单词 | butt adjuster |
释义 | > as lemmasbutt adjuster butt adjuster n. now rare a mechanism for squaring the butts of the sheaves in a self-binding reaping machine; cf. sense 2c. ΚΠ 1883 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 20 Feb. 679/1 The swinging butt-adjuster. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 174 The butts are at the front of the machine and are evened up by a device called a butt adjuster, which is..given an elliptical movement..thus squaring the butt of the sheaf. 1936 W. R. Humphries Care & Repair Mowers & Binders (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1754) 14 On its way down the deck the butts of the grain are evened up by a lever-controlled butt adjuster. < as lemmas |
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