1. A device for chopping or pulverizing unwanted parts of crops such as cornstalks or potato vines.

2. The part of a thresher that strikes the grains.

1. A tool for packing in material to fill a blasthole containing a charge of powder.

2. A laborer who shovels or dumps asbestos fibers and sprays them with water in order to prepare them for the beating.

A machine that cuts or beats paper stock.

The section of a loom that drives the weft from the shed into the cloth.