Crossword clues for kier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kier \Kier\, n. [Icel. ker a tub.] (Bleaching) A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve.
Wiktionary
n. A bleaching vat.
Wikipedia
Kier is a first and surname of several people and is also used in several other contexts. It is also spelled Keir.
A kier or keeve (or similar spellings) is a large circular boiler or vat used in bleaching or scouring cotton fabric. They were also used for processing paper pulp.
In use they were continuously rotated by an engine, steam being supplied through a rotating joint in the axle. They were usually spherical, sometimes cylindrical, and some were recycled from old boiler shells.
Usage examples of "kier".
Here, somewhere, lived Kier Gray, absolute dictator of the entire planet.
A slan girl named Kathleen Layton was to be killed so that Kier Gray might be undermined.
Petty or a Kier Gray, either of whom could hold rigidly to a line of reasoning without once slipping up.
For Kier Gray, she had found out long ago, shared with that most hateful of men, John Petty, the ability to think in her presence without deviation, in a manner that made mind reading a practical impossibility.
And Kathleen was conscious of a glow as she realized that Kier Gray, even in this moment of strain, was playing his cards without missing a trick.
I am, I think, awake enough to realize that Kier Gray has succumbed to that gnawing disease of dictators of all ages, the persecution complex.
Her mind and her eyes flashed toward Kier Gray, whose very presence had kept the others from yielding to panic.
Mardue, one of the three she had thought in unconditional support of Kier Gray, cleared his throat.
Jommy, to realize that the palace of the slans now belongs to Kier Gray and his ghoulish crew.
Then again it is possible that at this moment the slans are in conference with Kier Gray at the palace.
Rumor to that effect has already spread, in spite of the noncommittal statement issued a few minutes ago by Kier Gray himself.
No one except the authorities know exactly what happened, and you have just heard the only statement on the matter, given out by Kier Gray himself.
Over and over the statement of Kier Gray was repeated, the same accompanying rumors were given.
She saw that Kier Gray was picking up a sheet of gray paper from his desk, and she brought her mind back to what he was saying.
Abruptly, she grew aware of a thought inside her brain, a sharp, lashing thought from Kier Gray.