Crossword clues for threader
threader
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Threader \Thread"er\, n.
A device for assisting in threading a needle.
A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A device used to thread needles 2 A device used to machine a screw thread
WordNet
n. a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops [syn: bodkin]
Usage examples of "threader".
Indeed, the Russian was taking this much more matter-of-factly than Orney or Threader, who were so befuddled that they almost looked frightened.
Daniel, Orney, Kikin, and Threader were in the hold, where Orney had improvised a bench by throwing a plank between two clapped-out sawbucks.
This had been cast into the river and supplanted by more furniture of the plank-and-cask school, on which Threader and Kikin had already claimed seats.
This was a favorable omen, as this was the sort of tedium that men like Threader and Waterhouse excelled at, and profited from.
A schedule was drawn up whereby Orney, Kikin, Threader, and Waterhouse would take turns keeping an eye on the Tatler-Lock during the hours Saturn was not there.
Daniel, Leibniz, Orney, Threader, and Kikin were gathered about, standing on shards of glass that had been blown out of the frames during the recent entertainments.
Left with nothing to do, Orney and Threader stood by, and Daniel was struck by the difference in their faces: Orney as ebullient as he was ever likely to get, Threader curiously distracted and rigid.
She made a circuit of the house, around the front, other side, past the sheet-obscured windows of the ballroom, the flicker of the threader occasionally hollowing out the dark behind them.
The trigger sequence ensured that a threader was never set off randomly.
The threader was in her hand a practiced moment later, fingers moving into the trigger sequence.
When she opened it, she found a complete sewing kit, with numerous spools of thread in a variety of colors, a pincushion, packets of needles, a needle threader, an extensive selection of buttons, and other paraphernalia.
He brought wrenches and pipes and valves and a pipe threader into the kitchen, and he and Rone connected up the stove.
A hook had snagged him, and attached to the hook by a silver threader, a lure.
Savn fingered a yarn-dyed pattern of sharply angled red and white lines against a dark green fabric, while Mae and Pae chatted with Threader about how His Lordship was staying in his manor house near Smallcliff, and Polyi looked bored.
Jim is standing with a pipe threader in his hand, looking towards the back door.