masheen
English
Alternative forms
- machine
Noun
masheen (plural masheens)
- Simplified or sensational spelling of machine.
- 1902, Arthur Smith, The Doin's o' Jim o' Doads: Sketches of Lancashire Life, Nelson, Coulton, page 9:
- Tha'd better pin thi slops first or else they'll happen catch t' masheen an' throw thi off.
- 1982, Robert E. Newman, Reading, Writing, and Self-esteem (Education), Prentice-Hall, page 195:
- One day Mr. Magilacutty wanted to build a potato masheen.
- 1993, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, The Hand of Chaos (Sci-fi), Bantam, →ISBN, page 464:
- This is the second purpose of the great masheen that we have directed for so many years without any knowledge of why.
- 1994, Janet Frame, Intensive Care (Fiction), Digitized edition, George Braziller, published 2008, →ISBN, page 283:
- … and has brought with him a sewing masheen such as I never saw before in my life although I have heard of them, a big masheen glittering with knobs ...
- 2002, Paul E. Rivard, A New Order of Things: How the Textile Industry Transformed New England, UPNE, →ISBN, page 15:
- The "Masheen": The Wool Carding Machine Comes to New England
- 2012 May 23, Amy Nile, “Time Masheen Arcade Opens in Chehalis”, in The Chronicle, Lewis County, WA:
- A new Chehalis business is offering old-school entertainment. Time Masheen Arcade, which opened at 570 N. Market Blvd. on Saturday, has more than 20 classic arcade games, including such hits as Frogger, Pac-Man and Dig Dug.
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Usage notes
- Unsuccessfully proposed by Noah Webster in An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828):
Anagrams
- Meehans