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Hide-work′er.

A machine for performing that part of the currying operation which consists in evening the thickness by means of knives, which, in the hand-operation, are applied to the hide while lying upon a slanting post called a beam. See currying.

In the machine (Fig. 2508) the table moves in a frame and is covered successively with cork or vul- [1102] canized rubber, felt, and cow-hide; it passes under a roller armed with two sets of spiral blades which commence at the middle of the roller and extend to its ends.

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