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Depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue.

To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.

A screw designed for a wood or a similar material, with a point, a relatively coarse thread, a thick shank, and, usually, an unthreaded portion of the shank at the head end.

A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term).

Gum, starch, etc., used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.

A powerful, noisy, motorized saw, typically having a rotary blade with large teeth, sometimes portable and sometimes mounted into a table.

To flatten a book during binding

A defect in glass.

To request or order the return of (a faulty product).

To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).

To spray again.

To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

An organization whose members belong to the same trade and that acts collectively to address common issues.

A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture

To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).

A forge in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.

A person who reverse-engineers products.

To brighten (a metal) by the electrolytic removal of its surface.

Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.

A declaration issued by a government agency declaring someone the inventor of a new invention and having the privilege of stopping others from making, using or selling the claimed invention; a letter patent.