linter
linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.
a machine for removing lint from cloth.
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How to use linter in a sentence
In those days he often wandered up and down the linter and across the moor to the Linn, and so down to the lake.
Phineas Finn | Anthony TrollopeBut at this moment, though he remembered much that had passed between them, he was not even thinking of the Braes of linter.
Phineas Finn | Anthony TrollopeHe went to the window, and raised it for a moment, that he might hear the well-remembered sound of the Fall of linter.
Phineas Redux | Anthony TrollopeNow the seed, free of all else, is carried by another elevator and endless screw conveyor to the "linter."
The low back part of the house was called the "lean-to" or linter.
The Historical Child | Oscar Chrisman
British Dictionary definitions for linter
/ (ˈlɪntə) /
a machine for stripping the short fibres of ginned cotton seeds
(plural) the fibres so removed
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