linter

[ lin-ter ]

/ ˈlɪn tər /

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noun

linters, short cotton fibers that stick to seeds after a first ginning.

a machine for removing lint from cloth.

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Origin of linter

An Americanism dating back to 1730–40; lint + -er¹

Words nearby linter

linsey, linsey-woolsey, linstock, lint, lintel, linter, lintie, Linton, lintwhite, linty, linum

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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 Trollope
But 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 Trollope
He 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 Trollope
Now the seed, free of all else, is carried by another elevator and endless screw conveyor to the "linter."
Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888|Various

The low back part of the house was called the "lean-to" or linter.
The Historical Child|Oscar Chrisman

British Dictionary definitions for linter

linter

/ (ˈlɪntə) /

noun

a machine for stripping the short fibres of ginned cotton seeds

(plural) the fibres so removed

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