Liner: Definition and part of speech

Liner

  1. n. One who lines, as, a liner of shoes.
  2. n. A vessel belonging to a regular line of packets; also, a line-of-battle ship; a ship of the line.
  3. n. A thin piece placed between two parts to hold or adjust them, fill a space, etc.; a shim.
  4. n. A lining within the cylinder, in which the piston works and between which and the outer shell of the cylinder a space is left to form a steam jacket.
  5. n. A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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