資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Sinker \Sink"er\, n.
One who, or that which, sinks. Specifically:
(a) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it.
(b) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or
other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the
needles.
{Dividing sinker}, in knitting machines, a sinker between two
jack sinkers and acting alternately with them.
{Jack sinker}. See under {Jack}, n.
{Sinker bar}.
(a) In knitting machines, a bar to which one set of the
sinkers is attached.
(b) In deep well boring, a heavy bar forming a connection
between the lifting rope and the boring tools, above the
jars.
Dividing \Di*vid"ing\, a.
That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating.
{Dividing engine}, a machine for graduating circles (as for
astronomical instruments) or bars (as for scales); also,
for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels.
{Dividing sinker}. (Knitting Mach.). See under {Sinker}.