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Fourdrinier definition

Four·drini·er (fo̵or drin′ē ər)

adjective

designating or of a papermaking machine that produces paper in a continuous strip or roll

Etymology: after Sealy and Henry Fourdrinier, 19th-c. Eng papermakers, for whom the machine was developed

noun

such a machine

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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