padder

Definitions


[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- A person who or thing which pads.

- A machine for impregnating fabric with a liquid or paste by pressing between rollers.

- A capacitor (usually adjustable) connected in series in a tuned circuit in order to improve the tracking with another tuned circuit at low frequencies when the tuning of the two circuits is ganged (as in a superheterodyne).


Phrases:

Origin:
early 19th century; earliest use found in Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873), writer and politician. From pad + -er


[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- A kind of bat with a rounded solid wooden head, for playing padder tennis.


Phrases:

Origin:
1920s; earliest use found in The Times. Probably from pad- + -er




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