Filler

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Filler \Fill"er\, n.
     1. One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.
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              'T is mere filler, to stop a vacancy in the
              hexameter.                            --Dryden.


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              They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep
              the fillers always at work.           --Mortimer.
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     2. (Paint.) A composition, as of powdered silica and oil,
        used to fill the pores and grain of wood before applying
        paint, varnish, etc.
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     3. (Forestry) Any standing tree or standard higher than the
        surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as coppice
        under standards. Chiefly used in the pl.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Filler \Fill"er\, n. [From 1st {Fill}.]
     A thill horse. [Prov. Eng.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  filler
       n 1: used for filling cracks or holes in a surface
       2: 100 filler equal 1 forint
       3: copy to fill space between more important articles in the
          layout of a magazine or newspaper
       4: anything added to fill out a whole; "some of the items in
          the collection are mere makeweights" [syn: {makeweight}]
       5: the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "filler":
     IC analysis, appositive, attribute, attributive, bidet, bush,
     bushing, carriage horse, cart horse, cavalry horse, complement,
     construction modifier, cutting, deep structure, direct object,
     doubling, doublure, draft horse, dray horse, driving horse, facing,
     fill horse, filling, form-function unit, function, gigster, hack,
     hackney, hunter, immediate constituent analysis, indirect object,
     inlay, inlayer, insole, interlineation, jument, lead, leader,
     levels, liner, lining, modifier, mount, object, pack horse,
     packing, padding, palfrey, phrase structure, plow horse,
     pole horse, polo pony, post-horse, predicate, qualifier, ranks,
     remount, rider, riding horse, road horse, roadster, rouncy,
     saddle horse, saddler, shaft horse, shallow structure, slot,
     slot and filler, stalking-horse, strata, structure, stuffing,
     subject, sumpter, sumpter horse, surface structure,
     syntactic analysis, syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax,
     tagmeme, thill horse, thiller, underlying structure, wadding,
     wainscot, wheeler, wheelhorse, word arrangement, word order,
     workhorse