masheen

English

Alternative forms

• machine

Noun

masheen (plural masheens)

1. Simplified or sensational spelling of machine.
   • 1902, Arthur Smith, The Doin's o' Jim o' Doads: Sketches of Lancashire Life‎^[1], Nelson, Coulton, page 9:

     Tha'd better pin thi slops first or else they'll happen catch t' masheen an' throw thi off.

   • 1982, Robert E. Newman, Reading, Writing, and Self-esteem‎^[2] (Education), Prentice-Hall, page 195:

     One day Mr. Magilacutty wanted to build a potato masheen.

   • 1993, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, The Hand of Chaos‎^[3] (Sci-fi), Bantam, →ISBN, page 464:

     This is the second purpose of the great masheen that we have directed for so many years without any knowledge of why.

   • 1994, Janet Frame, Intensive Care‎^[4], Digitized edition (Fiction), George Braziller, published 2008, →ISBN, page 283:

     … and has brought with him a sewing masheen such as I never saw before in my life although I have heard of them, a big masheen glittering with knobs ...

   • 2002, Paul E. Rivard, A New Order of Things: How the Textile Industry Transformed New England, UPNE, →ISBN, page 15:

     The "Masheen": The Wool Carding Machine Comes to New England

   • 2012 May 23, Amy Nile, “Time Masheen Arcade Opens in Chehalis”, in The Chronicle‎^[5], Lewis County, WA:

     A new Chehalis business is offering old-school entertainment. Time Masheen Arcade, which opened at 570 N. Market Blvd. on Saturday, has more than 20 classic arcade games, including such hits as Frogger, Pac-Man and Dig Dug.

Usage notes

• Unsuccessfully proposed by Noah Webster in An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828): [6]

Anagrams

• Meehans