Leaf Cutter - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: leaf cutterleaf cutter
Any one of various species of wild bees of the genus Megachile which cut rounded pieces from the edges of leaves or the petals of flowers to be used in the construction of their nests which are made in holes and crevices or in a leaf rolled up for the purpose Among the common American species are Megachile brevis and Megachile centuncularis Called also rose cutting bee...
Megachile
A leaf cutting bee of the genus Megachilus See Leaf cutter under Leaf...
Cutter
One who cuts as a stone cutter a die cutter esp one who cuts out garments...
Cutter of the tallies
Cutter of the tallies, an officer in the Exchequer to whom it belonged to provide wood for the tallies, and to cut the sum paid upon them, etc. see TALLY....
Coca leaf
Coca leaf, means--(i) the leaf and young twigs of any coca plant, that is, of the Erythroxylon coca (Lamk.) and the Erythroxylon nivo-gratense (Hiern.) and their varieties, and of any other species of this genus which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be coca plants for the purposes of this Act.(ii) any mixture thereof, with or without natural materials. [Medicinal and Toilet Preparations (Excise Duties) Act, 1955 (16 of 1955), s. 2 (ab)](2) means--(a) the leaf of the coca plant except of a leaf from which all ecgonine, cocaine and any other ecgonine alkaloids have been removed;(b) any mixture thereof with or without any neutral material.but does not include any preparation containing not more than 0.1 per cent. of cocaine. [Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (61 of 1985), s. 2 (vi)]...
Leafed
Having such a leaf or so many leaves used in composition as broad leafed four leafed...
fig leaf
The leaf from a fig tree...
Leaf footed
Having leaflike expansions on the legs said of certain insects as the leaf footed bug Leptoglossus phyllopus...
Sloop
A vessel having one mast and fore and aft rig consisting of a boom and gaff mainsail jibs staysail and gaff topsail The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit topmast and standing rigging while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted The sloop usually carries a centerboard and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880 One radical distinction is that a sloop may carry a centerboard See Cutter and Illustration in Appendix...
Blanchard lathe
A kind of wood turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms as felloes gun stocks lasts spokes etc after a given pattern The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern...
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