(engineering) A groove cut lengthwise with the grain in a piece of wood.
(mining engineering) A continuous mining machine in which cutting blades, moved over the face being worked, bite into the coal as they are pulled along and discharge it on an accompanying conveyor. A V-shaped scraper that presses against the return belt of a conveyor, removing coal and debris from it.

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