Meaning of vending-machine | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of vending machine.

alt-of, dated

Examples

“In an automatic vending-machine, the combination, with the case and the goods-drawer arranged to slide therein, and the locking devices for the latter, of the movable partition and the locking-tongue projecting downward into the money-receptacle, the chute extending from the locking devices upward to a point near the top of the partition, and the movable block provided with a slot and adapted to connect the slotted case-front with the chute, substantially as set forth.”

“Love-apple in Canberra’s university put out of order a vending-machine.”

“If we carry two-dollar bills, we’ll never have to carry more than one Sacajawea, and those one-dollar coins will save vending-machines, mass-transit systems, and pay telephones hundreds of millions of dollars more.”

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