elias howe

1. 1.

   United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867)

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Questions about elias howe

What does elias howe mean?

elias howe means "United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867)".

What is another word for elias howe?

Close synonyms include Howe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elias howe a common word?

elias howe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.