merchant train

A train of rolls with grooves of varying sizes and shapes, which reduce the reheated puddle-bars to bar-iron of merchantable form. IMG:content-1111.png:[blocks in formation] *mer-chant-hood, s. [Eng. merchant; -hood.] The occupation of a merchant. "Finding merchant hood in Glasgow ruinous to weak health."-Carlyle: Reminiscences, i. 171. mer-chant-like, *mer-chant-ly, adj . [Eng. merchant ; -like , -ly.] Like a merchant; becoming or befitting a merchant; pertaining to the busine of a merchant. "At the first glance this transaction seemed merchant like and fair." -Macaulay : Hist. Eng . , ch. xxi.