dough kneaded

Soft like dough. "He demeans himself in the dull expre ion so like a dough-kneaded thing, that he has not spirit enough left him so far to look to his syntax, as to avoid nonsense."Milton: Apology for Smectymnuus. dough-kneader, s . A pair of rollers, one corrugated lengthwise and the other transversely, working in a frame with two inclined boards and a disk below the lower roller propelled by a crank, and the rollers geared together by an elastic cro -band. There are other forms, such as a roller swiveled to a post, like the brake of a biscuit-maker, which is also a dough-kneader.