machine-made
Adjective
Meaning
made by machine
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machine made
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How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
Cigars made from smaller bits of leaf, including many machine-made cigars, are said to be made of "short filler."
Chaburas also work together in machine-made matzo factories, which produce the typically square-shaped matzo sold in stores.
Cuba produces both handmade and machine-made cigars.
In low-grade and machine-made cigars, chopped tobacco leaves are used for the filler, and long leaves or a type of "paper" made from tobacco pulp is used for the wrapper which binds the cigar together.
Considerable skill and dexterity on the part of the cigar roller is needed to avoid these opposing pitfalls — a primary factor in the superiority of hand-rolled cigars over their machine-made counterparts.