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Filler

noun

Used for filling cracks or holes in a surface.

100 filler equal 1 forint in Hungary.

Copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper.

Anything added to fill out a whole. Synonym: makeweight.

The tobacco used to form the core of a cigar.

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"Filler" Quotes from Famous Books

... POWDER.—Without doubt, baking powder is the most satisfactory of the chemical leavening agents. It comes in three varieties, but they are all similar in composition, for each contains an alkali in the form of soda and an acid of some kind, as well as a filler of starch, which serves to prevent the acid and the alkali from acting upon each other. When moisture is added to baking powder, chemical action sets in, but it is not very rapid, as is apparent when a cake or a muffin ...

— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1 - Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

... patience and much love for one's fellow-man to be a chink-filler. She it is who, as wife, mother, sister, or, perhaps, maiden-aunt, picks up the hat or gloves Mamie has carelessly left on the drawing-room table, wipes the tiny finger smears from the window-panes at which baby stood to wave his hand to papa this morning, dusts the rungs of the chair ...

— The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) • Marion Harland

Words linked to "Filler" : tobacco, mastic, copy, fill, sizing, physical object, makeweight, putty, stiffener, baccy, object, cigar, sealing material, stocking filler, written matter, size, Hungarian monetary unit, forint