The wedge abuts on the bottom of the hole and the piece is driven down upon it.
Quoin post (Canals), the post of a lock gate which abuts against the wall.
When a house abuts at the rear on a street or permanent 'open space,' then no private open space or curtilage need be provided.
On the ground floor a water-closet abuts on the morning-room windows, while in the area beneath these windows is another water-closet, previously mentioned.
The garden abuts on a street and lies very low, being only two or three feet at most above the average level of the river Anton, which forms one of its boundaries.
This mountain is placed at the extremity of a range that abuts upon the lower Saco valley, and therefore overlooks all the hill-country on the east and south-east as far as the sea-coast.
The strange aspect of this mountain is contrasted by the sea-like plain, which not onlyabuts against its steep sides, but likewise separates the parallel ranges.
The long semi-circular wall of precipice which, sweeping inwards at the bottom of the bay, leaves to the inhabitants between its base and the beach their fertile meniscus of land, here abuts upon the coast.
Those in the immediate neighborhood of the town, and a bed which abuts on the Lias at Eathie, belong to the upper platform; while those which appear in Eathie Burn, and along the shores at Navity, belong to the lower.
For turning hollows, a long spike is used instead of a short point: then, a hole is bored into the wood to the depth of the intended hollow, and the spike is pushed forward until it abuts against the bottom of the hole.
The argentea interna abuts on a cartilaginous capsule, which completely invests the inner part of the eye.
Posteriorly the sclerotic abutson the cartilaginous orbit, which encloses the optic ganglion (G.
Its shape is greatly distorted by the large ring-plain a, which abuts on its N.
Another, the coarsest, abutson a mountain arm connecting d with Mersenius, and, reappearing on the E.
A large lozenge-shaped enclosure abuts on the wall, near the crater E.
An incomplete ring, with a very attenuated border, abuts on the S.
There are very clear indications of "faulting" on a vast scale where this broad section of the wallabuts on the N.
This ring-plain, of about the same size as Fabricius, but with a still loftier barrier, abuts on the N.
In the French Marine the escape of gas is stopped very much as in Krupp's system; a Broadwell ring is let into a recess in the end of the bore, and a plate on the face of the breech-block abuts against it.
On the southern shore of the lake of Urumiah the edge of the plateau of Iran abuts on the Armenian table-land, and then, stretching to the south-east, it bounds the river valley of the Tigris toward the east.
The reliefs on the slabs of the second hall, which abuts on this, exhibit colossal forms with eagle heads.
The fifth campaign of Sennacherib, according to his own annals, was partly in a mountainous country which he calls Nipur or Nibur--probably the most northern portion of the Zagros range where it abuts on Ararat.
It contains also the ruins of two small temples, and abuts at its north-western angle on the most singular structure which has as yet been discovered among the remains of the Assyrian cities.
It lies in the south-east corner of the province of the Punjab, to which it was added in 1858, and abuts on the right bank of the river Jumna.
Dromona Castle, in part a modern structure, which abuts upon a more ancient structure, is the remains of an old castle of the Fitzgeralds.
It's the first high mountain that abuts on the river above West Point, you will remember.
This intersection is called by joiners a mitre, and a mitred moulding is an advance on a stopped moulding or one that abutsagainst a cross-piece.
It will be seen that in this example, although the moulding is mitred at the top of the panel, it still abuts against the bottom rail.
The avenue which I have followed in an easterly direction abuts on as disconcerting a chaos of granite as exists in Thebes--the hall of the feasts of Thothmes III.
A weld in which the end of one piece merely abuts against the other when the two pieces are put together to weld.
Q is adjusted so that when P abuts against it the tool will cut to the correct diameter when it is moved in as far as nuts P Q will permit.
The end of the screw A abuts against the stop B in the usual manner; it is, however, threaded through the eye of a bolt C, as well as through the end of the turret slide, so that it may be locked by simply operating the nut D.
The edge of the gib here abuts against the back of the top brass, or key brass, as it is sometimes termed, which is objectionable, inasmuch as that it is apt to indent the brass, as shown in Fig.
A and B on the standard, when the microscope carriageabuts against the heads H, Fig.
During the admission the latch block abuts against the end y of the recess w and is tripped therefrom by the cam n'.
At the bottom it has a keyway for a key K, which abuts against the plate P.
The upper end of S is threaded into the nut N, which is capable of end motion in its bearing at e, and which abuts against the lever L, the latter abutting against the end of the screw M, and acting at its other end on the rubber cushion P.
When the end of a screw abuts against the work to secure it, it is termed a set screw.
Oval in form, it communicates by means of a tube with a stomach, broad and short, which descends vertically, and abuts by a large opening on the visceral cavity, the interior of which is divided into little cells or chambers.
The mouth almost directly abuts on the stomach, which is merely a globular sac, filling nearly all the central portion of the visceral cavity.
The platform at Persepolis is built at the foot of a high range of rocky hills, on which it abuts towards the east.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abuts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
