The net earnings of the planters were increased in a still greater proportion than this, for the work-seasons in the two crops could be so dovetailed that a single gang might cultivate both staples.
The work journal of 1854 shows how the gang dovetailed the planting, cultivation, and harvesting of the several crops and the general upkeep of the plantation.
Lay out the drawer front by superposing the dovetailed side, X, on the end of the front, Y, as in a thru dovetail.
In the best form, the sides are dovetailed to the front for strength, Fig.
The upper drawer rail may bedovetailed at both ends into the tops of the legs, as shown in Fig.
But, so far as he could see, the dovetailed masonry stood intact.
Instead of one commonplace phrase-form, there are two or three which are dovetailed into each other.
In the brasses of the cylinder shaft, dovetailed pieces are made to slide, being pressed by set screws w', against the engraved cylinder F, similar to what has been described for adjusting the cylinders to one another.
Lower end, a broad web of coloured stripes, through which may run a dovetailed coloured cord, and warp loops.
Upper end, a broad web of coloured stripes, through which may run a dovetailed coloured cord, and warp fringe.
A dovetailed mortise is formed at a suitable point in each of the stones to be joined and connected by a chase.
A dovetailed mortise is prepared in the stone and the ragged end of the bolt placed in this, and the mortise filled in with molten lead or sand and sulphur (fig.
Plugs or dowels of lead are formed by pouring molten lead through a channel into dovetailed mortises in each stone (figs.
The corners can be dovetailed together if desired.
The extra time it takes in making the dovetailed joints will greatly add to the durability of the box.
The making of dovetailedboxes is taken up in Chapter XXXV.
While these two parts were gluing, the sides and ends were dovetailed as in previous boxes.
The edges are joined by angle-iron, rivets and screws, and are rebated and dovetailed together.
And the entire show must be dovetailed to the split seconds of a stop-watch.
In front of the termination of the bars it is dovetailed into the sides and point of the frog.
The External Border or Circumference is intimately dovetailed with the horny laminæ of the wall.
It is designed to make the dovetailed tongue as well as the groove.
In some engines the strap encircling the crank pin is fixed immovably to the connecting rod by dovetailed keys, and a bolt passes through the keys, rod, and strap, to prevent the dovetailed keys from working out.
A piece is left out of the eccentric in casting it to allow of the screw being inserted, and the void is afterward filled by inserting a dovetailed piece of metal.
Boxes dovetailed at the corners will make excellent shelves and look neat if painted.
Each separate blade is firmly secured by the dovetail shape of the root, which is held between the corresponding dovetailedslot in the foundation ring and the undercut side of the groove.
In modern armory the pendants are all but invariably reduced to three, which, in debased examples, are given a dovetailed form while the ends of the fillet are cut off.
A more creditable explanation refers such irregularity to spiritual rather than spirituous influences, the lands of two bishops, we are told, having thus dovetailed into each other in the days when bishops had power to bind and loose on earth.
The same tool which cuts the mortise also cuts the tenon, the two pieces of work to be dovetailed being clamped together to the end of the table.
This tool is sometimes made adjustable by means of a piece dovetailed in the front end of the plane, which, by being lowered, alters the sweep and finally converts it from a convex to a concave.
To cause the bar t to accurately fit the dovetail, notwithstanding any wear of the surfaces, a slip G is introduced, being set up to t by set-screws passing through that side of the dovetailed piece.
It consists of strips of lignum vitae dovetailed into the bearing or bush, and running lengthways of it.
The blocks or dies A and B are dovetailed into their places, and secured by keys K; hence they may be removed, and dies of other shapes substituted.
At one of the corners which had no bastions were double gates, also made of logs, bound by cross and diagonal bars, dovetailed and pinned firmly to them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dovetailed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
