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Example sentences for "hand labour"

  • Glascott and Mitchell, December, 1823, for ship nails with rounded heads, by hand labour.

  • Many contrivances have been made to heckle by machinery, but it may be doubted whether any of them as yet make such good work with so little loss as hand labour.

  • You talk about the producers being robbed of most of the value of what they produce,' said Harlow, 'but you must remember that it ain't all produced by hand labour.

  • This is doubtless due to the displacement of hand labour by machinery!

  • In those days, because there was no labour-saving machinery the community was dependent for its existence on the productions of hand labour.

  • With the Stanhope Press, printing was as far advanced as it could possibly be by means of hand labour.

  • That is to say, although books could be beautifully printed by hand labour, they could not be turned out in any large numbers.

  • Instead of the old-fashioned inking balls, which were beaten on the type by hand labour, several cylinders covered with felt and leather were used, and formed part of the machine itself.

  • The plan had not then succeeded so well as to come into general use, in consequence of the cheapness of the usual mode of welding by hand labour, combined with some other difficulties with which the patentee had to contend.

  • But it gave an increased stimulus to the demand for self-acting machine tools by which the untrustworthy efforts of hand labour might be avoided.

  • These were used in lieu of horse power for thrashing corn, and performing several operations that used to be done by hand labour in the farmyards.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    hand against; hand and; hand books; hand conflict; hand corner; hand edge; hand fight; hand figure; hand needle; hand over; hand shall; hand side; handed down; handed game; handsome face; handsome fortune; handsome house; handsome present; handsomely bound; next year; police department; poor wife; said with; small garrison; thick slice; veto power