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Example sentences for "hollow cylinder"

  • A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack.

  • A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon.

  • The pattern is engraved upon the surface of a hollow cylinder of copper, or sometimes gun-metal, and the cylinder is forced by pressure upon a strong iron mandrel, which serves as its turning shaft.

  • The shaft or great body of the mould is a hollow cylinder, finely polished in the inside, and open at both extremities.

  • It is a hollow cylinder of copper, from three to five inches in diameter, and about 44 inches long, perforated over its whole surface with holes of about one sixteenth of an inch, placed about a quarter of an inch asunder.

  • Plate 20) is a hollow cylinder, of a diameter proportioned to the effect wanted to be produced.

  • Plate 36, A B is a hollow cylinder, running on two gudgeons C D, with a very slow motion, and thus, requiring very little power.

  • A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers.

  • Defn: A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom.

  • It consists essentially of an upright shaft armed with projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow cylinder, tub, or vat, in which the clay is placed.

  • A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion.

  • A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom.

  • The maximum resistance of a tube or hollow cylinder to external stresses will be attained when all the layers are expanded simultaneously to the elastic limit of the material employed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aniline black; average rate; bread crumbs; brought forth; certain varieties; electrical energy; expect from; her lips were parted; holding them; hollow cylinder; hollow place; hollow sphere; hollow square; hollow tone; hollow tree; hollow trees; hollow voice; neighboring village; open question; opposite page; small stones; speculative thought; spiritual good; that most; will speake; will wait