This is commonly a child, who laying the head upon a block of steel, and applying the point of a small punch to it, pierces the eye with a smart tap of a hammer, applied first upon the one side, and then exactly opposite upon the other.
When perfectly cool, the next process is to punch a longitudinal groove in the stem of every needle, which receives the point or barb, when depressed.
The punch immediately after being driven down into the pan is raised by the action of a spiral spring.
The punch has an edge which marks the middle of the 8, and the coil being cut open by a pair of shears along this mark, divides each turn of the coil into two perfect button shanks or eyes.
He is careful to turn the punch a very little round at every stroke.
A spring, i, acts against a pin fixed into thepunch e, for the purpose of bringing it back as the jaws open after forming a shank.
His was the mind that had directed every punch Frankie had ever thrown.
Punch up the men a little in the matter of cultivating cleanly habits, etc.
To all intents and purposes Tom, Dick, Harry and Fan are a punch and Judy show and you pull the strings.
The wine decanters made a few rounds of the table, but the hints for hot punch and toddy soon became clamorous.
You can punch a gent for cussing you, or stepping on your foot, or crowding you, or sneering at you, or talking behind your back, or for a thousand things.
He cast a wary eye on Ronicky; onepunch would settle that fellow.
Instead of getting off your ass, why did you not punch at the fellow, or at any rate use dreadful language, call him villain, and shout robbery?
Of wine and punch they are very liberal, for they get them cheap; but as there is no custom-house on the island, they can hardly be considered as smugglers.
Their punchis made without lemons, or any substitute.
Every man, perhaps, woman, begins the day with a dram; and the punch is made both at dinner and supper.
Once was quite enough; and perhaps after all it's harder work to bear a thing like this than to go over yonder and punch old Slegge's head and have it out.
But I should punch your head the same as I should any other fellow's--the same as I often have before.
Thou must be tried by court-martial, and the sentence of the court is a brimming glass of punch or a song.
A bowl of punch was on the table, and every man had his glass before him, and a pipe of tobacco in his hand.
A lucky punch on Luggy's proboscis drew blood, and when the big fellow sighted his own gore he ran away home.
If you or Jenkins want a punchin the jaw, I'll give it to you!
Working through the dinner from soup to fruit, the two skippers passed a jovial couple of hours, and when the punch came along, Judson filled his glass.
The holes are produced in the metal by forcing a steel punch through it; and this is accomplished without even heating the plate so as to soften the iron.
The punch is attached to the end of a powerful lever, the other end of the lever is raised by a cam, so as to depress the punch to do its work.
On the other hand, the distance through which the punch has to be moved is comparatively small.
This fly-wheel when rapidly revolving contains within it, in virtue of its motion, a large store of energy which has gradually accumulated during the time that the punchis not actually in action.
He acts like he was ambitious to do damage, but the thirdpunch leaves him on the grass.
Before I can call the round Curlylocks has put the steam into a jaw punch that sends Chester to the mat as hard as though he'd been dropped out of a window.
About all I got to show is a couple of punch distributors that's more or less educated, and a block that's set on some solid.
The board was cleared of the eatables, and the copious jugs of punch going their round; but the usual toast of the united healths of the happy pair could not be given, for one of them was absent.
Well, I told him straight that if he didn't back up plum five hundred feet I'd sure punch his frozen nose into ice-cream an' chocolate eclaires.
Two doctors from Dawson," Shorty blurted in, with a levity that brought a punch in the short ribs from Smoke's elbow.
You would still have that beautiful punch of yours, and there would be nobody to exercise it on.
A Violin Virtuoso--Superintendent of Police Kelso Presents a $500 Silver Punch Bowl to the Daughter of Boss Tweed--Paid for with Stolen Cash.
Tiffany's was then located down Broadway, and among other things on exhibition in the window was a large, handsome silver punch bowl.
Then as she left the street lamp behind her, the Punch grew taller, becoming in fact gigantic, filling the whole Boulevard, bobbing to and fro in such style that it seemed fated to smash its nose against the trees or the houses.
Madame Boche had decided that Pauline would enter a shop to learn how to punch designs on gold and silver.
And she could not help looking at her shadow; indeed, she waited for the gas-lamps, still watching the Punch as it bobbed about.
Bibi had a black eye; somepunch he had run up against the day before.
The punch was brewed in a jug, and tasted quite as good as usual.
It was on the morning of Christmas Eve that the china punch bowl was broken.
The very first play Lincoln made was a guard's back punch right at Rooney.
It was punch the line, and then punch the line some more, and during the first ten minutes of play the ball didn't move twenty yards either way from the centre of the field, with a row on all the time as to whose ball it ought to be.
Leather applique bag] A card punch will be needed to make a hole through the four pieces for the ribbon or cord which holds them together.
The punch and pearling knives are used in fine carved leather.
Take a stiletto, which is a little tool somewhat like a nail that is used in embroidery for piercing holes, and punch a hole on the line.
If mother has a card punch ask her to lend it to you and where the dots are make holes.
Now, holding these six envelopes in the case with bottom edges touching the space between the two cardboards, punch three holes through linen, cardboard, and envelopes.
A modelling tool] The punch is to make holes for rivets or through which cords or ribbons may be passed to connect two or more pieces of leather together as on a pad or book.
It was by no means a league of ascetics, who had resolved to mortify the flesh, as punch and tobacco were liberally used to stimulate the deliberations.
In 1750 kept by Weatherhead, being noted, said Goelet, as the best punch house in Boston.
But I'm like the Doctor in the Punchand Judy show--he thinks he's knocked me flat.
