There was an advantage in this arrangement, for where the birch-bark can only be obtained in small flakes, a great number of seams is a necessary consequence, and then it is extremely difficult to keep the canoe from leaking.
The moment it becomes wet it is liable to stretch, so that the seams would open and the canoe get filled with water.
The cape of the shirt was tastefully fringed, and so was the skirt as well as the seams of the mocassins.
Dark pines crest the heights around, and landslips score their flanks with white seams below; while streaks of snow remain throughout the month at 9000 feet above; and everywhere silvery torrents leap down to the Lachen and Lachoong.
In certain localities, beds or narrow seams of pure felspathic clay and layers of vegetable matter occur in it, probably wholly due to local causes.
The number of strata was very great, and only a few inches or even lines thick: they presented all varieties of jasper, hornstone, and quartz of numerous colours, with occasional seams of porphyry or breccia.
Descending, the rocks became more micaceous, with broadseams of pipe-clay, originating in decomposed beds of felspathic gneiss: the natives used this to whitewash and mortar their temples.
The limestone rock was chiefly a blue pisolite conglomerate, with veins and crystals of white carbonate of lime, seams of shale, and iron pyrites.
Below this, beds of saccharine quartz, with seams of mica, dip north-north-west 20 degrees.
It’s most confusing, the way some patterns allow seams and some don’t.
The men were cooking in their mess tins, some were playing cards, and some were examining the seams of their shirts.
On my way over to them the next morning, I found in a lonely part of a trench a man who had taken off his shirt and was examining the seams of it with interest.
It is very useful to hold pins and needles, while sewing, and to fasten long seams when basting and sewing.
Wigan is situated on a part of the Lancashire coal-fields which contains some of the richest and most valuable seams of coal to be found in Lancashire; but down to 1720 the only means of distributing this coal was by cart or packhorse.
The broadest land that grows Is not so ample as the breast These emerald seams enclose.
Use stout twine for these seams at the eaves, and take only three to four stitches to the inch.
The seams should be bound with stout tape, and the sides and ends "gathered" considerably in sewing them to the top.
Tents made of heavy drilling were also furnished to the troops, the dimensions of which varied a trifle from those here given: they had the disadvantage of two seamsinstead of one.
If you wear drawers, better turn them inside out, so that the seams may not chafe you.
Sew on facings at the corners and seamsas in the army shelter, and also on the middle of the bottom of the end-pieces; and put loops of small rope or a foot or two of stout cord through all of these facings, for the tent-pins.
There is a great difference of opinion as to the exact effect of hair-line seams on the service of an aviation engine crankshaft.
Steel which is heated quickly and forging begun before uniform heat has penetrated to its center will open up seams because the cooler central portion is not able to flow with the hot metal surrounding it.
A number of tests have been made on forging bars to determine the depths at which hair-line seams are found, and many cases came up in which hair-line seams were found 3/8 in.
When customers complain about seams and cracks, in 9 cases out of 10, this has been caused by too low a forging heat, and when the blacksmith complains about tools cracking, it is necessary to read this paragraph to him.
This heat also causes blanks with seams or slight flaws to open up in quenching, making detection of defective blanks very easy.
Hair-line seams are caused by small non-metallic inclusions in the steel.
This means that in case a crankshaft does not show hair-line seams on the ground surface this is no indication that it is free from such a defect.
It is the opinion of many that hair-line seams do not in any way affect the endurance of a crankshaft in service, provided they are parallel to the grain of the steel and do not occur on a fillet.
The question of hair-line seams has been discussed to greater length by engineers and metallurgists during the war than any other single question.
One of the main reasons why the comparatively mild analysis nickel-chromium steel was used was due to the very few hair-line seams present in it.
The ball makers have an interesting method of testing stock for seams which do not show in the rod or wire.
It was found that hair-line seams occur generally on high nickel-chromium steels.
When dried it becomes excessively hard; it never starts, and the seams thus secured are perfectly safe and water-tight.
Where thirty or forty seams of coal have been found one below another, we have evidence of land and water thus changing places many times.
The great difficulty in working coal, should these upper seams fail, is not only the increase of cost in sinking further down, but the increased heat to be worked in.
The boat was now completed, except what was in fact the most difficult part,--the making her seams secure.
The seams of the lower series are the best, and some of these at Sanktoria, near the Barakar river, are fairly good for coke and gas.
The average thickness of theseams worked is from 12 to 18 ft.
O'erstrained, the vessel splits; and through her seams In many a part the hostile water streams.
The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.
To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut; to cut open.
It is used in calking the seamsof ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc.
To open (the seamsof a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.
The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish theseams after the oakum has been driven in.
The rain trickled through the seams of the cabin roof on to my collections, the late hot weather having warped the boards, and it gave me immense trouble to secure them in the midst of the confusion.
We were about twenty persons in all, and the boat was an old rickety affair with the gaping seams rudely stuffed with tow and pitch.
As the year's work progresses compare the different seams and teach when, where and why these various seams are used in garment making.
Seam up the outside, slip it over the case, arranging the seams on opposite sides to avoid the possibility of powder sifting through.
The closed or finishedseams are known as the French Fell, French Seam, Hemmed Seam, Flannel Seam and the Bound Seam.
Running is used for seams that do not require great strength, and also for tucking.
Finish all seams with the French seam except where the ends of the ruffle are joined with the hemmed seam.
Trim the seams smooth, open and baste flat to the cloth.
BOUND SEAM: Seams may be bound with the two parts of the seam together, or they may be pressed open and bound separately.
An even basting is used on hems, seams of garments, or wherever two pieces of cloth are to be held firmly together.
Those known as the raw seams may be joined by stitching, half-back stitching, overhanding or the combination stitch.
Uneven basting is used where very careful basting is unnecessary, as in the seams of skirts, or in working on a material that clings together, as a guide for stitching.
Take care to see that you have the skirt placed so that there is an even fold at centre back and front, and the side seams back one another, then lay on your pattern.
When all the padded pieces are sewn together, a pretty effect is obtained by going over all the seams with black cotton in feather-stitch.
Press both seams out flat, place opposite to each other and tack the lining along the top edge to the check material.
In making a little magyar overall, like that illustrated, for instance, the side seams and opening may be sewn with a machine, the hems and neck prepared as if for machining, and then the decoration applied.
Before attaching the lid, the seams and edges are finished off.
It is customary, however, to punch the holes for ordinary stationary boilers, and it is with seams having punched holes therefore that we have at present to deal.
Steel piston rods wear better than those of wrought iron, being free from scaly seams which are apt to cut the packing and cause the rod to wear in grooves.
In setting "Standard" boilers, the side walls should be so built that the longitudinalseams of the shell will be protected from the fire.
If wrought-iron cuttings break off in short pieces it may occur from black seams in the work, but if they break off short and show no tendency to coil, the tool has too little rake.
In such a case as this an hydraulic test sufficient to prove the tightness of the seams and joints may, perhaps, be all that is absolutely essential.
We may now consider the circumferential seams of the boilers for stationary engines, such boilers sometimes being of great length in proportion to the diameter.
This lifting and falling may occur even though the work be true, and the cut therefore of even depth all around the work, because of hard seams or spots in the metal.
The circumferential seams are lapped and treble riveted.
Monkey was silent, and studied the seams in the deck.
I didn't look for him," replied the captain, studying the seams in the deck.
It is not so much for the reason that screwing up the face traces lines and seams in the skin as it is because the fretting upsets the stomach.
I'd rather see a woman in a last winter's coat with theseams shiny than look upon a foolish but radiant creature in a bit of a cape that would keep her about as warm as would two good-sized cobwebs stitched together.
In the Grand Lake carboniferous area 15 distinctseams were discovered, also ranging from a few inches to several feet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seams" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
