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Example sentences for "sheet iron"

  • It is fired from, and exhibited with, a funnel of tin, or sheet iron, having a hole at the apex of the cone.

  • Instead of the furniture, or garnishing pot and head, a conical head of sheet iron is substituted, in which several holes are made to suffer the composition it contains to burn more readily.

  • To the upper part of this vessel a cover of sheet iron, B, is adapted, which is fixed with bolts.

  • The mouth of the cylinder is constructed usually of sheet iron.

  • A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes.

  • In the oven of Aunt Sarah's range was always to be found a piece of sheet iron 17 inches in length by 16 inches in width.

  • Drop from a teaspoon on to flat pan or sheet iron, not too close together, as they spread.

  • I think I improved on Frau Schmidt's cake tins, as hers were all separate, I ordered twelve tins, similar to hers, to be fastened to a piece of sheet iron.

  • Another form of machine comprises a perforated cylinder of sheet iron, revolving in a tank of water.

  • This vessel is commonly in the form of a drum of sheet iron, revolving at a very slow speed.

  • A better form of cleaner than either of those consists of an inclined trough in which a spiral feeding screw of sheet iron rotates.

  • The vessels, 1, 2, 3 and 4 are of wood or sheet iron.

  • I wanted to plunge my eyes through the lounge window and into these Atlantic waters; but the panels were hermetically sealed, and a mantle of sheet iron separated me from this ocean with which I was still unfamiliar.

  • I heard its teeth grind on sheet iron, and the dugong disappeared, taking our harpoon along with it.

  • Why am I chained to this hunk of sheet iron!

  • A plate of sheet iron, one-tenth of an inch in thickness, is perforated with 1/4-inch holes one inch apart.

  • For the march you will need a stove of sheet iron.

  • About the simplest, smallest, and cheapest thing is a round-cornered box made of sheet iron, eighteen to twenty-four inches long and nine to twelve inches high.

  • Defn: Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue.

  • Russia iron, a kind of sheet iron made in Russia, having a lustrous blue-black surface.

  • Coffee in England is roasted in an iron pan or hollow cylinder made of sheet iron; and then is pounded in a mortar, or ground in a hand-mill.

  • Instead of a cylinder in which to roast his coffee, he had perched on a sheet-iron frame a hollow round ball made of sheet iron.

  • It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of sheet iron, with a hood, which rose above a neighboring roof.

  • To make plates or dishes of sheet iron or other metal, cut out a disc or oval, of the size you wish, and then draw a line parallel to the edge all round it (Fig.

  • A large piece of sheet iron, painted over with a mixture of pipeclay or whitening and water, should, in the absence of one of Government pattern, be made use of.

  • The window frames and sashes are made of sheet iron.

  • A very even plate of sheet iron is taken and placed horizontally upon two supports.

  • First a large piece of sheet iron is shaken, which produces an imitation of sharp, rattling thunder.

  • Just off the government reserve was a tent with a sheet iron roof.

  • This was a sad-looking vehicle of an early vintage, held together by binding wire and bits of sheet iron.

  • The engineer and fireman were loading sheet iron on the other end.

  • He was directed to a tent with a sheet iron roof.

  • Holder for Loose Window Glass [Illustration] When the putty becomes loose and the glazing points work out on window glass, temporary repairs may be made by using a small piece of tin or sheet iron bent as shown in the sketch.

  • The asbestos inclosing the heating wires is covered with a thin piece of sheet iron, which is made to fit tightly over the bottom and sides.

  • Cut from a piece of sheet iron, about 1/16 in.

  • These pieces of copper should be insulated from the piece of sheet iron, and there should be a small screw in one end of each and a small binding post mounted on the other end.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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