After being fitted, they should be taken off during the process of finishing the work.
This lattice-work, although each strip is so slight, will give the frame great stiffness and strength.
For oil for finishing and painting, see Finishing and Painting.
Weather-dried timber is usually somewhat darkened from exposure, but kiln-drying lightens the colour of some woods.
But when he took the billets in his hand, he sort o' give 'em a squint as if he knew all about it Who learned him?
Jack Striker is at the wheel; and as the sea is smooth he finds it easy steering, having little to do but keep the barque steady by taking an occasional squint at the compass-card.
He rolled his eyes in a characteristicsquint of scrutiny toward the new recruit.
Stransky grinned and his deep-set eyes turned inward with a squint of knowing satisfaction at the bony bridge of his nose.
He waved a finger at her and grinned and drew his eyes together in a squint at the bridge of his nose, making a funny face that brought a laugh.
First squint I took I thought somebody'd been settin' out a new kind of shrubbery, and then I sized it up for a lot of umbrella jars that had been dumped there.
I took just one squint at the mob and felt a chill down my spine.
Way over behind the trees you can get a squint at the chimney tops, and you know that underneath is a little cottage about the size of the Grand Central station.
They don't squint too close at a title in that crowd, you know.
And if you had any doubts as to whether or no she had the goods, all you had to do was to squint at the big amethyst in the handle of the gold lorgnette she wore around her neck.
Would the honorable gentleman come and take a squint at Rajah?
Man can only look at it, lift it, rap it, cut into it, and squint at it through a magnifying glass.
So, as Nancy took an anxious squintout of doors at about six o'clock on that important morning, (and what young girl could go on, calmly snoozing on such a day?
I was just climbing up to the top of the fence to get a squint at that contraption you've built.
There won't be time to lay the flooring," Reade objected, taking a hurried squint at the now more threatening sky.
There is a squint in one of the piers, and a piscina in the chancel.
Among other features deserving notice are (1) thesquint in the N.
The church is not particularly noteworthy except for the odd device of avoiding a squint by an extension of the arcading.
The squint is peculiar, and there is an early font under the belfry.
It was Brother Jack himself who showed me that the way to squint is to look at both sides of your nose.
Well, I'd like to have a closer squint at it," declared Rawlins.
We'll have to go up and take a squint now," declared Rawlins a moment later.
Come on, boys, and have a squintthrough the periscope.
He could not help thinking how uncanny the man's squint eyes looked under its straight outstanding visor.
All had their peculiarsquint of eye or position or motion which meant "Done!
Theroulde smells danger at all times; and Sebastian thinks, to speak Arabic is to squint toward perdition.
They desired a blind man to succeed him, for the minaret is so high those with eyes can peer into the vizier's harem court and squint at his women.
There was the ticket, all right, with the name wrote on it, and it didn't need but one squint at the pasteboard for me to break into a cold sweat.
It near blinded him the first squint he got of them big chunks of gold.
I jist had a squint of the baste sneakin' along through the wather.
Let's chuck it, an' see wot terms we can make with Squint Eye.
Swell chanct I'd have wit him an' Squint Eye holdin' court over me.
The work of awakening the balance of the party required but a few minutes and when the plan was explained to them, all seemed delighted with the prospect of discomfiting Skipper Simms and Squint Eye.
Hatch was silent while the scientist continued to squint at the ceiling.
The Thinking Machine dropped his eyes a moment to squint at the reporter.
That imperturbable gentleman did not alter his position in the slightest, nor did he change the steady, upward squint of his eyes.
This first impression was strengthened when The Thinking Machine introduced Doctor Walpole with an ostentatious squint at Mr. Mallory.
Now The Thinking Machine sat in a huge chair in his reception-room with long, slender fingers pressed tip to tip and squint eyes turned upward.
In fact, the very worst forms of squint I have ever witnessed were in persons of this description.
The affected organ may be turned inwards or outwards, upwards or downwards, according to the muscle upon the derangement of which the squint depends.
You take a squintat the tank and see if we have enough gas to take us on.
I took a squint at the place this mornin', an' it's like taking candy from a baby.
Well Elder you said to tell you when I found a Leadin; well sir I have, and it seems to squint like the Lord was showin me His hand.
Pa said he was right, things did appear to squint that way a mite.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squint" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
