The rope is tied to a stick eighteen inches long, or to a bunch of sticks, or to a bunch of brush, or to a stone; and this buried a foot and a half or two feet, and the earth or sand tamped upon it.
Then the hole was lined with dry sticks or with blankets, the pelts or supplies were packed inside, and covered with buffalo robe or tarpaulin; and the earth was tamped in solidly.
When the sand istamped in and the plug removed, it leaves a gate for the metal.
When the ground has been filled in and tamped hard, the cross brace should be bolted in position with its lower edge resting on the ground and connecting the two posts.
These are nearly filled with crushed ore, which is likewise covered with ashes to a depth of two digits and tamped in.
First a small pit is dug in the dry ground; into this pulverised charcoal is thrown and tamped in, and then it is dried with burning charcoal.
When the powder has been made up and moistened with water, a little is thrown into the earthenware test and tamped with a wooden pestle.
It was then packed together by being tamped and rolled, and a thin covering of the tarred sand placed upon the top, forming a smooth, hard surface.
The concrete was then filled in upon the floor timbers, and thoroughly tamped and rolled out to the level of the top of the floor timbers.
The bed is now firmed down according to the custom of the operator, either tamped down with some instrument very firmly, or by others, with the back of the fork or other similar instrument, the bed is made firm, but not quite so hard.
Another layer of material is distributed over this, and tamped and tramped down in a similar manner.
A layer of material is distributed over the bottom and then tampeddown by striking with the back of the fork, as shown in Fig.
After several inches have been distributed in this way and tamped down with the back of the fork, the operator tramps over the material with his feet and presses it down more firmly.
At the end, Carleton tamped down the dottle in the bowl of his pipe thoughtfully with his forefinger--and glanced at Donkin.
Carleton tamped down the dottle in his pipe with his forefinger musingly.
It was a building of artless construction, consisting of little but a roof supported by wooden posts, roughly hewn from date trees: round the tamped earthen floor ran a raised bench of unbaked brick, forming a diwan for mats and sleeping-rugs.
So I put in the powder and fuses, tamped 'em down and then I thinks thinks I, that there's somebody moving around in the drift.
Ten holes drilled six feet into the rock and tamped with double charges of dynamite.
One after another he pressed the dynamite charges tight into the drill holes and tamped them with muck wrapped in a newspaper that he dragged from his hip pocket.
As soon as ruts or holes appear on the surface some of this good fresh material should be added and tamped into position or kept raked smooth until properly consolidated.
The work went on, until presently Tom declared that they had gone deep enough, and while we others cleared away the tools, Connor himself loaded and tamped the hole.
The second hole was loaded and tamped by Joe, under Tom's supervision; after which my partner once more took the sledge, while I turned drill again.
The broken spawn was then sown in the drills and covered with a layer of loam one and one-half to two inches deep, which was tamped slightly.
When finished the surface was tamped gently with a tamper with a face of pine plank sixteen inches long by twelve inches wide.
For floors of cellars or barns, the dirt should be evened off and tamped and then the cement concrete should be spread evenly over it, and tampedjust enough to bring the water to the surface.
Silva, in a little bungalow of bamboo and matting, paved with tamped earth and old white ostreoid shells, a kind of Mya, relished by the natives but not eaten by Europeans.
Many holes had been drilled in the face of the cliff of hard rock, and the charges tamped in.
Holes were drilled in the face of the rock, and several charges of the new explosive tamped in.
The mixture was then shoveled into the mold, no special face mixture being used, so as to about half fill it, and was then tamped by two men, one standing on each side of the machine.
Pierson, remarks: "In work of this kind it is very important to have the centering absolutely rigid so it will not spring when concrete is being tamped against it and thus weaken the cohesion of the concrete.
A gang of 30 men mixed, wheeled, shoveled and tamped the concrete, attended to the plates, cleaning and greasing them, etc.
Two gangs were employed in assembling forms and a portion of the men in each gang also shaped and placed the reinforcement and placed and tamped the concrete in the forms so that no exact division of labor is possible.
The concrete was tamped behind the brick lining as the latter was built up by the mason.
The iron plates were next drawn by handles attached to them, and the mortar and concrete tamped together before either had set.
Altogether three layers of material were so placed and tamped and then a shovelful of sand and cement mixture was spread over the top to permit an even "strike-off.
Piles were driven in the bottom and their heads cut to level and filled around with tamped cinders.
This man tamped the concrete which was emptied from the buckets by a man on the scaffolding.
The surface facing for these columns was bird's-eye gravel and cement, with very little sand, mixed very dry and placed and tamped with the coarse concrete backing.
There was dynamite tamped in among the rocks, and but for the stamping out of the fuse the tunnel never would have carried any more water to Flume Valley, and those in it might never have come out.
They followed it up, and discovered a hidden mine of explosives, tamped down into a hole that had been drilled in the rocky floor.
The place to be patched is carefully cleaned, coated with bituminous binder and stone chips and tamped until dense and solid.
The wearing surface mixture is then prepared and tamped or rolled into place.
The concrete is spread to the proper thickness andtamped either by hand or by machinery.
The pipe should be carefully laid on a firm earth bed with earth carefully back-filled and tamped around the pipe.
The stones are carefully tamped to place and covered with chips which are also tamped.
There is no doubt it was a favourite spot, for the village common was well tampedand adapted for sport, gossip, and meetings.
It was Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July crowded into the compass of one day--a whole year of anticipation packed in and tamped down into twenty-four hours of joyous realization.
Then he put in the powder and tamped and tamped it down, but maybe he tamped it a little too hard, for the blast went off and he went up into the air, and we watched him.
The posts should be set at least 3' in the ground, and the earth well tamped around them with a pointed bar or stick.
The post should be set in the ground at least 3' and the earth well tamped down around it with a pointed bar or stick.
Contrary to what one might naturally think, the earth can be tamped more compactly with a bar or stick than with a heavy joist.
The posts should reach 3' or more below ground, both on account of the frost and to give increased steadiness, and the earth should be thoroughly tamped down around them with a sharp-pointed bar or stick.
Irish thoughtfully tamped his pipe-bowl, and the flare of the match between his cupped palms brought out his honest features distinctly in the darkness.
Then, calmly selecting a dry twig from the pile of firewood, thrust the end through a hole in the broken stove, and after much noisy puffing at length succeeded in igniting the tightly tamped tobacco in his pipe-bowl.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tamped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
