After cutting several dozens by these, she took smaller sticks and cut the rails or pins in the same manner; these she then tapered at both ends and laid aside.
Her next operation was the boring of back and front legs for the insertion of rails; this she accomplished with a large bradawl; subsequently she fitted the tapered pieces into the holes, and drove up the whole tight by means of a hammer.
A gypsy would accomplish this by burning out the holes with the tapered end of the crane brought to a red heat.
Sautee noted the slim, tapered right hand of the man across the table from him, the clear, gray eyes, the unmistakable poise of a man who is absolutely and utterly confident and sure of himself.
Shaped over-all by pecking, forming a slightly tapered cylinder, somewhat bulbed at either extremity.
The specimen is indented at even intervals, resembling somewhat a perforated metal tapered gear or a fish vertebra.
In a piece which is to be united to another by a scarf joint, the part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or notched so as to be thinner than the rest of the piece.
The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
One end of the spring should be tapered off as shown in Fig.
The point C is the end that is tapered off, and the platinum wire is fixed at that point; the spring should extend about 1-1/4 inch beyond the armature at the other end.
Holland's Cobweb Gut sold in three-yard Tapered Casts, or in Hanks.
The gut or casting line should be moderately stout at the upper part, and tapered down to the point, and if stained of a dull blue or green colour is less likely to be seen than when quite white.
The females are symmetrically formed, with beautifully tapered limbs, full busts, pleasing features, embellished with white and evenly set teeth.
The daggers used in battle are made to stab with either end, having three, four or five inches above the hand tapered to a sharp point; but the upper part of those used in the Sound and River is excurvated.
The turbine and generator spindles A and B, respectively, are coned at the ends, and upon thesetapered portions are shrunk circular heads C and D having teeth upon their outer circumferences.
In the hands of a man who knows what he is doing and how to do it, a tapered pine stick will give as satisfactory results as the most elaborate set of hardened and ground clearance gages.
The third kind of soldier was represented in the spectacle of termites with heads that were huge and conical, resembling bungs, or the tapered cylindrical corks with which one plugs a bottle.
And like a zeppelin--a blunt, bloated zeppelin--the object was circular and tapered at both ends.
The best known correction is the diminution in diameter or taper, and the entasis or convex curve of the tapered outline of the shaft of the column.
The walls of the propylons tapered from the base towards the top, and the same thing sometimes occurred in other walls.
These burials were extended with an east-west orientation corresponding to the axis of the fissure; the foot bones were to the west, at the mouth of the cave, and the crania were in the tapered interior.
There is also a round, sharply pointed, and taperedfragment of hardwood with a length of 8.
Wherever the young trees are at all sheltered, they grow up straight and arrowy, with delicately tapered bole, and ascending branches terminated with glossy, bottle-brush tassels.
In youth, say up to the age of seventy or eighty years, no other tree forms so strictly tapered a cone from top to bottom.
The noses are all pierced and when they are dressed they have a long tapered piece of white shell or wampum put through the nose, Those Shells are about 2 inches in length.
Tapered iron is a form to which machinery has been thought inapplicable, and only to be produced by hand-labour.
They can be tapered slightly, as in the preceding case.
After being squared and cut to a length they should be tapered toward the bottom by planing down two opposite sides and then the other two.
If wide they can be tapered at the edges, and if narrow, the edges should be rounded (Fig.
The legs can be round or six-sided and should be tapered (see Rounding-sticks).
If they are tapered a little in thickness for 12" or 15" at the forward end they can be bent more easily, but do not shave them down too much (see Plane and Drawshave).
They can be used simply as pins or in many cases can be split and wedged, though the holes must be tapered with a gouge if wedges of much thickness are to be used (Fig.
The posts should be of good thickness at the ground, but can be tapered toward the top, on the outside, to the thickness of the bars.
The thorax agrees in colour with the fore wings; the tapered body has a broad grey stripe, enclosing a central black line along the back, broad red and black and narrow white bands on each side (Plate 10).
The bow itself is taperedfrom the middle outwards just like any other bow.
If a bottle without a tapered neck is to be employed, it is as well to do the preliminary grinding by means of a cone turned up from a bit of cast iron.
His limbs tapered delicately, but the muscles were round and full of strength.
The batter strikes this tapered end so that it will fly up, and then bats it as in baseball.
In the centre of the circle is placed a stick about four or six inches long, tapered to one end.
It is easier to repair work that has tapered bolts than work that has straight bolts.
The part b of the centre punch is tapered so as to obstruct the vision as little as possible, while it is made hexagon or octagon at the upper end to afford a better grip.
The Baldwin Works use tapered bolts wherever they are body bound bolts.
The end of the thread is tapered off as shown, to enable the end of the tap to enter the hole, and as it is rotated and the nut N held stationary, the teeth cut grooves as the tap winds through, thus forming the thread.
Two of the interior faces are tapered inwards to the same angle as the back of the wedges or clips a a', which are perfectly smooth and free to slide upon the inclined or tapered surfaces of the shackles.
Hand-files are taperedin thickness from their middle towards both the point and the tang, and are, therefore, well curved or bellied on each side.
The question of tapered bolts involves at once this difficulty: that we have to drill a straight hole, then the tapered reamer must take out all the metal that must be removed in order to convert a straight into a tapered hole.
Having got this tapered plug, you then must have the means of making the bolts commercially accurate in the shop.
Pillar files are tapered in thickness from the middle to each end; the width is nearly parallel, and one of the edges is left safe.
Each tap is made taper for a distance of two or three threads only, and is hardened at this tapered end, but left soft for the remainder of its length.
Midway along her length her diametertapered abruptly, tapered again beyond the three-quarters point.
Crag fastened his eyes on the nose of Red Dog, a tapered indistinct silhouette.
Midway where the hull tapered was a joint, the separation point between the first and second stages.
All at once, it seemed, Drone Charlie was hanging high in the sky, a tapered needle miraculously suspended in the heavens.
The third stage was little more than a space cabin riding between the tapered nose cone and a single relatively low-thrust engine.
Shoulders are usually horizontal, but may be tapered or inversely tapered with short barbs.
Shoulders are narrow and are usually taperedbut may be straight.
Shoulders are usually inversely taperedbut may be tapered or, occasionally, horizontal.
The shoulders are inversely tapered with narrow barbs that may be expanded, especially on examples with recurvate blade edges.
Shoulders are usually tapered but may be straight.
Shoulders are usually tapered or, rarely, horizontal and are occasionally rounded.
Shoulders are usually tapered but may be barbed or rarely horizontal.
The narrow shoulders are usually inverselytapered but may be horizontal.
The shoulders are usually straight on narrow-notched examples and inversely tapered on the broader-notched examples.
Shoulders are narrow, usually horizontal but may be inversely tapered and occasionally expanded.
Shoulders are narrow and tapered and may be expanded.
The shoulders are usually inversely taperedand the barbs usually expanded.
The shoulders are usually tapered and may be asymmetrical.
If the shaft tapered upward at a uniform rate, it would have the form of a truncated cone.
In the decoration of this facade rosettes and running spirals played a conspicuous part, and on either side of the doorway stood a column which tapered downwards and was ornamented with spirals arranged in zigzag bands.
Experts always true springs after they have been staked to the balance and a light weight calipers tapered on one end to a smaller diameter than the collet is used for spinning the balance, making observations, and corrections.
It may be level, but a tapered line is better for casting, and is also better adapted for the delicate leader that must be employed.
A level line will answer, but a tapered one is better adapted for long casts.
As just mentioned, they are tied directly to the snell on tapered hooks, or made with a small gut loop at the head of the fly, which is much the best way.
A tapered leader six feet long is best, but should not be shorter than four feet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tapered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
