The failure to make the keystones sufficiently large, and the consequent necessity for these supplementary wedges may be due to the architects not having allowed for the shrinkage of the bricks.
Stone obelisks, colossal statues of bulls and lions, and last but far from least the bas-reliefs which decorated the walls of the royal palaces were generally covered with an inscription, the wedges sometimes measuring as much as two inches.
After having been placed on the foundation and roughly trimmed with respect to the transmission devices, the engine is carefully leveled by means of hardwood wedges driven under the base.
It may happen that the wedges will be loosened, will move out, and will grind the cylinder, causing injuries that cannot be detected before it is too late.
The use of wedges or of clamping-screws, introduced from without the piston to hold the pin, should be avoided.
The cuneiform characters had been classified and named; they had also been arranged according to the number and position of the separate wedges of which they consisted.
As time went on, the characters were more and more simplified, the number of wedges of which they consisted being reduced and only so many left as served to distinguish one sign from another.
If he hammered three or four of those wedges clear it would only need a bang on another one to give the river its way," Gillow said excitedly.
Meantime, rouse the maintenance foreman, and, if anywedges have worked loose, let him drive them home.
There wouldn't be much of the boring machines or dam framing left if the chains pulled those wedges out.
This fact is taken advantage of in wetting wooden wedges to split some kinds of soft stone.
Six stout wedges of chilled iron, and a heavy maul to hammer them with, were to be used for the splitting up of the big trees into smaller sections.
Wooden wedges met the wants of many people in those primitive parts, at times, and the man who had a good set of iron wedges and a powerful maul was regarded with envy.
If, instead of dew and sunshine, the only instruments I am to use are the lightning and the frost, then their forked tongues and crystal wedges shall still work out my laws of tender line.
It was one of the entering wedges to the Revolution that made an awful opening in the monarchical mass that was ultimately split into atoms and annihilated by the wedges and malls of the hard-fisted sons of America.
This was one of the entering wedges of the Revolution.
With four others he proceeded under her stern in the night--drove several wedges between the rudder and hull which placed her at the mercy of the wind--she drifted on shore and was easily captured the next morning.
Two strings, uplifted from the surface about 4 centimeters apart, and held in an elevated position and at their requisite tension by little wooden wedges placed underneath, form the strings.
The tuning is regulated by the size of the little wedges which impart greater or lesser tension as desired.
Five small cylindrical strips are cut along the surface and small wedges of wood are inserted under them at the ends to stretch them and retain them in an elevated position.
Even when the recess was kept free and clear of sand, the enormous pressure exerted by the wooden wedges broke the iron at A, although an extra thickness was given to that 217 part of the section.
N is a tappet or thin flat bar attached to the main lever, and which works backwards or forwards between the wedges in the wedge frame O.
But if the log is a long one he must lengthen the crack or seam by driving other wedges or gluts (Fig.
The thick ends of the wedges along the line of contact usually touch each other.
Into this, along the northern portion of the Catoctin Belt, are intercalated considerable wedges or lenses of limestone conglomerate.
The conglomerate wedges are collected along the west side of the Newark Belt and in contact usually with the Weverton sandstone.
The conglomerate occurs, as has been said, in lenses or wedges in the sandstone ranging from 1 foot to 500 feet in thickness, or possibly even greater.
The arrangement of the wedges is very instructive indeed.
It drove thewedges and gluts which opened other timbers.
Axes, crosscut saws, mauls, and wedges were the means of manufacture.
They went into the woods with ax, maul, mattock, wedgesand gluts, and made fields and fenced them.
We've served the rudder-head with the half-inch, and drivenwedges inside the iron all round.
The iron looked taut, the wedges looked unchanged, the helmsman found the wheel worked as well as ever.
The carpenter had not been able to drive all the wedges fully home, nor had he cut them off level with the rudder-cap.
With the lashing and the wedges I don't expect anything will stir, and I have no fear of the iron.
When the carpenter had driven in ten wedges he paused a moment, asked the captain to look, and said: "What do you think of it now, captain?
But just as he got under the second one the creamy foam-mantled water wedges dashed through it, and, striking him, turned him round and round in the water, and drove him a long way out of his course.
When the tide was at the full, one man hauled at the tackle, two men swung at the ends of the levers, and Jack hammered home the wedges at each heave and pull; thus securing every inch of movement.
Several wedges were inserted under the vessel's side, and driven home.
She could hardly have been more dismayed if one of Caesar's cunei, or wedges of soldiers, had made a charge against her.
Twenty years after you have dismissed a thought, it suddenly wedges up to you through the press, as if it had been steadily galloping round and round all that time without a rider.
Very few cases of the kind, however, show such determination and skill, and thus almost the first robbery in which wedges were used in safe-breaking must rank as one of the most remarkable of our times.
The projection on the left side, as the fastener is moved, comes over the opening and wedges fast any instrument introduced from the outside for the purpose of forcing back the catch.
The sound of hammering the wedges is deadened by a leather pad being put under the hammer, so that it becomes almost a silent operation.
The employment of wedges for forcing open safes was then quite novel, and therefore the many improvements suggested or patented were intended chiefly to baffle this new mode of attack.
The pots he put under the decks, and the wedges of iron he laid on the bottom of the ship after he had cast out the stones and shingle which till then had been our ballast.
Where we came out with wedges of iron under the rowers' feet we returned with wedges of gold hidden beneath planks.
After the spur, corn," said De Aquila, and he threw Fulke three wedges of gold that he had taken from our little chest by the bedplace.
At night men came down with loaded mules, and Witta exchanged amber out of the North against little wedges of iron and packets of beads in earthen pots.
Also he saw a number of huge, hardwood wedges lying on the ground, and beside them two heavy wooden mauls.
The great wedges were placed in position, and the heavy stroke of one of the mauls resounded through the valley.
Sometimes they split the trees with wedgesso as to make thick slabs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wedges" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
