With fresh timbers he was bolting, lashing, and wedging Number Three hatch into some sort of tightness.
Then he asked permission to borrow one of my books, and, clinging to my bunk, selected Buchner's Force and Matter from my shelf, carefully wedging the empty space with the doubled magazine I use for that purpose.
My only comfort was achieved by taking to my bunk and wedging myself with pillows buttressed against the bunk's sides by empty soap-boxes which Wada arranged.
I found him hovering about my luggage, wedging my dressing-case securely upright by means of my little automatic rifle.
This wedging crib must be 10 inches in the bed, and 6 inches deep.
On this the wedging crib d is applied, and neatly jointed in the radius-line of the pit, each segment being drawn exactly to the circle: and at each of its segments sheeting deal is inserted.
By sloping back the edges of the fissures, and wedging back from the face of the stone, it is not liable to burst or crack off in the operation, as took place in the old way, of driving in the wedge directly.
The flange for the wedgingjoint is best turned inwards.
Richard Prosser, July, 1831, for making tacks for ornamental furniture, by soldering or wedging the spike into the head.
To make room for the lower wedging crib, the recess is excavated a few inches wider, as at c; and from b to c, sheeting deals are laid all round the circle, or a thin stratum of oakum is introduced.
A wedging crib is fixed at the bottom, and the segments are built up regularly with joints like ashler-work.
Safety appliances for arresting the descent of mine cages, in the event of the rope breaking, have hitherto depended upon the entrance of claws into the guides, or the clipping of the latter, or the wedging of the cage between the guides.
Possibly, however, he merely laid it down withoutwedging it, but I cannot tell, and it is very difficult to get close enough to see just what these birds really do when they feed.
The tubbing, having been passed down the shaft in the manner described, no wedging behind, or other modes of consolidating it in the shaft, have been carried out.
Another wooden crib is then placed on the top of this brickwork, and above this, two cast-iron segmental wedging cribs with a broad bed also wedged perfectly tight.
The connection between each ring of tubbing is so carefully made, that the repeated wedging of the joints, as in the ordinary system, is rendered unnecessary.
To give the crib a firm and secure position, it is tightly wedged with wood, both behind and between the joints; the tubbing is then built upon it to the next wedging crib, which rests upon a bell-shaped section of rock.
The continual pumping, the placing of cribs, and the fixing of the tubbing are proceeded with till the lowest feeder is reached, when a hard bed is sought for on which to fix the lowest wedging crib.
In all cases the water has to be pumped out before the wedging crib, which forms the foundation of each set of tubbing, can be placed.
The extraction of the water from the pits, and the placing of the wedging cribs, or "faux cuvelage," below the moss box.
Another expedient to effect this is to have a valve, working upwards, placed in the wedging crib, Fig.
The wedging crib, which usually consists of segments about 4 feet long by 6 inches high by 14 inches wide, is then placed on the bed.
The coal is first cut to the top of the slipper coal from below, after which the upper portion is either broken down by wedging or falls of itself.
A method of wedging down coal sufficiently perfected to be of general application would add greatly to the security of colliers.
Eva was wedgingher laptop under the left-hand G-seat.
He rammed his shoulder against the revolving door, closing it and wedging the gun inside.
The backward dislocation is the most common, and results from extreme plantar flexion of the foot, as from a fall backwards while the foot is fixed, wedging the talus between the tibia and fibula.
Bougies are to be employed with great care, as there is a danger of pushing the foreign body farther down, or of wedging it more firmly in the œsophagus, and the information obtained is often misleading.
The blade, in such cases, is secured by wedging it tightly, with sometimes the addition of a lashing of thong through a hole in the haft and round the heel of the blade.
They accordingly set to with a will, and very soon the yard resounded with the harsh rasping of saws and the heavy blows of mauls wedging the timbers into their places.
Wedging the mackerel's head between his knees, he bent its body to a curve, scraped off the scales near its tail, and cut a fresh lask from the living fish.
Last summer she reclaimed from the roadway a tiny triangular garden, about five inches long in the sides, by wedging a piece of slate between the doorstep and the wall.
A clay may also be softened in this way by sprinkling it with water as the wedging goes on.
The dry color, if sifted very fine, may be added to the plastic clay by thorough kneading and wedging but it is better to work up the clay into a slip and to stir in the color.
This wedgingor waging of clay--the word has descended from the old English potters--is important.
The wedging table already described will serve for this.
Wedging a block of wood between cylinder teeth and concaves will in some types of separator serve to bring up concaves when cylinder is slowly turned by hand.
You should always have a spare grate bar on hand to put in its place; but if you have none you may fill the space by wedging in a stick of hard wood cut the right shape to fill the opening.
If, as must happen in a small pottery, the clay is out of condition, it is best remedied by cutting it with the wire into thin slabs, piling them criss-cross and thenwedging the mass.
Some of the hard pastes are so stiff or short that they require soap water to give plasticity, but usually after a thorough wedging it is now ready for the thrower.
The table must be stout enough to withstand the heavy work of wedging and should have a top of hard wood.
This thorough wedging is essential, as with beginners a small lump or bubble will usually be sufficient to bring about the collapse of the shape.
The left-hand diagram indicates the method of wedging the joint so as to draw up the shoulders; the right-hand view shows the tongueing of the shoulders, which is necessary if thick timber has to be wrought.
Joint and Method of Wedging the Frames of Oil Paintings.
At the right hand of the sketch a wooden cramping arrangement of the box type is given, and by wedging up the boards are closed together.
The narrow rail is secured by wedging the tenons from the outside edge in the ordinary manner.
The joint is self-wedging and will be of interest to Handicraft Instructors.
Colonel, laughing, and taking no notice of his breach of decorum in wedging black ideas into a white conversation.
If there is any true surface on which you can stand the article (right side up), you can level the top by wedging under the legs until the corners of the top are equally distant from the surface on which the object stands.
A loose stop can easily be wedged (preferably from underneath), and it is sometimes made loose on purpose, the wedging tightening the stop and at the same time giving the required slant (Fig.
The vise can be tightened or loosened by means of a big screw or bolt; or the board can be loosely fastened in the middle and tightened by wedging below (Fig.
You will also use wedging to secure tenons and dowels (see Mortising, etc.
By inserting the piece to be held in the end and double wedging the opposite end (Fig.
The expedient of splitting and wedging tenons and dowels can often be applied in repairing (see Mortising and Dowels).
These short pieces, glued to the frame on one side and with the bevelled side wedging the glass into place, hold the latter securely, but, owing to the softness of the wood, not too rigidly.
She caught a glimpse of disordered scenery, and before he could slam the door in her face thrust a silver dollar into his hand, at the same time wedging herself into the opening.
She had tipped a chair back against the door, wedging it beneath the knob so that she might be saved from interruption, then flung herself into another seat and stared unseeingly.
Illustration] A wedging beetle, of form shown in the accompanying illustration, should be always made use of.
The tension of the belt causes it to grip the sides of the groove on the wedge principle, and the belt is flat at the apex of the [V] so that it shall not bottom in the groove, which would impair its wedging action.
Lifting it also prevents it from wedging in the work.
It is obvious that the action of an awl is that of wedgingand tearing rather than of cutting, especially when it is operating endways of the grain.
It is obvious also that this flute by imparting a certain amount of cutting action, and thereby lessening the wedging action of the screw, enables it to bore, without splitting it, thinner work than the ordinary auger.
We now rigged up our shorter tower about a foot from the taller one, wedging in the legs so that the top came level with the slotted boards of the other tower.
The bridge was then completed by wedging the frame K under the ends of the D frames, and also placing a stick across each tower under the joints of the D frames.
The stones were embedded in a thick layer of mud, and if they showed any tendency to teeter we propped them up by wedging small stones under them until they lay solid.
The trouble due to the settling of the granules and wedging the electrodes apart has been practically eliminated in well-designed instruments, by great mechanical nicety in manufacture.
If we turn to the day-to-day record of the operations as disclosed in the official reports we shall at once see that there was on the part of the enemy a series of attempted wedging movements.
They tried by wedging to break the Allied front simultaneously at Roye and at Arras.
A third of these wedging attempts was made between La Bassee and Arras.
A wide flare bit was used, permitting a small copper pipe to be carried into the hole with the drill; through this pipe water was forced under pressure, carrying off the chips so rapidly that no wedging was possible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wedging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
