Receptacles

Examples

• Scattered over the country one still finds isolated charcoal kilns, crude earthen receptacles, in which wood thus deprived of air was allowed to smolder and form charcoal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Nor are outward objects alone the receptacles of the Spirit of Good. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• A number of receptacles containing charges of calcium carbide are made to successively receive a regulated quantity of water, the gas being collected in a rising and falling holder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The means have varied in many instances, but chiefly consist of bags and other receptacles to hold and distribute the oil upon the surrounding water with economy and uniformity. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• On this platform were placed tracks, and from the tracks were suspended trucks, baskets, or other merchandise receptacles, having wheels resting on and adapted to roll on the tracks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Is it not possible that graft is the cracking and bursting of the receptacles in which we have tried to constrain the business of this country? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

Typist: Susan