Groove

Examples

• In vain I endeavored to interest him in Afghanistan, in India, in social questions, in anything which might take his mind out of the groove. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• To show the others he built a straight inclined plane with a groove down its centre. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A tight-fitting ferule is then forced into the groove, thus holding the cloth firmly between the cushion and the rail. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She nestled down in bed, in the groove his body had made, in the warmth he had left. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The groove thus formed may be deepened by another acid solution. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A bronze ball was free to move in the groove with the least possible friction. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A little humbug, and a groove, and everything goes on admirably, if you leave it alone. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The rifle grooves, however, were first made spiral or screwed by Koster, of Birmingham, about 1620, while straight grooves are said to have been in use as far back as 1498. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The feature of importance in the cannon which contributed most to its efficiency was the rifling of the bore with spiral grooves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A Swiss machine for this purpose consists of two disks carrying diamonds in their peripheries, which, being put in rapid revolution, cut parallel grooves in the face of the stone. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In Berlin there is a rifled cannon of 1664 with thirteen grooves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In this there are no steps, it being composed of hardwood cleats moving in longitudinal ridges and grooves, there being a handrail on either side moving at the same speed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• One cylinder had a number of small circular saws that were fitted into grooves cut into the cylinder. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Muskets with straight grooves are said to have been used in the fifteenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The base of the triangle is grooved for the twofold purpose of making the rubber adhere better to the rail, and to increase resiliency. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The mimeograph employs a pointed stylus, used as in writing with a lead-pencil, which is moved over a kind of tough prepared paper placed on a finely grooved steel plate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In 1784 Henry Cort of England introduced the puddling process and grooved rolls. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Also A grooved and eye-pointed needle, constructed and adapted for rapid machine sewing substantially as described. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• At the end of the assembly line, the rear wheels on the finished chassis drop into a set of revolving grooved wheels, sunk into the concrete floor, and driven by an overhead motor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• What is commonly called the Minié Rifle is, in fact, only a Minié Rifle Ball, for the barrels of the guns are nearly the same as the ordinary grooved rifles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• First, when the wheels of the car revolve with the grooved wheels, this motion is transmitted to the differential, through the drive shaft to the motor, limbering up all these parts. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This covered broadly the combination of the cutting cylinders, and rolls for holding the boards against the cutting cylinders, and also means for tongueing and grooving at one operation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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