Grooved
[grʊvd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Groove
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Examples
- 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.
- The bed stock is cut into strips, planed on all sides, and tongued and grooved on the widest sides. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The pulley, another of the machines, is merely a grooved wheel around which a cord passes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Sometimes the rat-tail was shaped like a long V and grooved, while on each side were elaborate scrolls. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Prior to Cort's time the plastic lump or ball of metal taken from the furnace was generally beaten by hammers, but Cort's grooved rollers pressed out the mass into sheets. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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