Lumps
[lʌmps]
Examples
- The steam-shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Run the articles through a number of times and free from all lumps. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- But the gentleman with the lumpy forehead having for the time delivered himself of all that he found behind his lumps, spake for the time no more. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Warm, my dear young friend, with three lumps of sugar to the tumbler. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In work of this nature it had been customary, as above stated, to depend upon a high explosive, such as dynamite, to shatter and break the ore to lumps of one hundred pounds or less. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the manufacture of shoes the finest quality of rubber is received in wooden boxes 4 × 2 × 1? feet, containing about 350 pounds in lumps of 1 to 75 pounds. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Dissolve the glue in 3/4 quart of warm water, put in the lampblack and emery, stir till there are no lumps, then apply to the board with a woolen rag smoothly rolled. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- These lumps are cut to suitable size, and are then ground and washed in the machine shown in Fig. 161, water and steam being sprayed on the rubber during the operation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Unlike the other two common methods of making salt, it forms tiny salt flakes instead of the usual cubes or lumps. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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