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  • Technical Chapter 12: Crushing (introduction ...) 12.1 Jaw crusher, jaw breaker12. 2 Roll crusher, roll grinder12. 3 Ball mill12. 4 Stamp mill, hammer mill12. 5 Chilean mill edge mill, roller mill12. 6 '' See-saw '' crusher, '' rocker '' crusher

    12.1 Jaw crusher, jaw breaker 1993

  • If the hilly-cum-go is full of young people, especially sweethearts, the Uncle jiggles the hilly-cum-go horribly, but if old people are on it goes - "See-saw, Marjory Daw," just gently.

    Vignettes of San Francisco Almira Bailey

  • On Thanksgiving the lamp arrived in a large packing box, and was taken out and set up by See-saw

    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903

  • See-saw, Margery Daw, Jacky shall have a new master 101

    The Little Mother Goose Jessie Willcox Smith 1899

  • See-saw, Margery Daw, Jenny shall have a new master 9

    The Little Mother Goose Jessie Willcox Smith 1899

  • Apple Blossom is by See-saw out of Melody, by Stockwell out of Fairy Queen.

    Spring Days 1892

  • "See-saw 's the word: down goes Mercer, up goes a bloody-back."

    Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883

  • Them's a savage lot as that Huggins has got together, and it strikes me as we shall find 'em reg'lar beggars to fight if it's all right as Master See-saw says about their manning his ships.

    Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870

  • See-saw is the fashion of England always; and the Whigs will soon be the top-sawyers. '

    Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

  • See-saw desert battle settles around Libyan oil town as rebels claw back lost ground A Libyan rebel shouts religious slogans before heading towards the frontline, near Brega, Libya,...

    ABC News: Top Stories 2011

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