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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having edges or ends united by a lap weld.
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Examples
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It is a lap-welded, wrought-iron pipe of superior material, and made with exceeding care and thoroughly tested at the works.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various
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For greater pressures, the joints were made by an inner sleeve riveted on one end of the joint, with an outer lap-welded band, as shown by Fig. 15; lead was run into the space between the outer band and the pipe, and then tightly driven up by calking-irons.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Various
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All the pipes used are of malleable iron, lap-welded, and of 5 in. internal diameter, having screwed coupling muffs for making the connections.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Various
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Siwash, where I was lap-welded into the Eta Bita Pies, any fraternity which initiated a candidate and left enough of him to appear in chapel the next morning was the joke of the school.
At Good Old Siwash George Fitch 1896
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