samson

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Wow samson, I think this is the first time you haven't brought up the complicit democratic party --- thanks for keeping your eye on the ball here ...

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  1. An appliance for loosening frozen logs by horse-power, consisting of a strong, heavy timber and a chain terminating in a heavy swamp-hook. The timber is placed upright beside the log to be loosened, the chain fastened around it, and the hook inserted low down on the opposite side of the log. Leverage is then applied by a team hitched to the upper end of the upright timber.
  2. A form of brace or stay, used in long and otherwise flexible machines to secure strength and rigidity under the stress of operation at high speed. Particularly used in such textile-machinery as roving-frames. The most rigid, and strongest frame [roving-frame] built, having an abundance of samsons, which are connected with a rail running the whole length of frame at the back, and, in addition, girths running from this rail, connecting with the spindle rail, and holding bearings for our lifting shaft. Trade-catalogue.
  3. In lumbering, to direct the fall of (a tree) by means of a lever and pole.

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  1. Also sampson; so named in allusion to Samson, the strong man (Judges xiv.-xvi.). See samson-post.
  2. samson, n.
 

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