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The wounds which it makes are perfectly cylindrical, about an eighth of an inch in diameter, and a sixteenth of an inch deep, made in the form of a cone, as if by a counter-sink for a screwhead.
Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923
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A better method of bolting, and one which insures a neat appearance of the branch in addition to serving as the most certain safeguard against the entrance of disease, is to counter-sink the nut in the bark and imbed it in portland cement.
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The work was piece-work, and Mike very soon rose out of his humble beginning as errand-boy for the foreman in the machine-shop of the Agricultural Implement Company, for which his father worked, to a bench of his own, and the right to counter-sink cultivator-shovels at ten cents a hundred.
The Rowdy 1892
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1 Wood's 1 Horsley's skull saws, 18 Gigli's saws with an extra handle, and two Podrez 'directors for the same. 1 set Lane's bone drills, broaches, screw-drivers, and counter-sink with eight ounces of screws: silver patella wire, and 1 pair Peter's bone forceps. 2 aneurism needles, 1 bullet probe, 1 pair Egyptian Army pattern bullet forceps.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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a small metal disk which prevents the fittings from fallings out; i, needle; j, spring; k, counter-sink for head of plug; l, counter-sink for spring.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 Various
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