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Has 3 screws to hold together, plus a wedge like a TC Hawken B/P gun on the hand groved tappered forearm.
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It has a solid rib from action to muzzle and a groved out forearm and fancy engravig on all metal at the action, bbl, etc..
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I think it would be useful for lighting fire you insert the bottom stick in the groved portion to hold it in place then in the bowl part you add the tinder around the drill stick.
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I think it would be useful for lighting fire you insert the bottom stick in the groved portion to hold it in place then in the bowl part you add the tinder around the drill stick.
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I was so interested in the many kinds of planks and tools used by these carpenters, every floor board being tongued and groved by them.
Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Various
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Its shores are of beautiful white sand, gravel and boulders, reaching back to open pine-groved bluffs.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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Fiske's charge, with whom he descended the steps from the balcony of the fort, and marched, with a deputy at either side, through tiled pathways and groved and shaded avenues, to the wharf at the other end of the island, where the Schultze was awaiting his arrival.
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell
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The boxings, the rough lumber, the two by fourteen's finished, the dropped sidings and groved roofing, and lath and ceiling and rough fencings and all the rest?
The White Desert Courtney Ryley Cooper 1913
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In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri, swirling yellow and turgid between its green-groved borders, for miles and miles out upon the grassy Nebraska plains, turning westward over the undulating prairie, with its swales and billows and long, winding lines of cottonwoods, to a slow, vast heave of rising ground --
The U. P. Trail Zane Grey 1905
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-- "Feet very small, included in the wing membrane nearly to the end of the toes; ears acutely pointed, shorter than the head; muzzle groved, nudish; face sharp; rostrum somewhat recurved; wholly sooty brown; a little smaller than _Vesp. formosa_."
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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