Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A power-punch for making rivet-holes in plates, tubes, and other work in wrought-iron.
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Examples
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At twelve o'clock Mike had to go out and buy stamps, which he subsequently punched in the punching-machine in the basement, a not very exhilarating job in which he was assisted by one of the bank messengers, who discoursed learnedly on roses during the _seance_.
Psmith in the City 1928
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I advised him to try the use of the hydraulic press as a punching-machine, and also as a cutting-machine to dress the ends of the great links.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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Aided by the Jacquard punching-machine of Roberts, the riveting of plates of the largest size has thus become one of the simplest operations in iron-manufacturing.
Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863
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Aided by the Jacquard punching-machine of Roberts, the riveting of plates of the largest size has thus become one of the simplest operations in iron-manufacturing.
Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858
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The rapidity with which this second tube was constructed was in no small degree owing to the Jacquard punching-machine, contrived for the purpose by Mr. Roberts of Manchester.
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858
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