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- noun Plural form of
sheathing .
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Examples
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Upon the beach I found the fragments of a wreck, consisting of part of a mast, a tiller wheel, and some copper sheathings, the last sad records of the fate of some unfortunate vessel on this wild and breaker-beaten shore.
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Electrically conductive connection between electrically inactive parts, such as water, gas and heater pipes, steel structures, metallic cable sheathings, foundation earth leads and protective conductors.
4. Power transmission and distribution in power supply systems Frank Ponemunski 1991
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"A" (When all metallic parts, such as water pipes, gas mains, central heating, metallic sheathings of cables and other metal constructions, are connected with one another and with the ground in a conductive way.) 5.
3. Recommendations for Practical Vocational Training in the Working Techinques of ''Protective Measures against Hazardous Contact Voltage'' Gerhard Klix 1991
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They apply the protective measures of connection to neutral or protective earthing with fault current return through metallic conductors (water pipes, cable sheathings).
4. Power transmission and distribution in power supply systems Frank Ponemunski 1991
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In the churches there are numerous specimens of all the varieties, forming the columns and sheathings of altars, memorial chapels, and monuments; the incrustations of alabaster on the walls of the Borghese chapel, in
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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It was much used for mouldings, sheathings, and pedestals, and also for floors.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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Specimens of brocatello may be found in several churches and palaces, forming mouldings, sheathings, and pedestals.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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The panels cracked, the carvings flew in splinters, the hinges at each shock danced upon their hooks, the planks were displaced, the wood smashed to atoms ground between the sheathings of iron.
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Rainbow, at the upper end of the lake, poked her granite head through its vapory sheathings.
Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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One huge case, half wrecked, showed the gleam of Florentine brasses; another, crated and roped, revealed faded Genoese brocades; slender broken legs and edges of carved flaps protruded from battered sheathings.
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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