Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tamping-bar .
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Examples
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Heaton 10.110 reports a case in which, by an explosion, a tamping-iron was driven through the chin of a man into the cerebrum.
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A premature explosion drove a tamping-iron, three feet seven inches long, 1 1/4 inches in diameter, weighing 13 1/4 pounds, completely through the man's head.
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A premature explosion drove a tamping-iron, three feet seven inches long, 1 1/4 inches in diameter, weighing 13 1/4 pounds, completely through the man's head.
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Heaton reports a case in which, by an explosion, a tamping-iron was driven through the chin of a man into the cerebrum.
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"Hist!" whispered Joe, for at that moment, plainly heard, there came up to where they stood a peculiar thumping sound, as of a mason working with a tamping-iron upon stone.
Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea George Manville Fenn 1870
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The most remarkable case is that reported by Bigelow, in which, by the premature explosion of a blast, a tamping-iron, three feet four inches in length, one and a quarter inches in diameter, and weighing thirteen and a quarter pounds, traversed the cranium from the angle of the lower jaw on one side to the centre of the frontal bone above, near the sagittal suture.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863
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