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Definition of Sheathings
1. sheathing [n] - See also: sheathing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheathings
Literary usage of Sheathings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Cold Storage: The Theory, Design and Construction of Buildings and by Madison Cooper (1914)
"The common method of applying is to place a layer of quilt between two sheathings
of flooring and nail through it, FIG. 18—METHOD OF APPLYING CABOT QUILT. ..."
2. Manual of Mercantile Correspondence in Two Languages-- English and German by Ludwig Simon, Christian Vogel, Henry P. Skelton, W. C. Wrankmore, Leland Mason (1883)
"Order for Copper sheathings. Broad-Street, 25th January 1881. Messrs. W. Green,
Fell fy Co., London. Gentlemen, Have the goodness to ship on board the ..."
3. A Practical Gudie for the Manufacture of Metallic Alloys by André Franccois Victor Guettier, A. A. Fesquet (1872)
"V. COPPER ALLOYS FOR SHIP sheathings. ... bronze alloys had resisted in the
proportion of 2 to 1, and 3 to 2, as compared with sheathings of pure copper, ..."
4. Americanized Encyclopaedia Britannica: Rev. and Amended A Dictionary of Arts (1890)
"... woolen goods, silver-plated and iron wares. drills for metal-workers, copper
sheathings, Prus-ian blue, paraffin and other candles, glass, cordage, ..."
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