Definition of Spragging

1. sprag [v] - See also: sprag

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spragging

sprachbund
sprachbunds
sprachgefuhl
sprachgefuhls
sprack
sprackle
sprackled
sprackles
sprad
spraddle
spraddled
spraddles
spraddling
sprag
spragged
spragging (current term)
sprags
spraid
sprain
sprain fracture
sprain one's ankle
sprained
spraining
sprains
sprains and strains
spraint
spraints
sprang
sprangle
sprangled

Literary usage of Spragging

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Mining: Based on the Course of Lectures on Mining Delivered at by Magnus Colbj/orn Ihlseng (1892)
"Description of cars, low •vs. high ; investigation into the minutiae of rolling-stock ; wheels and self-oilers ; gauge and grade ; spragging ; automatic ..."

2. A Manual of Mining. Based on the Course of Lectures on Mining Delivered at by Magnus Colbjørn Ihlseng (1898)
"Description of cars, low vs. high ; investigation into the minutiae of rolling-stock ; wheels and self-oilers ; gauge and grade ; spragging ; automatic ..."

3. A Manual of Mining. Based on the Course of Lectures on Mining Delivered at by Magnus Colbjørn Ihlseng (1898)
"Description of cars, low vs. high; investigation into the minutiae of rolling-stock; wheels and self-oilers ; gauge and grade; spragging; automatic devices ..."

4. The Colliery Manager's Handbook: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Laying-out by Caleb Pamely (1898)
"Mode of Propping and spragging Coal in the Top Hard Coal Seam 273 216. ... Mode of Propping and spragging at the Working Face on the Great Row Seam . ..."

5. Luzerne Legal Register Reports (1917)
"The bulk of the evidence in the case on the part of the plaintiff tended to establish the fact that it was the plaintiff's duty in spragging the cars to run ..."

6. Reports of the Supreme Court of the North-West Territories by Northwest Territories Supreme Court, W. C. Hamilton (1897)
"He says he had never done any spragging before as the trucks where he worked did not need it, and he did not ask anyone about the necessity for ..."

7. Practical Coal Mining: A Manual for Managers, Under-managers, Colliery by George L. Kerr (1905)
"spragging. (3) Fig. 107 shows the methods of using the holing props. ... By properly spragging the coal a larger amount of round is obtained and a smaller ..."

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