Definition of Triblet

1. n. A goldsmith's tool used in making rings.

Definition of Triblet

1. Noun. A tapering cylinder used in metal crafting, usually made of steel, which is used to expand or measure a ring or hole in another piece of metal up to a desired size. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Triblet

1. a tapering mandrel [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Triblet

tribe Bubalus
tribe synercus
tribelet
tribelets
tribelike
tribes
tribesman
tribesmen
tribespeople
tribespeoples
tribesperson
tribespersons
tribeswoman
tribeswomen
tribimaximal
triblet (current term)
triblets
triblock
tribo-
triboelectric
triboelectric effect
triboelectric series
triboelectricity
triboelectrification
tribolium
tribological
tribologically
tribologies
tribologist
tribologists

Literary usage of Triblet

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

1. The Engineer's & Mechanic's Encyclopeadia ...: The Machinery & Processes by Luke Hebert (1849)
"The central hole for the mandril of triblet does not extend the entire length of the pipe, but terminates with a much smaller hole at the extremity; ..."

2. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"When finished, the triblet is withdrawn by Inserting the key at Its other end and drawing it through a collar which exactly fit* it. targe tubes are drawn ..."

3. Turning and Mechanical Manipulation: Intended as a Work of General Reference by Charles Holtzapffel (1846)
"The tube, when finished, is drawn off the triblet by putting the key through the opposite extremity of the same, and drawing the ..."

4. The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopædia: Comprehending Practical by Luke Hebert (1846)
"The triblet or ... which is screwed into U* end of the triblet, that abuts against the shoulder ; and it is by this connexion with the ..."

5. The London Journal of Arts and Sciences by William Newton (1840)
"3, shews a sectional elevation of a connecter, to be screwed on to the end of the mandrill or triblet, and attached to the chain, as before described, ..."

6. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1840)
"The draw plate, die, collet, or whittle, is shewn in section, with the tube and the mandrill or triblet, within the die, collet, ..."

7. The Practical Metal-worker's Assistant ...: With the Application of the Art by Oliver Byrne, John Scoffern, William Clay, William Fairbairn, James Napier (1864)
"The tube, when finished, is drawn off the triblet by putting the key through the opposite extremity of the same, and drawing the ..."

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