Lexicographical Neighbors of Riddlings
Literary usage of Riddlings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Raiderland: All about Grey Galloway, Its Stories, Traditions, Characters by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1904)
"... KIPPFORD CHAPTER VI COLVEND "THE Riddlings OF CREATION" THE Hinterland of this
Paradise of cave and arch and grotto is the parish of Colvend, ..."
2. The Cupola Furnace: A Practical Treatise on the Construction and Management by Edward Kirk (1903)
"Many careless molders never remove scrap from the top of molds before shaking
out, and seldom throw out riddlings, until the sand heap becomes so filled ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... covered with a layer of the dry riddlings two inches thick. ... another adds
to it its proportion of dry riddlings, and mixe? them carefully. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... is then levelled and covered with a layer of the dry riddlings two inches ...
adds to it its proportion of dry riddlings, and mixes thent carefully. ..."
5. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"The riddlings are what remain in the sieve. The/c/i is the smallest, and tails
through. 2. (Masonry.) The -null pieces broken off from stone by hammering or ..."
6. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"The riddlings remain in the sieve ; the ft U is the smallest, and falls through.
2. (Shipbuilding.) a. A rib within the inner sheathing, bolted through the ..."
7. The Manufacture of Iron, in All Its Various Branches: Including a by Frederick Overman (1854)
"The mortar used in the lining should be fire clay, mixed with some sana, or, what
is better, with a little of the riddlings from the ore yard ; these ..."
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