Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarfings
Literary usage of Scarfings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatise on Architecture, Including the Arts of Construction, Building by William Hosking, Arthur Ashpitel, Thomas Tredgold, Thomas Young, John Robinson (1867)
"Scarfings are frequently made oblique, as in fig. 18 ; but we imagine that this
is a bad practice. It begins to yield at a point where the wood is crippled ..."
2. A Practical Description of Herron's Patent Trellis Railway Structure by James Herron (1841)
"T, T, &c. are the scarfings which unite the ends of strong string-pieces of
timber, over each of which is placed the middle of a heavy iron edge rail, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Scarfings of beams are frequently made oblique, as in Plat« XXII. fig. 2; but
this sec-ma a bad practice. It begins to yield at a point where the wood is ..."
4. A System of Mechanical Philosophy by John Robison, James Watt (1822)
"... the effect, both of the joggles and the scarfings, is considerably diminished;
... it is on the upper side, the scarfings act in a very different way. ..."
5. A System of Mechanical Philosophy by John Robison, James Watt (1822)
"If the gudgeon be in the middle, the effect, both of the joggles and the scarfings,
is considerably diminished; and if it is on ..."
6. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"The scarfings of all yards are in length about one third the length of the yard.
Should the timber not be long enough, they may be made less. ..."
7. A Cotton Fabrics Glossary by Frank P. Bennett, & Co (1914)
"More ideas have possibly been produced in scarfings since articles were manufactured
of cotton and silk than were seen before. Another instance of cotton ..."
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