2. Verb. (third-person singular of countersink) ¹
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Definition of Countersinks
1. countersink [v] - See also: countersink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Countersinks
Literary usage of Countersinks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mechanic's Companion, Or, The Elements and Practice of Carpentry by Peter Nicholson (1845)
"countersinks Are bits for widening the upper part of a hole in wood or iron, for
the head of a screw or pin, and have a conical head. ..."
2. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1906)
"Reamers, Chucks, Counterbores, countersinks, Dies, Three and Four Groove Drills,
Drills with Oil Holes, Jobbers' Dulls, Letter Drills, Wire Drills, Gauges, ..."
3. The Mechanic's Companion, Or, The Elements and Practice of Carpentry by Peter Nicholson (1842)
"countersinks Are bits for widening the upper part of a hole in wood or iron, for
the head of a screw or pin, and have a conical head. ..."
4. The Mechanic's Companion: Or, the Elements and Practice of Carpentry by Peter Nicholson (1832)
"countersinks Are bits for widening the upper part of a hole in wood or iron, for
the head of a screw or pin, and have a conical head. ..."
5. Science and Industry (1900)
"In practice, however, by reason of the countersinks, the dead center will not
advance this amount; just how far it will advance cannot be determined—it will ..."
6. Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture, Civil, Architecture by John Weale (1850)
"countersinks for brass have eleven or twelve cutters round the conic surface,
... These are called rose-countersinks. The conic angle at the vertex ..."
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