Lexicographical Neighbors of Grummeted
Literary usage of Grummeted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shield and compressed air tunneling by Bertram Henry Majendie Hewett, Sigvald Johannesson (1922)
"The two men at the left arc tightening up a bolt which has just been grummeted.
The next two men are driving the calking mixture and the two on the right ..."
2. New York Tunnel Extension, the Pennsylvania Railroad: Description of the by American Society of Civil Engineers (1910)
"... lin. ft. of joint and 445 bolts grummeted; and in pocket iron: 126 lin. ft.
of joint and 160 bolts ..."
3. The Subways and Tunnels of New York, Methods and Costs: With an Appendix on by Gilbert Haskell Gilbert, Lucius Irving Wightman, William Lawrence Saunders (1912)
"... and prior to the placing of the concrete the joints were caulked, the bolts
grummeted and the tunnels rendered practically water-tight. ..."
4. Big Game Shooting by Clive Phillipps-Wolley (1894)
"The harpoon line, which is ' grummeted ' round the shank of the head, consists
of sixteen fathoms ..."
5. Seasons with the Sea-horses; Or, Sporting Adventures in the Northern Seas by James Lamont (1861)
"Each of these harpoon heads has grummeted round its neck one end of a line of
twelve or fifteen fathoms long, each line being neatly coiled up in a separate ..."
6. Yachting in the Arctic Seas, Or, Notes of Five Voyages of Sport and by James Lamont (1876)
"Each of these harpoon-heads has grummeted round its neck one end of a line of
twelve or fifteen fathoms long, each line being neatly coiled up in a separate ..."
7. Yachting in the Arctic Seas, Or, Notes of Five Voyages of Sport and by James Lamont (1876)
"Each of these harpoon-heads has grummeted round its neck one end of a line of
twelve or fifteen fathoms long, each line being neatly coiled up in a separate ..."
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