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Definition of Grummets
1. grummet [v] - See also: grummet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grummets
Literary usage of Grummets
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 grummets are soaked in a thick mixture of red lead and oil and are then hung
up to drip off before being used. One of these under the washer at each end ..."
2. Big Game Shooting by Clive Phillipps-Wolley (1894)
"The oars are hung in grummets to stout single thole-pins, so that when dropped
they swing alongside, out of the way, ..."
3. The Game Fish of the Northern States and British Provinces: With an Account by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt (1884)
"There is an extra strip of canvas along the ridge, with two small grummets in
each end, inside the tent, to receive the poles; ..."
4. Rustless Coatings: Corrosion and Electrolysis of Iron and Steel by Matthew Patterson Wood (1905)
"Partial section of Peoria stand-pipe, showing course of electrical current.
between B and C, the rubber gasket and the grummets. The effect of the gasket ..."
5. Standard Practical Plumbing: Being a Complete Encyclopædia for Practical by Philip John Davies (1896)
"grummets are made usually of spun yarn or hemp, soaked in tallow or red lead and
boiled oil. They should be made to fit the boiler screw thread. Fio. 1058. ..."
6. Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare: Containing a Complete and Concise Account of by Charles William Sleeman (1889)
"4 W is the head rope of wire to which the upper grummets of the nets are ...
The nets are made up of rings or grummets of wire of (i inches diameter, ..."
7. Pictures of Southern Life, Social, Political, and Military by William Howard Russell (1861)
"It consists of two circular grummets /of rope, one at the base and the other at
the upper ... The grummets fit the bore of the gun exactly, and act as wads, ..."
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