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Definition of Hand-build
1. Verb. Make without a potter's wheel. "This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand-build
Literary usage of Hand-build
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. C3I: Issues of Command and Control edited by Thomas P. Coakley (1991)
"Instead of machinery, though, I think I'll hire a lot of people and hand-build
a Bl because it's easier to lay them off than to get rid of capital equipment ..."
2. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1855)
"Wasps build their nests of mud in lofty places,73 and make wax therein: hornets,
on the other hand, build in holes or under ground. ..."
3. The Human Mechanism: Its Physiology and Hygiene and the Sanitation of Its by Theodore Hough, William Thompson Sedgwick (1906)
"The most highly civilized races, on the other hand, build carefully planned and
sometimes elaborate houses, furnished with various devices, ..."
4. Man and His Bodies by Annie Wood Besant (1896)
"As we, on the other hand, build into our dense bodies solid particles of purer
type, we attract the correspondingly purer type of solid astral matter. ..."
5. Times of Retirement: Devotional Meditations by George Matheson, Donald MacMillan (1901)
"But my heart is bigger than my hand; build to my heart! My love is stronger than
my leading; build to my love! The Psalmist prayed that Thou wouldst accept ..."
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