Lexic.us

Definition of Holding device

1. Noun. A device for holding something.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Holding Device

Literary usage of Holding device

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1918)
"Ct. 750, holding device differing from like former articles only in superior ... 149, holding device consisting of combination of fire-lighter with ordinary ..."

2. The Federal Reporter: With Key-number Annotations by District of Columbia Court of Appeals, United States Commerce Court, Courts of Appeals (1890)
"To one is attached the spring and a nut and eccentric for vertical adjustment, and to the other the grinding adjustment and the stop and holding device. ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"It is obvious that with- 123 USUS, BOOK 31. out a staple holding device the parts enumerated would be inoperative, in view of which n staple- holding device ..."

4. The Milk Question by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1912)
"With a good holding device there is not a loophole for any harmful bacteria to escape destruction. Two forms of holding devices are used by dairymen. ..."

5. Shop and Foundry Practice: Prepared for Students of the International by International Correspondence Schools (1901)
"23, but to a holding device a, which in turn is clamped to the-table b. ... 28, where a is a holding device or headstock. It will rarely be possible, ..."

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