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Definition of Lengtheners
1. lengthener [n] - See also: lengthener
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lengtheners
Literary usage of Lengtheners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1909)
"This allows all intermediate blocks, or lengtheners, to be made with the same die.
Keys. ... When, with standard lengtheners, a key is needed 6 inches or ..."
2. Building Stones and Clay-products: A Handbook for Architects by Heinrich Ries (1912)
"In the side-construction arch, the lengtheners and key are set side by side, and
the openings ... End-construction lengtheners are now more widely used than ..."
3. Building Stones and Clay-products: A Handbook for Architects by Heinrich Ries (1912)
"In the side-construction arch, the lengtheners and key are set side by side, and
the openings ... End-construction lengtheners are now more widely used than ..."
4. Fire Prevention and Fire Protection as Applied to Building Construction: A by Joseph Kendall Freitag (1912)
"End-construction lengtheners, at least, have therefore largely superseded ...
The lengtheners are usually made 12 inches wide and 12 inches long, ..."
5. The Church Enchained by William Archer Rutherfoord Goodwin (1916)
"them far, let it be recognised that they remain at their task of defending the
stake, that it may not be pulled up and carried away by the cord lengtheners. ..."
6. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"... since the weakening of the shorteners of the leg and the contracture of the
lengtheners (especially of the calf muscles) makes flexion at the knee and ..."
7. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1916)
"These "lengtheners" of the leg often recover almost completely in cases in which
the paralysis is due to lesions of the pyramidal tract. ..."
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