Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtightened
Literary usage of Overtightened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1869)
"... will become restive if his tongue be cut across by an overtightened curb, or
his respiration impeded by a cruelly - drawn girth. ..."
2. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1848)
"... and the axle-box (such washers being of suitable thickness to prevent the
bolts from being overtightened); and when that part of the elastic shield ..."
3. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society by Manchester Geological Society (1896)
"The writer was engaged in a case in which lives were sacrificed because the wire
conductors had been overtightened by screws, and broke. ..."
4. New Laboratory Manual of Physics by Silas Ellsworth Coleman (1908)
"... noting particularly the behavior of the tie-rods. c. Observe and account for
the curvature of the truss when the rods are overtightened. ..."
5. Electrical Ignition for Internal Combustion Engines by Mortimer Arthur Codd (1911)
"This fault develops in nine cases out of ten owing to the terminals being
overtightened by means of pliers or wrench, thus causing the head of the screw at ..."
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