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Definition of Percussively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Percussively
Literary usage of Percussively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1847)
"That waves in a broken state strike erections in the sea, in a manner to act
powerfully and percussively, as hydraulic rams by their ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1881)
"... Ingersoll, Wood, and other machines operate percussively ; the diamond
drill (which see) abrasively. Rocker. A short trough in which auriferous sands ..."
3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"The most successful coal-cutting machines may be uded under two types: (1) Those
that act percussively FIG. 1 cut with a single large chisel, very much like ..."
4. United States Mineral Lands: Laws Governing Their Occupancy and Disposal by Henry Norris Copp (1882)
"... Ingersoll, Wood, and other machines operate percussively; the diamond drill (which
see) abrasively. Rocker. A short trough in which auriferous sands are ..."
5. Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects by Royal Institution of Naval Architects (1879)
"... has attempted to carry out a system of machine riveting upon the sides of the
ordinary iron ship percussively by means of steam riveters. ..."
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