2. Verb. (third-person singular of seam) ¹
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Definition of Seams
1. seam [v] - See also: seam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seams
Literary usage of Seams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biennial report by North Dakota Geological Survey (1902)
"seams fifteen feet thick are not uncommon and are exposed frequently along ...
In the subsequent text a large number of seams between six and ten feet in ..."
2. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1891)
"Coal-seams are conformable with the strata, and are therefore worked ...
Thickness of seams.—Coal-seams vary in thickness from a fraction of an inch to ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"The upper or Raniganj series has eleven seams, with a Ram'ganj total thickness
of 120 feet, in the eastern district, and thirteen coal" seams, ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"No doubt thin seams are of less commercial value than thick seams, because the
production per man is necessarily less and the cost of working is necessarily ..."
5. The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States by Henry Gannett (1905)
"COAL seams. Several valuable seams have recently been opened in the valley of Canyon
... About a dozen workable seams have been reported from this region. ..."
6. Special Report by Geological Survey of Alabama, Columbia University, School of Dental and Oral Surgery (1895)
"Sixteen seams are known, and eight of these are of sufficient volume, ...
The smallest one of these eight seams is thicker than the average df the well ..."
7. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"Ragging Marks: Ragging leaves protrusions on the surface of the steel, and
sometimes these are lapped over, showing in the finished steel in irregular seams ..."
8. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Roofs with a slope of less than 4 in. to the foot should have flat seams (soldered)
... Standing seams need not he soldered. The cross seams are, of course, ..."
9. Biennial report by North Dakota Geological Survey (1902)
"seams fifteen feet thick are not uncommon and are exposed frequently along ...
In the subsequent text a large number of seams between six and ten feet in ..."
10. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1891)
"Coal-seams are conformable with the strata, and are therefore worked ...
Thickness of seams.—Coal-seams vary in thickness from a fraction of an inch to ..."
11. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"The upper or Raniganj series has eleven seams, with a Ram'ganj total thickness
of 120 feet, in the eastern district, and thirteen coal" seams, ..."
12. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"No doubt thin seams are of less commercial value than thick seams, because the
production per man is necessarily less and the cost of working is necessarily ..."
13. The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States by Henry Gannett (1905)
"COAL seams. Several valuable seams have recently been opened in the valley of Canyon
... About a dozen workable seams have been reported from this region. ..."
14. Special Report by Geological Survey of Alabama, Columbia University, School of Dental and Oral Surgery (1895)
"Sixteen seams are known, and eight of these are of sufficient volume, ...
The smallest one of these eight seams is thicker than the average df the well ..."
15. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"Ragging Marks: Ragging leaves protrusions on the surface of the steel, and
sometimes these are lapped over, showing in the finished steel in irregular seams ..."
16. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Roofs with a slope of less than 4 in. to the foot should have flat seams (soldered)
... Standing seams need not he soldered. The cross seams are, of course, ..."
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