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Definition of Steadies
1. steady [v] - See also: steady
Lexicographical Neighbors of Steadies
Literary usage of Steadies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Metal Turning: A Handbook for Engineers, Technical Students, and by Joseph Gregory Horner (1906)
"Hence the employment of steadies, or stays, which are of several forms, fixed,
... The fixed, and the travelling steadies have their distinct uses. ..."
2. Practical Metal Turning: A Handbook for Engineers, Technical Students, and by Joseph Gregory Horner (1906)
"Fixed steadies—Travelling ditto—The Sleeve Form —Fixed Wood Bearings —steadies with
... The fixed, and the travelling steadies have their distinct uses. ..."
3. Grinding Machinery by James J. Guest (1915)
"steadies.—Another feature peculiar to grinding machines, though for Plain and
Universal machines only, ... The object of steadies is to prevent vibration ..."
4. Mind and Hand: Manual Training, the Chief Factor in Education by Charles Henry Ham (1900)
"... Higher the Development of Character.—The use of Tools quickens the Intellect.—Making
Things rouses the Attention, sharpens the Observation, and steadies ..."
5. Mind and Hand: Manual Training, the Chief Factor in Education by Charles Henry Ham (1900)
"Making Things rouses the Attention, sharpens the Observation, and steadies the
Judgment.—History of Inventions in England, 1740-1840. ..."
6. The London Medical Gazette (1832)
"An assistant steadies the tube by holding this shield whilst the cord is tightened
daily. 1 think, if any gentleman will try the ..."
7. Child Welfare in North Carolina by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Wiley Hampton Swift (1918)
"The Postal Telegraph employs but three "steadies." If the need for more messengers
arises, boys can always be had. The company hires only boys who have ..."
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