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Definition of Surfacers
1. surfacer [n] - See also: surfacer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surfacers
Literary usage of Surfacers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lumber Manufacture in the Douglas Fir Region by Howard B. Oakleaf (1920)
"surfacers In addition to the machines used for matching, moulding, ... Such surfacers
will take stock from % inch to 10 inches thick and are made in three ..."
2. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1907)
"This is accomplished by laying the instrument on the tie, as shown in H, with
the surfacers 4 placed flatwise on the proposed locations of the tie plates. ..."
3. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"In many of the surfacers all four sides of the board are operated on at once,
... Instead of plane surfacers machines may be devised for cutting curved ..."
4. Building and Repairing Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1903)
"The surfacers, 4, are brought accurately into the same plane, and the thumb screw,
8, is then tightened to secure the adjustable head. ..."
5. The Granites of Maine by Thomas Nelson Dale, George Otis Smith (1907)
"... 2 compressors (capacity 750 and 1400 cubic feet per minute), 5 steam drills,
25 pneumatic plug drills, 18 surfacers, and 36 pneumatic hand tools. FIG. ..."
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