Lexic.us

Definition of Tamping bar

1. Noun. A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tamping Bar

Literary usage of Tamping bar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"tamping bar ..... — 941. The borer, fig. 937, is an iron bar tipped with steel, formed like a ... Besides the improved tamping-bar faced with hard copper, ..."

2. Notes on Track: Construction and Maintenance by Walter Mason Camp (1904)
"The knack of working a tamping bar with ease and effect is to let it swing ... The practice of holding a tamping bar in front of the chest and striking with ..."

3. Notes on Track: Construction and Maintenance by Walter Mason Camp (1904)
"The knack of working a tamping bar with ease and effect is to let it swing ... The practice of holding a tamping bar in front of the chest and striking with ..."

4. Manual of the American Railway Engineering Association by American Railway Engineering Association (1911)
"For heavy traffic, the tamping pick or tamping bar should be used. The tamping bar is recommended instead of the tamping pick for ordinary practice. ..."

5. Railway Maintenance Engineering by William Hamilton Sellew (1915)
"Tie Tongs. Track Chisel. Track Wrench, Single End. Lining Bar, Wedge Point. Weight: 13 lbs. Weight: 5165. Railroad Adie. tamping bar. ..."

6. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1853)
"Small quantities of it only are introduced at a time, and rammed very hard by the tamping-bar, which is held steadily by one man, and struck with a sledge ..."

7. Manual by American Railway Engineering Association (1921)
"For heavy traffic, the tamping pick or tamping bar should be used. The tamping bar is recommended instead of the tamping pick for ordinary practice. ..."

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