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Definition of Tremies
1. tremie [n] - See also: tremie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tremies
Literary usage of Tremies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Municipal Engineers Journal (1915)
"The tremies were made of 12-inch diameter spiral riveted pipe 63 feet long, ...
The charging buckets for the tremies were operated inside of the square ..."
2. A Treatise on the Inspection of Concrete Construction: Containing Practical by Jerome Cochran (1913)
"In fact, if concrete is deposited with the utmost care, in closed buckets or
through tremies, and there is any current to speak of, a considerable portion ..."
3. North Coast of France Pilot: Including the Channel Islands by United States Hydrographic Office (1917)
"The Oyster Rock dries 12 feet nearly 200 yards 130° of the castle, and the tremies
are scarcely 100 yards southward from the Breakwater Lighthouse. ..."
4. A Treatise on Concrete, Plain and Reinforced: Materials, Construction, and by Frederick Winslow Taylor, Sanford Eleazer Thompson, René Feret, William Barnard Fuller, Frank Pape McKibben, Spencer Baird Newberry (1916)
"The use of tremies is referred to as long ago as 1863 by Gilmore in his ...
Usually the cost is greater than with tremies and the results much less ..."
5. Railroad Construction by Charles Lee Crandall (1913)
"After the twin tube was secured in place, the concrete was deposited through
tremies. The usual order was to fill one of the pockets near the east end, ..."
6. Building the New Rapid Transit System of New York City by Fred Lavis, Maurice E. Griest (1915)
"The tremies are so arranged that they can be raised or lowered to accelerate or
retard the flow of the concrete. ..."
7. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Railway, Bridge and (1915)
"Concrete dump cars running on light rail, spouting, tremies, ... tremies are used
to place concrete under water and a form of tremie is employed where the ..."
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