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Definition of Trippers
1. tripper [n] - See also: tripper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trippers
Literary usage of Trippers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Belt Conveyors and Belt Elevators by Frederic Valerius Hetzel (1922)
"This has been the experience of others using fixed trippers with by-pass chutes
... A traveling tripper bends the belt less than a series of fixed trippers, ..."
2. Studies in the Cost of Urban Transportation Service by Frederick William Doolittle, American Electric Railway Association (1916)
"CHAPTER XI THE APPLICATION OF TRAFFIC DATA The Determining Factors in Schedule
Making, Minimum Headway,- Meeting Points, Use of trippers, ..."
3. The "Flower of Gloster," by Ernest Temple Thurston (1911)
"XXXI A CURE FOR trippers IF I were to write of Stratford-on-Avon, I should be
doing myself an irreparable injustice. I have one recollection of the place, ..."
4. The Lone Swallows by Henry Williamson (1922)
"COCKNEY BIRD trippers MY work necessitated long hours in London, and I used to
bless the sparrows; I was never tired of watching them. ..."
5. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1917)
"The trippers consist essentially of two pulleys, one above and slightly in advance
of the ... The trippers may be movable or fixed, single or in series. ..."
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