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Definition of Tymps
1. tymp [n] - See also: tymp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tymps
Literary usage of Tymps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on Metallurgy: Adapted from the Last German Edition of by Bruno Kerl, William Crookes, Ernst Otto Röhrig (1869)
"In small charcoal furnaces the bases of the tymps are from 12 to 15 inches thick,
... The tymps of coke furnaces are from 23 to 30 inches thick, ..."
2. The Mining and Smelting Magazine (1864)
"... and no real tymps, therefore these apertures are really only two tap-holes.
... loss of heat on a hearth with double tymps must be very considerable, ..."
3. Journal by Folk-Song Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"Having therefore determined the fact that the tymps mini in its natural state is
a closed resonant cavity, occurred to mo that thc deafness associated with ..."
4. The Mining Magazine (1856)
"The more compact strata of this rock will serve for hearth-stones and tymps to
the smelting furnaces. ..."
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