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  • Thumbnail for Barrel
    A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide. They are traditionally made of wooden staves and bound...
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    person trained to make wooden casks, barrels, vats, buckets, tubs, troughs, and other similar containers from timber staves that were usually heated or steamed...
    24 KB (2,554 words) - 15:01, 26 April 2024
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    Oak (wine) (redirect from Barrel oak)
    can be introduced in the form of a barrel during the fermentation or aging periods, or as free-floating chips or staves added to wine fermented in a vessel...
    25 KB (3,215 words) - 02:12, 14 January 2024
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    the barrel. The barrel is attached to the powder chamber by means of a groove on the powder chamber into which lugs on the end of the barrel staves fit...
    18 KB (2,079 words) - 18:07, 16 May 2024
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    Lind, Saratoga, monitor, steamer or cabin, barrel-staves, octagon or bevel-top, wardrobe, dome-top, barrel-top, wall trunks, and even full dresser trunks...
    13 KB (1,876 words) - 14:02, 1 May 2024
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    "clapboard" is small split pieces of oak imported from Germany for use as barrel staves, and the name is a partial translation (from klappen, "to fit") of Middle...
    7 KB (645 words) - 14:57, 1 October 2023
  • Icelandic magical staves (Icelandic: galdrastafir) are sigils that were credited with supposed magical effect preserved in various Icelandic grimoires...
    7 KB (224 words) - 18:13, 10 September 2023
  • Stave (redirect from Staves)
    of a barrel Stave bearing Stave church, a type of Medieval wooden church Bruce M. Stave (1937–2017), American historian Icelandic magical staves Joel...
    770 bytes (130 words) - 07:34, 30 January 2021
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    difficult step was the task of placing hoops around the barrel staves. She patented a barrel-hooping machine in 1881 and 1882, which she displayed at...
    23 KB (2,566 words) - 16:56, 22 April 2024
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    withstanding the explosive forces of early cannons, so the pipe (often built from staves of metal) needed to be braced periodically along its length for structural...
    18 KB (2,149 words) - 23:46, 15 May 2024
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    056 cubic inches; and the thickness of staves not greater than 4⁄10 in (10 mm) (diameter ≈ 20.37 in or 52 cm). Any barrel that is 7,056 cubic inches is recognized...
    25 KB (3,262 words) - 17:31, 19 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Allan Pinkerton
    through the wooded groves around Dundee, looking for trees to make barrel staves, when he came across a band of counterfeiters, who may have been affiliated...
    30 KB (3,213 words) - 19:40, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Exeter, New Hampshire
    and fished, raised cattle and swine, or made shakes (shingles) and barrel staves. Thomas Wilson established the town's first grist mill on the eastern...
    39 KB (3,662 words) - 14:26, 3 May 2024
  • Manufacturing began designing and building fiber splints to replace wooden barrel staves that were used to set fractures. On April 22, 2008, the DePuy franchise...
    8 KB (813 words) - 00:01, 21 January 2024
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    that he had captured around 1,600 to 1,700 tons of barrel staves, enough to make 25,000 to 30,000 barrels (4,000 to 4,800 m3) for containing provisions. The...
    100 KB (11,534 words) - 17:18, 24 May 2024
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    early principal use of such fasteners: the fastening of lags such as barrel staves and other similar parts. These fasteners are "screws" according to the...
    65 KB (6,078 words) - 18:34, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brownfield, Maine
    power for industry. Products of the mills included flour, long lumber, barrel staves, rocking chairs, clothing, carriages, sleighs and harness. After the...
    13 KB (1,106 words) - 19:43, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for McCreary County, Kentucky
    subsistence agriculture, timber products such as railroad ties and barrel staves, and small coal mines. Beginning in the early 19th century, Cumberland...
    23 KB (2,450 words) - 02:23, 25 April 2024
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    fence posts, pilings, toothpicks, matches, plywood, coffins, shingles, barrel staves, toys, tool handles, picture frames, veneer, charcoal and firewood....
    17 KB (2,117 words) - 08:57, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Waterford, Maine
    abundant timber into lumber. Wood products included window sashes, barrel staves, salt boxes and buckets. There was also a gristmill, carriage factory...
    13 KB (1,202 words) - 00:01, 2 May 2024
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