caisson
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Caisson horses pull coffins to burials at Arlington, bringing former officers and service members killed in action in America’s wars to their grave sites with haunting uniformity and precision.
From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2016
Precisely at the moment of the tide's turn, when the water was completely still, 25 workmen aboard Caisson 7 frantically twirled at the watercocks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The scattered cheering of the crowd rose to a roar, and through it sounded the bouncing blasts of the field-artillery march�The Caisson Song.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She tossed her purse to a surprised cop, waved away courtiers clucking in alarm, waded ankle-deep in the construction-site muck to reach the ladder and clamber to the top of Caisson 7. 20,000 Concrete Piles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Caisson, 203-204.Calcium carbide, 152-153. in making nitrogenous fertilizer, 264.Calico printing, 249.Calorie, 27-28, 61-62.Calorimeter,
From General Science by Clark, Bertha M.
Vocabulary lists containing caisson
Civil Engineering
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Engineering - Middle School
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Engineering - High School
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