erector
Example Sentences
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“It comes apart like a big erector set.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
In his free time, Calleia built Meccano erector set models and made models of military equipment, bridges and machinery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
He recalls how, during the building work, a steel erector made a bet with his foreman that he would be the first to drive across the bridge.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2022
The rules were changed to level the playing field and shooters have since turned their rifles into erector sets, attaching risers, weights, extenders and apertures to the main components to shoot pellets with laser-like precision.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2021
The shield was fitted with a single hydraulic erector and hydraulic sliding platforms, and when complete weighed 194 tons.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad, The North River Division. Paper No. 1151 by Jacobs, Charles M.
