erector
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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
Mr Kay, a retired steel erector and former soldier, said as soon as he turned on to the road "both my near-side tyres popped".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2023
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
Its application is more general upon planing machine work than any other, although it is frequently used by the lathe hand or turner, and by the vice hand and erector.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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