erector

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The official Korean Central News Agency said Kim visited a factory that produces transport erector launchers, or TELs, without saying when he went or where the factory is.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 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

In What Next for the Wellerman? he tells how he had to quit his building trade job as a steel erector after having panic attacks.

From BBC • Jul. 6, 2023

Sears sold everything: feed for chickens, Whirlpool washing machines, as well as the nightgowns, watches and erector sets in the Christmas “wish book.”

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2018

Microscopes which have a draw tube can be furnished with an erector, an instrument so called because it erects the images, which the microscope has turned upside down, through the crossing of the rays.

From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.