Thesaurus / screenings
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This finely broken material, usually called screenings, is essential to the construction of the water-bound type of surface.
AMERICAN RURAL HIGHWAYST. R. AGGThe bonding material is the finer portion of the product of the crusher, which is called screenings.
AMERICAN RURAL HIGHWAYST. R. AGGThe automobile traffic first brushes aside all of the screenings and smaller particles of rock, exposing the larger stones.
AMERICAN RURAL HIGHWAYST. R. AGGScreenings having good bonding properties will also be required for the base course.
AMERICAN RURAL HIGHWAYST. R. AGGWater and binding material—stone screenings or good packing gravel—can be added if found necessary for proper consolidation.
THE FUTURE OF ROAD-MAKING IN AMERICAARCHER BUTLER HULBERTSomebody had kindled a fire of rice screenings near one of them and it had been scorched.
THE FOUNDATIONS OF JAPANJ.W. ROBERTSON SCOTTCook or grind screenings and burn chaff when certain weeds are suspected.
SEEDS OF MICHIGAN WEEDSW. J. (WILLIAM JAMES) BEALExperiments made in England show that coal screenings may be employed to good advantage in the place of sand and gravel.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, NO. 443, JUNE 28, 1884VARIOUSGreat care has to be exercised in all operations of the screen house lest wheat should pass away with the screenings.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 10, SLICE 5VARIOUSLook out, dad, you may strike a nest of screenings shot into the middle of one of those sacks with a stove pipe.
CHIQUITA, AN AMERICAN NOVELMERRILL TILESTONWORDS RELATED TO SCREENINGS
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