thin piece

The sounds are not carried, but mechanically produced again by the rattle of a thin piece of iron close to the listener's ear.

When leather hard the plate is gone over with a thin piece of rubber and when quite hard it may be removed from the mold.

For cleansing the blades the manufacturer supplied a thin piece of wood covered with wash leather or the pith of the elder tree.

For very large books a double headband may be worked on two pieces of gut or string—a thick piece with a thin piece in front.

Lifting this out, she saw a number of little stoppered bottles set in holes made in a thin piece of board for a frame.