Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 935
e rim of a snuif-box, which supports thebottom like the hoop of a drum or tamborine. The entire circular section is therefore most appropriate for turning; next to it the quartering, Fig.S9S9, should be chosen, but its appearance is less favorable; and a worse effect happens, as the shrink-ing… … are thoroughly prepared, they will become considerably oval; so much so, that a manufacturer who isin the habit of working up large quantities of pear-tree, informs me that hollowed pieces rough-turnedto the circle, alter so much .and so unequally in the drying, that works of three inches will…
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