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American Mechanical Dictionary
Edward H. Knight
book · 1876
Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary (1876).
American Mechanical Dictionary
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Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the square-shank cutting or forming tool that drops into the anvil’s hardy hole among smith tools. A named hardie in that anvil craft, not the anvil body alone and not a hot-cutter held free of the hole.
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Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the flat-faced smith tool held on stock and struck to smooth surfaces among forge tools. A named flatter in that forge craft, not a set-hammer alone and not a fuller groove tool.
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Swage block is used in Forge.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the perforated cast block with hollows for shaping stock under the hammer among forge furniture. A named swage-block in that forge craft, not the anvil alone and not a stake-anvil horn stake.
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Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the floor-legged blacksmith vise bolted to a bench with a long leg to the floor among smithy fittings. A named leg-vise in that smithy craft, not a machinist bench vise alone and not a pin-vise.
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Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats tongs with box jaws that grip square or flat stock among forge tongs. A named box-tongs in that forge craft, not scroll-tongs and not bare fire-tongs.
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Scroll tongs is used in Forge.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats tongs with scrolled or offset jaws for ornamental ironwork among forge tongs. A named scroll-tongs in that forge craft, not box-tongs and not generic blacksmith tongs alone.
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Cross-peen hammer is used in Forge.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the forging hammer whose peen runs across the handle axis for spreading stock among forge hammers. A named cross-peen-hammer in that forge craft, not a ball-peen-hammer and not a war-hammer.
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Ball-peen hammer is used in Metal.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the peening hammer with a hemispherical peen opposite a flat face among metalworker’s hammers. A named ball-peen-hammer in that metal craft, not a cross-peen-hammer and not a claw-hammer.
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Set hammer is used in Forge.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the handled flatter struck by a sledge to set and smooth hot iron among forge tools. A named set-hammer in that forge craft, not a hand flatter alone and not a fuller.
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Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the rounded grooving tool struck or set to neck and spread hot iron among forge tools. A named fuller in that forge craft, not fullers-earth and not a flatter.
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Raising hammer is used in Metal.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the cross-peened hammer for raising sheet into hollow vessels over a stake among sheet-metal tools. A named raising-hammer in that metal craft, not a planishing-hammer and not a chasing-hammer.
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Planishing hammer is used in Metal.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the polished-face hammer for smoothing raised sheet metal among sheet-metal tools. A named planishing-hammer in that metal craft, not a raising-hammer and not a flatter.
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Power hammer is used in Forge.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats mechanically powered forging hammers of later shop practice among forge machines. A named power-hammer in that forge craft, not a steam-hammer alone and not a trip-hammer water-helve.
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Steam hammer is used in Steam.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the vertically guided forging hammer driven by steam among steam-shop machines. A named steam-hammer in that steam craft, not a trip-hammer and not a generic power-hammer dump alone.
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Rolling mill is used in Metal.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats pairs or trains of rolls that reduce and shape metal stock among mill machines. A named rolling-mill in that metal craft, not a drawplate and not a stamp-mill ore battery.
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Puddling furnace is used in Iron.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the reverberatory hearth for puddling pig iron into wrought iron among ironworks furnaces. A named puddling-furnace in that iron craft, not a finery and not a bare reverberatory-furnace dump alone.
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Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the tapered punch driven through hot iron to open and size holes among forge punches. A named drift in that forge craft, not a mine level and not a center-punch cold mark alone.
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Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the blade for splitting wood along the grain with a mallet among woodworking tools. A named froe in that workshop craft, not an adze and not a broadaxe.
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Drawknife is used in Workshop.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the two-handled blade pulled toward the body to shave wood along the grain among woodworking tools. A named drawknife in that workshop craft, not a spokeshave and not a crooked-knife northern form alone.
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Spokeshave is used in Workshop.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the short-soled shave for curves on spokes, chair parts, and similar work among woodworking tools. A named spokeshave in that workshop craft, not a drawknife and not a bench plane alone.
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Smoothing plane is used in Workshop.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the short bench plane for final surface smoothing among woodworking planes. A named smoothing-plane in that workshop craft, not a jack-plane and not a block-plane.
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Jack plane is used in Workshop.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the mid-length bench plane for rough stock removal among woodworking planes. A named jack-plane in that workshop craft, not a smoothing-plane and not a block-plane.
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Block plane is used in Workshop.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the small bevel-up plane for end grain and one-handed trimming among woodworking planes. A named block-plane in that workshop craft, not a jack-plane and not a smoothing-plane.
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Try square is used in Workshop.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the fixed-blade square for checking and marking right angles in woodwork among layout tools. A named try-square in that workshop craft, not a combination-square and not a framing square alone.
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Sliding bevel is used in Workshop.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the adjustable bevel gauge that locks an angle for transfer and layout among woodworking tools. A named sliding-bevel in that workshop craft, not a try-square and not a combination-square alone.
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Marking gauge is used in Workshop.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the woodworker’s fence-and-pin tool for scribing a line parallel to an edge among layout tools. A named marking-gauge in that workshop craft, not a mortise-gauge and not a try-square.
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Mortise gauge is used in Workshop.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the double-pin marking gauge for laying out mortise and tenon widths among layout tools. A named mortise-gauge in that workshop craft, not a marking-gauge alone and not a try-square.
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Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the small screw-tipped hand boring tool for starter holes among woodworking tools. A named gimlet in that workshop craft, not an auger and not a bit-brace.
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Bit brace is used in Workshop.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the cranked brace for turning auger bits by hand among woodworking tools. A named bit-brace in that workshop craft, not a gimlet alone and not a pump-drill.
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Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the shafted dog that wedges in a bench hole to clamp work among bench fittings. A named holdfast in that workshop craft, not a leg-vise and not a bare clamp dump.
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Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the open-handled carpenter’s saw for ripping or crosscutting timber among woodworking saws. A named hand-saw in that workshop craft, not a tenon-saw and not a dovetail-saw.
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Tenon saw is used in Workshop.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the backed saw for cutting tenons and joinery among woodworking saws. A named tenon-saw in that workshop craft, not a dovetail-saw and not a hand-saw.
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Dovetail saw is used in Workshop.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the fine backed saw for dovetail joinery among woodworking saws. A named dovetail-saw in that workshop craft, not a tenon-saw and not a hand-saw.
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Claw hammer is used in Workshop.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the carpenter’s hammer with a striking face and a split claw for drawing nails among woodworking hammers. A named claw-hammer in that workshop craft, not a framing-hammer alone and not a ball-peen-hammer.
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Micrometer is used in Metal.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the screw-driven precision caliper for fine thickness and diameter among metalworker’s gauges. A named micrometer in that metal craft, not a vernier-caliper alone and not a wire-gauge.
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Vernier caliper is used in Metal.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the sliding caliper with a vernier scale for inside, outside, and depth reads among metalworker’s gauges. A named vernier-caliper in that metal craft, not a micrometer alone and not outside-calipers alone.
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Spirit level is used in Stone.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the sealed vial of liquid and bubble for finding level surfaces in building and survey among leveling instruments. A named spirit-level in that stone-and-building layout craft, not a dumpy-level telescope instrument and not a water-level hose alone.
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Feeler gauge is used in Metal.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the set of thin graduated leaves for measuring narrow gaps and clearances among metalworker’s gauges. A named feeler-gauge in that metal craft, not a wire-gauge and not a depth-gauge.
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Wire gauge is used in Steel.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the plate or disc with graduated slots for checking wire and sheet thickness among shop gauges. A named wire-gauge in that steel-and-wire craft, not a feeler-gauge and not a micrometer alone.
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Surface plate is used in Metal.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the precision flat reference plate for layout and gauging among metalworker’s surface tools. A named surface-plate in that metal craft, not a height-gauge alone and not a carpenter’s square.
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Combination square is used in Workshop.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the multi-head square with sliding rule for angles, depth, and level checks among layout tools. A named combination-square in that workshop craft, not a try-square alone and not a speed-square later triangular form.
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Fulling mill is used in Wool.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the water-powered mill for cleaning and thickening cloth among textile mills. A named fulling-mill in that wool-cloth craft, not a grain watermill alone and not a sawmill.
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Power loom is used in Loom.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the mechanically powered weaving loom of later mill practice among textile machines. A named power-loom in that loom craft, not a handloom alone and not a flying-shuttle alone.
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Jacquard loom is used in Loom.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the loom controlled by punched cards that select individual warps for complex cloth among textile machines. A named jacquard-loom in that loom craft, not a drawloom alone and not a dobby-loom.
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Flying shuttle is used in Loom.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the weft carrier thrown across a wide loom by cords or a picker among weaving tools. A named flying-shuttle in that loom craft, not a boat-shuttle alone and not a power-loom as the whole machine.
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Sewing machine is used in Workshop.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the mechanical stitcher that forms lockstitch or chainstitch in cloth among workshop machines. A named sewing-machine in that workshop craft, not a hand needle alone and not a loom.
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Overshot wheel is used in Water.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the waterwheel filled from above so water turns it by weight among mill wheels. A named overshot-wheel in that water-power craft, not an undershot-wheel and not a breastshot-wheel.
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Undershot wheel is used in Water.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the waterwheel turned by a stream striking the lower paddles among mill wheels. A named undershot-wheel in that water-power craft, not an overshot-wheel and not a breastshot-wheel.
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Albion press is used in Book.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the iron hand press with a toggle or knuckle action for letterpress work among printing machines. A named albion-press in that book-printing craft, not a Columbian eagle press and not a Washington press.
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Suction pump is used in Water.
Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary seats the pump that lifts water by creating a partial vacuum above a column among hydraulic machines. A named suction-pump in that water craft, not a force-pump pressure delivery alone and not a chain-pump.
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