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People usually specialized in a particular trade, barrel makers, wheelwrights, weavers and so forth.
Usually the barrel is merely rinsed or filled with cold water to check for leaks.
The ports are as high on the barrel as possible, to vent gas up rather than sideways.
The lumbering wadcutter bullet seemed to take forever to get out of the barrel and you really had to hold hard to get good scores.
The recoil brought the barrel upwards and it smacked into her face, leaving a livid bruise.
The Miltech shop is a jumble of jigs, tools and fixtures, each dedicated to a specific task, such as an original M1 barrel vise.
Following the fortunes of a gang losers, wasters and thieves on a near-derelict council estate might not seem like a barrel of laughs.
They promptly take the ball and throw it in a fire they have kindled in a 55-gallon barrel.
The unit is a stout metal tube that slides over the front of the barrel and is secured in place by a wing nut.
So a very precise fixture was made to hold both the receiver and the barrel in proper alignment.
Open and unload the action, turn out the takedown screw about a turn and a half, and then slide the barrel from the receiver.
A kilderkin is an old English liquid measure, dating from about the 13th century, equal to 16 gallons, or half a barrel.
The new Winchesters feature inertial triggers and a conventional tang safety that also doubles as a barrel selector.
Then recock the barrel correctly to its original position, take aim and squeeze the trigger.
On the front of the mower is a rolling barrel with foot-long wiggly rubber fingers.
A common method was to bore a hole in the barrel using any of a variety of bung borers, boring taps, augers, tapered reamers, and the like.
The frame and barrel are a single casting, which allows for easy manufacturing, but poses challenges to drilling, reaming and rifling.
The remaining piece was then reamed out and a straight piece of barrel blank turned to fit and soldered in place.
The wall was twelve barrel widths in length, so when my grenade went off, two columns of the drums went flying in all directions.
Many years ago I tested a 45 pistol where that area of the barrel looked as if it had been cut with a rat-tail file.
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On top of the barrel was a tin coffeepot, a china cup, and half a loaf of bread.
Ristofalo bade him roll the barrel on its chine to the rear and stand it by the hydrant.
My kind friend, the choreman, let me go with him when he carried the lye from the hopper to the soap fat barrel.
Another of picturesque appeal is the bisnaga or barrel cactus, of which there are many species of many sizes.
The boys got out and walked quickly into the desert, found a barrel cactus, and began dissecting it with Rick's scout knife.
She knew that the pulp of the barrel cactus that she tried to chew turned to bitter sawdust in her mouth and sickened her.
Allan was jerked against a barrel chest, felt his bones cracking in a terrific hug.
The old horse pistol balanced just right, and the long light barrel was counterpoised by the heavy stock.
In this machine, the barrel was fitted with a crank, and rotated by handle.
Eyes streaming, bull throat and barrel chest racked by his sobbing, he watched the passing of his people and his city.
Then he tied one end of the remaining rope around Zircon's barrel chest, up under his armpits.
These are usually constructed with endwalls integral with the barrel of the culvert.
Boone clamped his mouth shut and stood with thick, muscular arms crossed over his barrel chest.
Our armor-piercing bullet was made with a cupronickel jacket for the sake of the gun barrel.
With sand from the Sahara, sand from a barrel of sugar, or dust of your great-great-grandfather.
The bullet extracted from the cypress knee, has been tried in the barrel of his gun, and found to fit exactly.
Early in 1918 the American Expeditionary Forces advised us to redesign the 240-millimeter mortar to give it a stronger barrel.
One end of the barrel is placed in this hole and held with a drop of solder.
The shield is forced over the barrel and held in place with a drop of solder.
Two inches taller than Ramsay's six feet, he had a barrel chest and long, powerful arms.
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