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Definition of Alinements
1. alinement [n] - See also: alinement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alinements
Literary usage of Alinements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Surveying: Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie, Cady Staley (1897)
"... and a seventh stake at F, in the alinements of В С and A P. Then set an eighth
stake at G, in the alinements of BE and D F. ..."
2. Treatise on Surveying by William Mitchell Gillespie (1896)
"alinements of AD and CP; and a seventh stake at F, in the alinements of BC and A P.
Then set an eighth stake at G, ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"(6) One of the non-commissioned officers or other enlisted men who take positions
to mark the pivots, marches, formations, and alinements in modern ..."
4. Report and Transactions by Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art (1906)
"We have here six stones, arranged in two rows of three each. The breadth of each
member points along its row. The spacing in the alinements varies from 26 ..."
5. A Treatise on Surveying, Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie (1897)
"alinements of AD and CP ; and a seventh stake at F, in the alinements of BC and
A P. Then set an eighth stake at G, ..."
6. Folk-memory by Walter Johnson (1908)
"It may, indeed, be truly pointed out that there are other rows of yews. If some
alinements lie ' dead on ' a barrow or earthwork, ..."
7. A Treatise on Land-surveying: Comprising the Theory Developed from Five by William Mitchell Gillespie (1869)
"139. a stake at any convenient point C. A Set stakes D and E, anywhere in the
alinements CA and CB. With D 33 a centre, and a length of the chain equal to ..."
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