Definition of Diestocks

1. diestock [n] - See also: diestock

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diestocks

dieselized
dieselizes
dieselizing
dieselpunk
diesels
dieses
diesinker
diesinkers
diesinking
diesis
diest
diester
diesterase
diesters
diestock
diestocks (current term)
diestrous
diestrual
diestrum
diestrums
diestruses
diet
diet fads
diet records
diet surveys
dietarian
dietarians
dietaries
dietarily

Literary usage of Diestocks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practical Metal-worker's Assistant ...: With the Application of the Art by Oliver Byrne, John Scoffern, William Clay, William Fairbairn, James Napier (1864)
"Plier diestocks are also made in the form of common nut-crackers, or in fact, much like Fig. 452, if we consider it to have handles proceeding from aa, ..."

2. The Practical Metal-worker's Assistant: Comprising Metallurgic Chemistry by Adolph A. Fesquet, Oliver Byrne, John Percy (1878)
"Plier diestocks are also made in the form of common nut-crackers, ... the kinds most in use being distinguished as the double chamfered diestocks, Figs. ..."

3. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "The (1882)
"The foregoing series of taps are grouped in separate diestocks ; the ... The necessity for gradually reducing sue and weight in the diestocks needs no ..."

4. Monthly Consular and Trade Reports by United States Bureau of Manufactures (1904)
"... ratchet clamp drills, bolt cutters, handles for dies for cutting threads or bolts, taps, diestocks, thread tools, tool holders for planers and lathes, ..."

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