Lexicographical Neighbors of Gatings
Literary usage of Gatings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"9. lever lock the bolt carries a projecting piece—the " main stump " —which, when
the levers are all raised to the proper height, enters the slots—" gatings ..."
2. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"The connecting gatings are cut at different heights so that the levers must be
lifted unequally in order to permit the bolt to move. ..."
3. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1906)
"367. The bolt post is so placed as to fit in the cut A, Fig. 369, when the bolt
is thrown back, and in B when thrown open. The connecting gatings C are cut ..."
4. Builders' Hardware: A Manual for Architects, Builders and House Furnishers by Clarence Howard Blackall (1889)
"The connecting gatings, C, are cut at different heights, so that the levers must
be lifted unequally in order to per- mit the bolt to move. ..."
5. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1854)
"In the side or sides of the box, above the flat seat, are two slots or gatings,
through which only can communication be obtained with the combination parts. ..."
6. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1890)
"I'alse notches, f, t, are made in the tumblers to defeat attempts to pick the
lock by feeling for the different gatings by backward pressure of the bolt ..."
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