Lexicographical Neighbors of Lockful
Literary usage of Lockful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report in Reference to the Canal to Connect the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal by John James Abert (1874)
"We see, therefore, that the case of one lockful per boat is on ... But for the
second, this lockful has to be let off that the boat may enter the lock, ..."
2. Historical Sketches of the Ten Miles Square Forming the District of Columbia by Jonathan Elliot (1830)
"Ho »ever in order to provide for contingencies and unforeseen cases *w« adopt
one lockful and a half for the passage of each boat through the Summit Level. ..."
3. Transactions by Manchester Association of Engineers (1905)
"When the traffic is all passing in one direction it is evident that a lockful of
water is used for every vessel or train of vessels, and the water used is ..."
4. A Treatise on Civil Engineering by William Macfarland Patton (1895)
"For a single lock each boat ascending or descending draws a lockful of ...
requiring less than a lockful for the descending boat, and for an ascending boat ..."
5. The Prize Essay on Canals and Canal Conveyance by W. O'Brien (1858)
"... to open or shut off its communication with B, it will enable one to save ^ a
lockful; for, ... we shall thus have J lockful ready for an ascending boat. ..."
6. Journal by General Assembly, Pennsylvania General Assembly. Senate, Pennsylvania (1827)
"... in the other, a complete lockful is necessary, the quantity of water expended,
in the same time, is less. The average of both, viz: the number of boats, ..."
7. The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the by United States President (1875)
"She will find the Atlantic locks full, and will descend with one lockful, ...
Пег successors will ascend to the summit with one Pacific lockful and descend ..."
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