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Definition of Tailboards
1. tailboard [n] - See also: tailboard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tailboards
Literary usage of Tailboards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1906)
"The Collom jigs, not including the modified forms, will be noticed to have very
much lower tailboards than the Harz; the maximum is 3£ inches in height in ..."
2. Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1906)
"A study of Table 271, of mill practice, taken from thirty-five mills, brings out
the following points: A descending scale, that is higher tailboards on the ..."
3. Supplemental Digest of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Act by Herbert Confield Lust (1917)
"Complainant contended thai the carriers should deliver a part of a shipment not
entitled to "store-door delivery", to the tailboards of teams and the ..."
4. A Text Book of Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards, Earl Smith Bardwell, Edwin G. Goodwin (1909)
"After the pulp has flowed over the tables for a few minutes, the tailboards are
turned up so that each table will discharge into a special concentrates ..."
5. Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1903)
"A study of Table 271, of mill practice, taken from thirty-five mills, brings out
the following points: A descending scale, that is higher tailboards on the ..."
6. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1902)
"The tops of the tailboards were about six feet from the ground. There were doors
in the rear end of the wagons which were opened to let out the coal. ..."
7. A Home Tour Through the Manufacturing Districts of England in the Summer of 1835 by George Head (1836)
"... have been pleased to designate a small village;—at least, so say the tailboards
of the farmers' carts, and the directing posts in the vicinity. ..."
8. A Home Tour Through the Manufacturing Districts of England, in the Summer of by George Head (1836)
"... have been pleased to designate a small village— at least, so say the tailboards
of the farmers' carts, and the directing posts in the vicinity. ..."
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