Definition of Percussively

1. Adverb. In a percussive way. ¹

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Definition of Percussively

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Percussively

percussed
percusses
percussing
percussion
percussion cap
percussion section
percussion sound
percussion wave
percussionist
percussionists
percussions
percussive
percussive instrument
percussive maintenance
percussively (current term)
percussiveness
percussor
percussors
percutaneous
percutaneous absorption
percutaneous cholangiography
percutaneous nephrostomy
percutaneous stimulation
percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography
percutaneous transluminal angioplasty
percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
percutaneous umbilical blood sampling
percutaneously
perdendo

Literary usage of Percussively

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

1. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1847)
"That waves in a broken state strike erections in the sea, in a manner to act powerfully and percussively, as hydraulic rams by their ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1881)
"... Ingersoll, Wood, and other machines operate percussively ; the diamond drill (which see) abrasively. Rocker. A short trough in which auriferous sands ..."

3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"The most successful coal-cutting machines may be uded under two types: (1) Those that act percussively FIG. 1 cut with a single large chisel, very much like ..."

4. United States Mineral Lands: Laws Governing Their Occupancy and Disposal by Henry Norris Copp (1882)
"... Ingersoll, Wood, and other machines operate percussively; the diamond drill (which see) abrasively. Rocker. A short trough in which auriferous sands are ..."

5. Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects by Royal Institution of Naval Architects (1879)
"... has attempted to carry out a system of machine riveting upon the sides of the ordinary iron ship percussively by means of steam riveters. ..."

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