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Definition of Potheads
1. pothead [n] - See also: pothead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potheads
Literary usage of Potheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Telephone Construction, Methods and Cost by Clarence Mayer, John Clifford Slippy (1908)
"potheads for Connecting Main Cable to Distributing Rack Cables.—potheads for
connecting main cable to distributing rack cables are always made by a splicing ..."
2. Telephone Cables: A Handbook of the Design, Construction and Maintenance of by John Clifford Slippy (1913)
"See specifications for Cable Splicing, Chapter III. Defective potheads ...
For method of making potheads, see Chapter III. ..."
3. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1906)
"and there splice on to single-conductor cable, which is taken m. iron conduit up
the pole. These single-conductor cables shoul be equipped with potheads. ..."
4. Transactions by National Safety Council, Association of Iron and Steel Engineers (1921)
"•eached for inspection or replacement without endangering the lives of he workmen.
Figure IV represents a cable pole with the disconnecting potheads ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1917)
"potheads. Standard potheads were used on the cable. In order to correct for the
dielectric losses occurring in these, a special test was conducted on a very ..."
6. EMF Electrical Year Book by Electrical Trade Publishing Company (1921)
""Three I-ine Go*,W Electric Specialty Co.. 7«0-f,2 p W.. ago Ave'' Chicago, 111.
"G & 00- 6301 st- PC potheads are made in four voltage class- ..."
7. TransactionsElectric engineering (1869)
"Fields, Cadwell 656-60 1946 Porcelain potheads, A New Technique in the Manufacture of
... 1261 1949 potheads 69000 Volts and Below, Design Fundamentals of. ..."
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