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Definition of Snubbers
1. snubber [n] - See also: snubber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snubbers
Literary usage of Snubbers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook for the Seismic Evaluation of Buildings: A Prestandard, 1998 edited by Ugo Morelli (1999)
"snubbers or other restraining devices are needed to prevent horizontal movement
... If restraints and snubbers are non-existent, mitigation is necessary to ..."
2. Reducing the Risks of Nonstructural Earthquake Damage: A Practical Guide by Eduardo A. Fierro (1995)
"Restraining angles (snubbers) can be installed; properly designed snubbers will
provide seismic restraint while also allowing the acoustic solution to ..."
3. School Earthquake Preparedness GuidebookNature (1994)
"APPENDIX 2 Sufficient gaps to allow springs to isolate motor vibration under
normal use Neoprene "bumper" pads 2 steel "Z" or other typical snubbers on each ..."
4. Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memoires of His Life by Charles Kingsley (1877)
"... or perhaps I—for they have told me so often—can put them into words for them;
but the true snubbers are the cockneys who write for the press, ..."
5. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1883)
"But there is nothing that calls for censure on the part of tho snubbers. They have
acted according to their lights, and unworthy, cruel even as their act ..."
6. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"... and a hand lever and rod bring a brake into action to f heck the running of
the rope by friction applied to the snubbers. A head-fast. ..."
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