Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The lever or handle by which a steam-engine is started, stopped, or reversed.
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Examples
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The sheet part for a brick trowel is to be cut out with the hand-lever shear.
1. Objectives and Subject Matters of Vocational Training in Shearing Techniques 1990
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- Pull hand-lever evenly downwards and follow up cutting effect and cutting direction of upper shear blade.
6. Sequence of Selected Shearing Operations B. Zierenberg 1990
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Cutting off angular section with the hand-lever shear
1. Objectives and Subject Matters of Vocational Training in Shearing Techniques 1990
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The hand-lever can be locked to avoid injuries by its falling down.
2. Tools and Machines B. Zierenberg 1990
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- Set hold-down bar on left-hand sheet surface and release hand-lever lockage.
6. Sequence of Selected Shearing Operations B. Zierenberg 1990
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Respectively an angle, a round and a flat are cut to length with the section blades of the hand-lever shear.
1. Objectives and Subject Matters of Vocational Training in Shearing Techniques 1990
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Why must the hand lever be arrested on the hand-lever shear after the shearing operation?
1. Objectives and Subject Matters of Vocational Training in Shearing Techniques 1990
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The blade clearance also affects the sheet of slightly pitching down that can be compensated by an adjustable hold-down bar on hand-lever shears and shearing machines.
3. General Construction of Shears B. Zierenberg 1990
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The reduction of the hand-lever movement to its simplest and most powerful form is now seen in the Washington hand press, devised by
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With the introduction of other means for applying power than the hand-lever, a distinction came to be drawn between printing _presses_ and printing _machines_.
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