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  • All that is necessary is to place the timber in position and bang the bag on the top of the saw-cuts, when sufficient powder will pass through the bag and down the saw kerf to mark the exact positions of the lines.

    Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham

  • For three months I kept the saw-cuts open to the coronet, and continued the bar shoes, keeping the mare at exercise, and giving her occasionally a drive.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • When the contraction is bilateral, the saw-cuts, one or more in number, are placed on each side of the toe-clip.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • According as the contraction is confined to the inner or outer heel, the saw-cuts, one or two in number, are placed to the inner or outer side of the toe-clip.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • -- In fishing with a long ground-line and many hooks, it is of importance to avoid entanglements; make a box in which to coil the line, and a great many deep saw-cuts across the sides, into which the thin short lines, to which the hooks are whipped, may be jammed.

    The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866

  • Two or three short saw-cuts of logs formed as many seats, and the only sign of a bed was a mass of dry leaves, upon which a blanket had been thrown, in a hollow under the overhanging base of the rock.

    The Story of Kennett Bayard Taylor 1851

  • The expansion is governed by saw-cuts through the inner margin of the shoe directed towards its outer margin, and running only partially through the inner half of the web (see

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

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