10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEAUMONTAGUE»
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F Beattie, originally a principal assistant at the Bridge , spoke of having dismissed
the whole of the men he had found filling crevices in castings with beaumontague
. That aid to engineers - frequently mentioned during the Inquiry - will probably ...
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The English dialect dictionary
BEAUMONTAGUE, sb. Sc. th. Lan. Ken. Also written bomontagu thfil A kind of
putty; see below. Frt'. At the Tay Bridge inquiry here,frequent mention has been
made of the filling up ofblow-holes, &c., in the columns of the bridge, with a
mixture ...
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Henley's Encyclopaedia of Practical Engineering and Allied ...
Beaumontague is a stopping used by pattern-makers, and by wood-workers
generally, for filling holes and damaged places. It is generally a mixture of shellac
, resin, beeswax, and lemon chrome. These are melted together and thoroughly ...
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Henley's encyclopædia of practical engineering and allied ...
Beaumontague can be purchased ready made in a great variety of colours.
Pattern-makers also use chalk, pounded finely, and mixed with varnish, as a
filling. Beaumontague for holes in castings is made, just as cement is for the
joints of tank ...
Joseph Gregory Horner, 1906
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Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Beauclerc (good scholar). Applied to Henry I (1008, 1100-35), who had clerk-like
accomplishments, very rare in the times in which he lived. Beaumontague or
Beaumontage. Material used for filling in accidental holes in wood- or metal-work
, ...
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 2001
{inless the quality of the brain can be represented at the same time as the
quantity, brain measurement cannot be assumed as an indication of the
intellectual position of races any more than of individuals.' Beaumontague—a
substance which ...
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notes and queriesL a medium of intercommunication for ...
for this survey, it was not to be found. Can any of your correspondents say where
it now is ? J. L. J. Conservative Club. "Beaumontague." — At the Tay Bridge
inquiry here, frequent mention has been made of the filling up of blow-holes, &c,
...
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The Chambers Dictionary
12 for hurricane [Devised by Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857) English admiral
and hydrogra- pherj Beaujolais bo-:lw-la. n a red or white wine of east central
France. [From Beaujolais. a subdivision of Lyonnais] beaumontague or
beaumontage ...
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Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
Beaumontague — a substance which has recently been brought prominently
before the notice of the public in connection with the ironwork of the ill-fated Tay
Bridge — is a composition of borings, brimstone, pitch, sal-ammoniac, rosin, and
...
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The New international encyclopaedia
BEAUMONTAGUE, bô-mon'ta-gû. A composition of iron borings, brimstone, pitch,
sal ammoniac, rosin, and beeswax, which is used to fill up cracks and flaws in an
iron casting, and so to give falsely an appearance of solidity. The ingredients ...
Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby, 1906
