Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Trellis-Posts. 3. A vertical pillar foniiing a part of a fence (c),01 tor holding aloft telegraph-wires (d). i. {Furniiicre.) a. One of the uprights of a bed-stead . Fig. LampPosts. Pasls/or Urban Use and Cemetery Lots. b. One of the standards of a chair-back5.(Mmiiig.) One of the pillars of coal or ore which support the ceiling of a mine. 6. (Puper-makin
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Trellis-Posts. 3. A vertical pillar foniiing a part of a fence (c),01 tor holding aloft telegraph-wires (d). i. {Furniiicre.) a. One of the uprights of a bed-stead . Fig. LampPosts. Pasls/or Urban Use and Cemetery Lots. b. One of the standards of a chair-back5.(Mmiiig.) One of the pillars of coal or ore which support the ceiling of a mine. 6. (Puper-making.) a. A pile of one hundredand forty-four sheets of hand-made pajier, freshfrom the mold, and made up with a web of felt be-tween each sheet, ready for the first pressure in ascrew-press. This is a/c^-post. *. A white post is the pile of paper sheets whenthe felts are remowed. c. A size of writing-paper, so called because itsoriginal water-mark was a postmans horn. Twelve varieties of post ]iaper are made in Eng-land, of three sizes and various grades of thickness!They are as follows : — Weight Size. per Ream. Extra large thick post 22,S x 17J inches. 25 pounds. Extra liii-frc ehm post 22Jxl7i 18 Extra lar|»e bank post 22ixl74 Larjre thick post 21 xl6i 22 * Large middle post 21 XIGJ 19 Large thin 21 xlGJ 16 Large bank post 21xl» 11 Extra thick post 19x151 25 TWflP°-; 19 X 1st 20 Wl.
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