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A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.
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Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.
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Specif (Leather Manuf.), one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
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In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.
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One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.
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A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.
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Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
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An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc.
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To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests.
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Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections.
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A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic.
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The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, and the like; especially, the art of stonecutting.
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A four-wheeled covered vehicle, the top of which is divided into two sections which can be let down, or thrown back, in such a manner as to make an open carriage.
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Consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into sections; as, a sectional steam boiler.
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To form into sections.
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To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
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One of the sections or chapters of the Koran, which are one hundred and fourteen in number.
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An optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals.
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Dividing into cells or segments; characterized by separation into two or more parts or sections by the formation of internal partitions; as, merismatic growth, where one cell divides into many.
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A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.
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