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guides [gīdz] (mechanical engineering) Pulleys to lead a driving belt or rope in a new direction or to keep it from leaving its desired direction. Tracks that support and determine the path of a skip bucket and skip bucket bail. Tracks guiding the chain or buckets of a bucket elevator. The runway paralleling the path of the conveyor which limits the conveyor or parts of a conveyor to movement in a defined path. (mining engineering) Steel, wood, or steel-wire rope conductors in a mine shaft to guide the movement of the cages. Timber, rope, or metal tracks in a hoisting shaft, which are engaged by shoes on the cage or skip so as to steady it in transit. The holes in a crossbeam through which the stems of the stamps in a stamp mill rise and fall. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As soon, therefore, as the guides entered the kitchen, he began to examine who the ladies were, and whence they came; but the guides, though they faithfully related all they knew, gave him very little satisfaction. My head man had never before been in this part of the country and the guides who were to have accompanied me from the last village we passed knew even less of the country than we. Although I had some lingering doubts, I feigned great delight with Toby at this announcement, while my companion broke out into a pantomimic abhorrence of Typee, and immeasurable love for the particular valley in which we were; our guides all the while gazing uneasily at one another as if at a loss to account for our conduct. |
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