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sealing

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sealing [′sēl·iŋ]
(metallurgy)
Impregnation of porous castings with resins to overcome porosity.
Reducing porosity of an anodic oxide film on aluminum and aluminum alloys by immersion in boiling water.
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The sealing fleet was wintering in San Francisco Bay, and in the saloons I met skippers, mates, hunters, boat-steerers, and boat-pullers.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
Afterwards it used to turn up in all sorts of places--at the bottom of small drawers, among my studs in cardboard boxes--till at last it found permanent rest in a large wooden bowl containing some loose keys, bits of sealing wax, bits of string, small broken chains, a few buttons, and similar minute wreckage that washes out of a man's life into such receptacles.
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What is seven pounds of butter at 1/3, and a stick of sealing wax and four matches?
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