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    sheathing


    1. When Harry had five courses of the floor planking completed, the cross-members of the roof, and all round the upright studs of the walls were in place, and the little room was ready for sheathing


    2. They turned to the clapboards for the sheathing


    3. "How do you know this?" Brice asked, walking past Nathalia who was sheathing her blades


    4. Sheathing his sword he studied the note closely, still grimacing - but now more so in anger than revulsion


    5. While paneled in plates and sheathing of alloy metals of various sizes and textures, the fasteners were ferrous and left huge rust streaks on every seam


    6. Sheathing his sword Taher took a step towards Morgan


    7. Sheathing the sword Ardor buckled it around his waist, and went on his way


    8. The wires had a plastic sheathing that


    9. "I think this is mostly siding and roof sheathing from the other barn


    10. ” He paused just a moment before shrugging her off and walked back to the bed, sheathing the knife and stuffing it back in the bag

    11. She wiped her daggers on their robes before sheathing them; when it was done she picked up her hat and, with an expression of disgust, tossed it to Dana


    12. sheathing but not two black wires from the 'computer' box to the


    13. As well, in its methyl-form Vitamin B12 is necessary for the formation and maintenance of myelin, the protective coating sheathing the axons of nerve cells


    14. “Not another one of those wolfmen,” he said sheathing


    15. away, picking up and sheathing his blade


    16. Sheathing his sword, he turns and steps back to where the World Gate has shut


    17. There was then a sudden silence and in it I made an elaborate show of sheathing my sword, as if to say ‘I was done here’ and turning my back, I started to walk towards the wall as my actions were replicated by the rest of the warriors of the six surviving groups


    18. He then covered her mouth with his roughly and sank hard, sheathing himself deep inside her wet folds


    19. Why did she make him feel as if he were uncertain of himself, insecure, an indefinite thing, as if he had not sufficient sheathing to prevent the night and the space breaking into him? How he hated her! And then, what a rush of tenderness and humility!


    20. The outer sheathing of a twisted-pair cable can be either relatively thin, as in unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cable, or thick, as in shielded twisted-pair (STP)

    21. The walls were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on the prisoners in their beds


    22. The growing tip, enclosed by a crown of leaves or the sheathing bases of the leaf stems, is edible in most palms—eat any that are not too bitter


    23. The graining in the sheathing wood was high, for the dust had cut down the softer wood


    24. Until Cabaco's published discovery, the sailors had little foreseen it, though to be sure when, after being a little while out of port, all hands had concluded the customary business of fitting the whaleboats for service; when some time after this Ahab was now and then found bestirring himself in the matter of making thole-pins with his own hands for what was thought to be one of the spare boats, and even solicitously cutting the small wooden skewers, which when the line is running out are pinned over the groove in the bow: when all this was observed in him, and particularly his solicitude in having an extra coat of sheathing in the bottom of the boat, as if to make it better withstand the pointed pressure of his ivory limb; and also the anxiety he evinced in exactly shaping the thigh board, or clumsy cleat, as it is sometimes called, the horizontal piece in the boat's bow for bracing the knee against in darting or stabbing at the whale; when it was observed how often he stood up in that boat with his solitary knee fixed in the semi-circular depression in the cleat, and with the carpenter's chisel gouged out a little here and straightened it a little there; all these things, I say, had awakened much interest and curiosity at the time


    25. It seems surprising that such a terracotta sheathing should be applied on a structure of stone


    26. — sheathing of ships, on the corrosion of, H


    27. —, sheathing for, of leather, xv, 365


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    Synonyms for "sheathing"

    overlay overlayer sheathing

    "sheathing" definitions

    protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior