billets's Usage Examples:

E, Magnesite bricks on which the M, The escaping products of comhot billets slide forward.

As soon as a hot billet A is withdrawn by pushing it endwise out of the exit door B, the whole row is pushed forward by a set of mechanical pushers C, the billets sliding on the raised water-cooled pipes D, and, in the hotter part of the furnace, on the magnesite bricks E, on which iron slides easily when red-hot.

- The Gjers system is not applicable to small ingots or " billets," 1 because they lack the inner surplus heat of large ingots; indeed, they are now allowed to cool completely.

Among manufactures are plate glass and bottles, table ware, paper, bricks, iron and steel articles, and steel sheets and billets.

Morgan for heating billets.

brought from above G to C, Pusher, for forcing billets forbetween N by a flue not ward.

Morgan's Continuous Heating Furnace for 2-inch billets 30 ft.

billets are pushed forward.

with successively cooler and cooler billets, A-F, and finally with quite cold ones, of consequently great heat-absorbing capacity.

billeting officer 's went round knocking on doors, asking how many rooms have you got?To lessen the loss in shape of " crop ends," and for general economy, these billets are in some cases 30 ft.

Synonyms:

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Antonyms:

divest, dethrone, laity, nonhuman, human,