 | Industrial arts - 1763 - 1246 pages
...SKATE. FLAKE, among gardeners, a kind of Ifiiped carnations, with only two colours. FLAMftHAU, a_kind of large taper, made of hempen wicks, by pouring melted wax on thrir top, and letting it run dowrt to -the bottom. This done, they lay them to dry ; after which they... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 752 pages
...much, it is said to flair over. This makes the ship more roomy aloft, for the men to use their arms. FLAMBEAU, a kind of large taper, made of hempen wicks,...table, and join four of them together by means of a red-hot iron; and then pour on more wax, till the flambeau is brought to the size required. Flambeaus... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...their arms. FLAMBEAU, a kind of large taper, made of hempen wirks, by pouring moltcrf wax on lln ir top, and letting it run down to the bottom. This done,...them to dry; after which they roll them on a table , und join four of them together by means of a red- hot iron; and then pour on inore wax, till the... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 482 pages
...FLAMBSAU, a kind of large taper, made of hempea \vir.ks, by pouring melted wax on their top, and jetting it run down to the bottom. This done, they lay them...table, and join four of them together by means of a redhot iron ; and then pour on more wax, till the flanv beau is brought to the size required, Flambeaus... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 474 pages
...-skin, that ties the caplins together. 'LAMBEAU, a kind of large taper, made of hempen wicks, by pom-ing melted wax on their top, and letting it run down to...; after which, they roll them on a table, and join tour of them together by means of a redhot iron ; and then pour on more wax, till the flambeau is brought... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 962 pages
...FLAMBEAU, a kind of large taper, made of hempen s, by pouring melted wax on their top, and Jettiji<r it ran down to the bottom. This done, they lay them to dry...table, and join four of them together by means of a redhot iron ; and then pour on more wax, till the flambeau is brought to the size required, Flambeaus... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 406 pages
...much, it is said to flair over. This makes the ship more roomy aloft, for the men to use their arms. FLAMBEAU, a kind of large taper, made of hempen wicks,...table, and join four of them together by means of a red-hot iron ; and then pour on more wax, till the flambeau is brought to the size required. Flambeaus... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 408 pages
...much, it is said to flair over. This makes the ship more roomy aloft, for the men to use their arms. FLAMBEAU, a kind of large taper, made of hempen wicks,...table, and join four of them together by means of a red-hot iron ; and then pour on more wax, till the flambeau is brought to the size required. Flambeaus... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 646 pages
...repair any breach. — We speak also of a flake of snow. (See Snow.) FLAMBEAU; a kind of large tnpnr, made of hempen wicks, by pouring melted wax On their top, and letting it run down to the Imttom. This done, lay them to dry, after which roll them on a table, and join four of them together... | |
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FLAMBEAU, a kind of large taper, made of hempen wicks, by pouring melted wax on their top, and letting it run down to the bottom. This done, they lay them to dry, after which they roll them on a table, and join four of them together by means of a red-hot... 
