Moxon

Cited as Moxon. — 12 quotations

Stuff is said to cast or warp when . . . it alters its flatness or straightness.

If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way.

Flemish steel . . . some in bars and some in gads.

This plate must be a gauge to file your worm and groove to equal breadth by.

The heats smiths take of their iron are a blood-red heat, a white-flame heat, and a sparkling or welding heat.

The joints are let exactly into one another, that they have no play between them.

The coarse file . . . makes deep scratches in the work.

Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel.

Its face . . . so hard that a file will not touch it.

They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping.

Its string is firmly whipped about with small gut.

The threads of screws, when bigger than can be made in screw plates, are called worms.