26 collocations for clamps

" Angus clamped a heavy hand on the young man's shoulder.

He clamped his jaws shut, knowing that to breathe was to die.

(b) Clamping the Crack.

Another rumble, another jar, not so heavy or so near this time, and then a few sharply connected reports, clamped Dorn as in a cold vise.

Brother Baker saw the pin; two hundred devout Methodists saw him clamp his fingers on Bud Perkins's ear, and march him down the length of the church and set him beside Miss Morgan.

Shots were fired, the bullets whistling through the opening, the flare lighting up the black depths below, revealing vaguely a mass of frantic men staring up, and cursing us fiercely in a dozen languages; but, in spite of them, we clamped the hatch down tight, and locked it securely into place with an iron bar.

" "Well, we didn't quite agree," admitted Molly, snapping shut the cover of the coffee-mill and clamping the mill between her knees.

Sigg had gone ahead with much of the baggage; he met us in an improvised motor-boat, consisting of a dugout to the side of which he had clamped our Evinrude motor; he was giving several of the local citizens of prominence a ride, to their huge enjoyment.

She clamped her mouth on his and put the matter out of reach.

The tentacles clamped their irresistible openings upon the body of the victim, pulling upon the line with such force that it broke, the octopus falling on the bottom with his prey.

" Ken settled himself at the table, scowled at the embossed alphabet, and then clamped a piece of the heavy paper into the slate.

The incrustation had to be very exact, and to get it so, the artist clamped together two plates of equal size and thickness, one of metal, the other of tortoise-shell, traced his design on the top one, and then cut them both out together.

H is a nut to clamp pointer in position.

With all methods of clamping an untoward result is sometimes the formation of a fresh crack at the point of insertion of the clamps. (c) By the Use of Thin Metal Plates.

Place the butt to the shoulder and roll back into position, clamping the rifle hard and steady in the firing position.

The horse started as he was throwing the wrong leg over his saddle, and the tutor clamped his rod under one arm, clutching for the reins with both hands and kicking for his stirrups with both feet.

Zip asked two of St. George's men to locate bolts and go back up to clamp their ship to the surface.

The speed of the train slackened steadily but without jar, until the power of the compressed air clamped the brake-shoes on the wheels

Dolly only clamped down her tail the harder.

In the Willcox & Gibbs machine, and in Singer's single thread machine, shown here, we have an intermittent tension arrangement, which clamps the thread at the right moment, and differs from ordinary tension devices, inasmuch as it may be said to be automatic.

He clamped his teeth hard and fought down the impulse.

In one motion he clamped the weapon and turned it aside; in another he jammed the fire end of his cigar among the fingers of the grasping hand.

But the woman had clamped the wheel and stood holding the bar.

Powerful and weighty a man as Monohan was, Fyfe drove him halfway around with a short-arm blow that landed near his heart, and while he staggered from that, clamped one thick arm about his neck in the strangle-hold.

Off fell the chain clanking on the floor, and nothing left of our bonds but an iron bracelet clamped round the left wrist.

26 collocations for  clamps