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cylindro-conical

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  • Most larger corporations will seek to optimize efficiencies, which tends to be shorthand for cutting as many corners as possible -- using cheaper ingredients, shortening brewing cycles, using high-volume cylindro-conical fermenters, etc... while trying very hard to convey the message that nothing has changed.

    Contract Brewing, Part IV - Some Thoughts From The Industry 2009

  • Substitute for your spherical shell a cylindro-conical projectile.

    From the Earth to the Moon 2003

  • At the last experiment the cylindro-conical projectiles of

    From the Earth to the Moon 2003

  • The only difficulty was in fishing up a cylindro-conical projectile, the walls of which were so smooth as to offer no hold for the hooks.

    Round the Moon 2003

  • Into the point of a cylindro-conical slug is inserted a thin copper cartridge, loaded with powder, and primed with fulminate of mercury.

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

  • Removed from the foot by maceration a well-shaped hoof is cylindro-conical in form, and appears to the ordinary observer to consist of a box or case cast in one single piece of horn.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • One kind of cartridge -- containing a cylindro-conical bullet of copper-nickel, with a lead core -- serves for all rifles and for the machine guns as well.

    Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller 1901

  • How can you treat me as such? me, who have demanded a cylindro-conical projectile, in order to prevent turning round and round on my way like a squirrel?”

    From the Earth to the Moon 2003

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