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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 2 Browse Search
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common watch, having a pendulum which was swayed by the movement of the person in walking; the pulsations being registered in the usual way and shown on the dial. The patentee also attached his pedometers to an ordinary watch, in which case the train of wheels and other parts are placed under the dial-plate or face of the watch. Pee. The point of an anchor-arm which penetrates the ground. The fluke or palm is the expanded portion which affords an area of holding surface. The bill. Peek. （Nautical.) The upper end of a fore-andaft sail, sprit-sail, etc.; or the outer end of a gaff. See peak. Peels. Peel. 1. (Bakery.) A wooden shovel with a long handle, used by bakers in putting in and withdrawing loaves to and from the oven. 2. A similarly shaped implement for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or lath to dry. 3. (Nautical.) The wash of an oar. The end inside the gunwale is the loom. Peel′ing-i′ron. A shovel-shaped thrusting-in strument whereb<