luffer

Example Sentences

• "These luffer boards are either fixed, or turn on pivots in the styles of their frames; their action, in the latter case, being like that of the common Venetian blinds."
• "In the section, the third luffer is supposed to be open; when the lower luffer plate is taken out, the apparatus is to all intents and purposes a Staffordshire grate."
• "Functional and symbolic values coincide; if there rises a column of smoke to the luffer above, this is not merely a convenience, but also a representation of the axis of the universe that pillars-apart heaven and earth, essence and nature, and is itself although without dimensions or consistency the adamantine principle and exemplary form of temporal and spatial extension and of all things situated in time or space."
• "We meet again with a pair of annular symbols, of which the one is a perforated disk representing the Earth (Holmberg, "Der Baum des Lebens," fig 13), and the other the luffer above the central hearth of the yurt, which is also the opening in the roof of a hypaethral temple, through which passes the stem of the Worldtree to branch above."
• "Four of the hydraulic cranes are luffer cranes, one has a radius of 70 feet, two of 60 feet, and one of 46 feet, and these luffer cranes are of the greatest possible value, as it allows of the simultaneous discharge of the ship on the shore."
• "The Scotch luffer, or, more properly, the Scotchman, is, we were told, a great derrick whose introduction has thrown many men out of employment."