Crossword-Solution: BITSTOCK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bitstock | n. | A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| handle or stock of a tool into which a drilling bit is fixed | 1 answer |
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Sentences with BITSTOCK (5)
From these plates can be seen the progression of the bitstock toward its ultimate perfection in the late 19th century.
This can be seen in figure 39 in a transitional-type bitstock (accession 319556) from the Low Countries.
For example, in 1852, Jacob Switzer of Basil, Ohio, suggested, as had Roubo a hundred years earlier, that the bitstock be used as a screwdriver (fig.
The slow curve of the bitstock, never identical from one early example to another, is lost in later factory-made versions; so too, with the coming of cheap steel, does the combination of wood (walnut) and brass used in the cabinetmaker's bevel slowly disappear; and, finally, in the custom-fitted pistol-like grip of the saw, there is an identity, in feeling at least, between craftsman and tool never quite achieved in later mass-produced versions.
When a bitstock is used, instead of being given a true rotary motion the chuck is merely oscillated through the greater part of the circle and back again.