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sand jacks

sand jacks is the plural of sand jack.

Meaning of sand jack

Noun

sand jack (plural sand jacks)

  1. A type of jack from which sand can be released gradually in small quantities when lowering something into position.
    • After being rolled into position, the span had to be lowered about 4 in. on to its bearings. This was accomplished by means of sand-jacks—a simple arrangement of piston and cylinder—by which movements to very fine limits are obtained by the controlled release of sand from an opening in the base of...1950 October, “Completion of Flood-Damage Repairs, East Coast Main Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 708

Questions about sand jacks

What is sand jacks the plural of?
Sand jacks is the plural of sand jack.

Words near sand jacks in the dictionary

  1. Sand Hutton
  2. sand in one's vagina
  3. sand iron
  4. sand irons
  5. sand jack
  6. sand jacks
  7. Sand Lake
  8. sand lance
  9. sand lances
  10. sand lark
  11. sand larks

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