Skips
[skips]
Examples
- The steam-shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She skips; she runs along regular enough till half-past eleven, and then, all of a sudden, she lets down. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The rolls were well named, for with ear-splitting noise they broke up in a few seconds the great pieces of rock tossed in from the skips. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When the skips arrived at the giant rolls, their contents were dumped automatically into a superimposed hopper. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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