Feather and Tare

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“Two pieces of metal placed in a hole in a stone which is to be split a wedge-shaped key or plug being driven between them for this purpose.” -Whitney, 1911

Keywords

Rock, mining, Metal Tools, wedge, feather and tare, granite splitting, split stone

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Source

William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911)

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