An erector is a building contracting firm that specializes in erecting steel framed buildings; usually high rise buildings. From Wordnik.com. [Steel & Glass House Practical?] Reference
At about four feet tall, weighing up to 120 pounds, the robots are best described as erector sets meet computers. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Check out the erector tube lash-up that Sightron uses. From Wordnik.com. [Ever wonder why expensive scopes cost so much and where does the money go?] Reference
Then assemble it like an erector set in Mobil, Alabama. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2008] Reference
"It's like a giant erector set," says Southern's Miller. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Co.'s Nuclear Game Plan] Reference
Should the American people pay for personal erector sets?. From Wordnik.com. [Shannyn Moore: Stupak's Flaccid Amendment Needs No Viagra] Reference
They also have an innovative erector tube adjustment lash up. From Wordnik.com. [Return of the Model 70] Reference
For a steel framed building you will need to have an erector. From Wordnik.com. [Steel & Glass House Practical?] Reference
They also have an innovative erector tube adjustment mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [You Bet Your Glass!] Reference
On this corner there was an erector-set type contraption set up. From Wordnik.com. [December in Mazamitla by Ralph Rodriguez with Alan Cogan] Reference
From what I can tell olegt is a clsssic case of a strawman erector. From Wordnik.com. [Berlinski stirring the pot] Reference
We also are after what we call TELS, transporter erector launchers. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2001] Reference
When describing the mechanism, grandpa called the ejector an "erector.". From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
It is sort of an erector set without the need for tedious nuts and bolts. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Tips for Very Simple Machine-Making for 6-Year-Olds?] Reference
Debian is like an erector set: You can build all sorts of things with it. From Wordnik.com. [Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage] Reference
The metal pieces of the erector set make your hands smell like machine oil. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln logs] Reference
It has an innovative erector tube adjustment lash up that seem superior to most. From Wordnik.com. [Gonna need a scope for my heavy barreled 22-250. I don't want to spring for a Leupold VXIII this time. Just too expensive.] Reference
Mr. Brannock made his prototype out of erector-set pieces and applied for a patent in 1927. From Wordnik.com. [Maker of Foot Measurer Tries to Stop Other Shoe From Dropping] Reference
It was transported on, and fired from, an eight wheeled TEL (transporter erector launcher). From Wordnik.com. [Bravo-Two-Zero]
Now imagine if various erector sets could themselves be combined to produce strange results. From Wordnik.com. [Automated Expertise Management] Reference
There are four launcher-erector mechanisms for placing these trailers in erect firing position. From Wordnik.com. [Address to the United Nations Security Council and Exchange with Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin on the Presence of Nuclear Missiles in Cuba] Reference
Any given time there's any number off our coast, coming, going, on transport or erector launchers. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2002] Reference
And beneath that gray structure, that steel erector set-like structure is the Space Shuttle Discovery. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2005] Reference
Straight out of an old erector set, it spanned a wide river basin flanked by deep ravines and lush grass. From Wordnik.com. [Deadly Promises] Reference
Aside from that, I have an engineer for a dad who bought me my first erector set when I was in second grade. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
The scope is a 1968 mod. with a forward erector, signified by a tiny dimple about 7/8 behind the front bell. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Metal Meets the Meat] Reference
Here are the missiles here, here, and here, three missiles on each one of these transporter erector launchers. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2001] Reference
The erector muscles of the spine (sacrolumbalis, longissimus dorsi and multifidus spinæ) weighed fully 16 lbs. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
They have the rotating service structure, the erector set thing closed over it now so they can get access to it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2005] Reference
Check out this difference engine made from a Mechano set what we used to call an "erector set" back in the dark ages. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: While We're on the Subject...] Reference
I kept my toys there, mostly, and spent many happy hours with my soldiers and erector sets, and, a little later, books. From Wordnik.com. [SPOTLIGHT on Justin Gustainis! And a contest too! « Urban Fantasy Land] Reference
In this case a typical small entry wound was situated at the outer margin of the left erector spinæ muscle in the loin. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
The shield was fitted with a single hydraulic erector and hydraulic sliding platforms, and when complete weighed 194 tons. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad, The North River Division. Paper No. 1151] Reference
Having mastered wooden building blocks and cardboard models, passed erector sets and toy trains, I had reached the level of. From Wordnik.com. [Horst L. Störmer - Autobiography] Reference
It is doubtful that you will find a qualified erector in México that will erect such a small building at a reasonable price. From Wordnik.com. [Steel & Glass House Practical?] Reference
All those new billion dollar Chinese sports complexes look like gossamer, erector sets in the hands of young methed architects. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Clinton: Don't Hold Your Breath] Reference
Enough, I�m beginning to sound like a kid again playing with his newly found erector set��. .boy, does that date me�. From Wordnik.com. [Magic Jack] Reference
They are cultural artifacts, our “national psychic erector sets which we've put together in different ways depending on our mood.”. From Wordnik.com. [Other Simulated Worlds] Reference
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