Thro some tall spyre the shaftes in a torn clevis flie. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
The depth of the furrow should be adjusted at the clevis. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book of Farming] Reference
I collected some delicious new words: clevis, peen, zerk. From Wordnik.com. [The Dirty Life] Reference
Insert the hook at the end of the wire rope into the clevis. From Wordnik.com. [Winching How-To: Never Get Your Truck Stuck Again] Reference
"The clevis has broke -- look out!" yelled Plum, turning pale. From Wordnik.com. [Jack North's Treasure Hunt Or, Daring Adventures in South America] Reference
An iron beam-plow with rolling coulter and double clevis 96 54. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book of Farming] Reference
They would put a clevis around your feet and run a bar through it. From Wordnik.com. [Thorsness, Leo K.] Reference
The clevis is also used on some plows to regulate the width of the furrow. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book of Farming] Reference
Next, run the clevis through both loops of the protector and secure with the pin. From Wordnik.com. [Winching How-To: Never Get Your Truck Stuck Again] Reference
To the top ring, tie a 5-foot leader and connect a crawler harness with a quick-change clevis. From Wordnik.com. [Today's Best Walleye Anglers Are Inventing New Ways to Land More Fish.] Reference
Some plows have a double clevis so that the draft ring may be raised or lowered, or moved to right or left. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book of Farming] Reference
It was hardest if they put the clevis behind because they'd bend you forward and put your head under the bar. From Wordnik.com. [Thorsness, Leo K.] Reference
On some plows there are only notches in the clevis for holding the ring, they answer the same purpose as holes. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book of Farming] Reference
To the lever is attached a strong clevis, to receive the hook of the chain, that is secured to the stump to be pulled. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
Arranged to traverse on circles fitted with Bossed Sockets for pivoting, and with clevis-bolts and sockets for housing. From Wordnik.com. [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference
A heel chain clevis, and two hame line rings need replacing, and that means reworking and riveting the harness as well. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Engineer]
Anybody know what a "clevis" is?. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Each roll is adjustable by independent clevis assemblies. From Wordnik.com. [PRWeb - Daily News Feed] Reference
But Irish Fallon reached for him as he fumbled at the clevis. From Wordnik.com. [The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest] Reference
An example of the type of work undertaken in the sector is the production of clevis joints. From Wordnik.com. [Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news] Reference
The battle was fought on the line of the cross-bar and in the triangle between it and the clevis. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World] Reference
He had been without rest for many nights, and sleep soon bound him in its own clevis and manacles. From Wordnik.com. [The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times] Reference
He was not sure that the clevis-pin had not been loosened by the collision with the stone just now. From Wordnik.com. [The end of the world] Reference
The only clevis that he could not open was one in which a stout cotter pin was passed through the end of the clevis-pin and strongly bent. From Wordnik.com. [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference
A moldboard, a colter or a new clevis, with a letter from Farmer John. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen] Reference
No ordinary clevis would hold him. From Wordnik.com. [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference
Fierce as a clevis from a rocke ytorne. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
The clevis is on the height called Mont. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World] Reference
Right Aft Center clevis preps are complete. From Wordnik.com. [NASASpaceFlight.com] Reference
A retention pin not retained in clevis hole. From Wordnik.com. [NASASpaceFlight.com] Reference
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