checkerwork
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of checkerwork
Example Sentences
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The stove, as I said, looked like a very tall boiler: half was a long brick-lined flue, where the gas burned; half, a mass of brick checkerwork for retaining the heat.
From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Charles Rumford Walker
My first sensation, as I stepped off the ladder to the checkerwork inside the stove, was relief.
From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Charles Rumford Walker
My arms were too long and shot from my sleeves, when poking out, and got exposed to the gas and flame, which were still rising in the checkerwork.
From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Charles Rumford Walker
Twelve enormous masses of metallic checkerwork, covered with wide cooling fins, almost filled the vast hall.
From Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
That's what the checkerwork and fins are for—so that it can absorb the maximum amount of heat from the current of hot, moist air I spoke about.
From Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
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