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noun

engineering the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool

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How to use thread rolling in a sentence

They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.
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“Gently rolling hills” roll not-so-gently under my tires, but the English countryside scenery is soporific.
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Mullins quotes Stewart from an interview with Rolling Stone.
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In the same house where Rolling Stone's Jackie says she was.
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Redlich noted that this is another common thread in false confessions.
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Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden
The first steam rolling mill, with the exception of the one at Soho, was put up at Bradley ironworks.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
But it was the labyrinth for which the earlier economist held, so he thought, the thread.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The face of the country through this part of Ireland is moderately rolling, though some fair hills appear in the distance.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
The organism is an actively motile spiral thread, about four times the diameter of a red corpuscle in length.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd