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If you've had your Banshee cylinder trued and welded, put the crank into the bottom case and rotate the crank using the rods to do so.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the pyramids the Egyptians created gigantic scientific instruments for measuring the solar year, building their sides trued to the four cardinal directions.

From Time Magazine Archive

If there are two keys the edges and one face may be trued up as just described, and both keys k, Fig.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

The plates are very readily fixed to the circular table h, and the edge of the flange trued up much quicker than by the ordinary means of chipping.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

Smoothing planes are, as the name implies, used to simply smoothen the work surface after it has been trued.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua