checkerwork

There was a space left at the top of the checkerwork for cleaning purposes.

The idea is that as hot exhaust gases flow through the checkerwork, they give up heat to the bricks.

I learned on coming up that he was trying to tell me not to approach the combustion chamber adjoining the checkerwork.

As the sag lengthened and the checkerwork grew higher, the work began to slow down.

My first sensation, as I stepped off the ladder to the checkerwork inside the stove, was relief.

It was the hot blast that continued to rise from the checkerwork, and made it impossible to work beyond three minutes in the stove.

On his wise shoulders through the checkerwork of leaves the sun flung spangles, dancing coins.

Masses of flue-dust had clogged the holes in the checkerwork and reduced its power for holding heat.

The light oils would be thermocracked as they came in contact with the white hot checkerwork fire bricks inside the carburettor.

Eight foot checkerwork to the hangin', anyway, huh?

Twelve enormous masses of metallic checkerwork, covered with wide cooling fins, almost filled the vast hall.

Someone had long ago ripped out the checkerwork, disconnected the blast pipes, and hacked out a crude door about a foot above ground level.

You muckers, rig a couple of skoufers to throw muck to bury the base and checkerwork up to the hanging wall.

It had been wrapped in tissue and bright ribbon, and inside was a pale-green frock with a checkerwork trim of black velvet.

First there is an industrial zone dominated by stone cutters; then a messy checkerwork of square houses made of stone and brown brick.

The Russians built a classical colonial city, a vast checkerwork of right-angled streets that quickly swallowed up the medieval Turkic city.

She paused for a moment, hating the silent checkerwork of moonlight and shadow in the room outside and sensing through her skin the shortness of time.

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.

John set to work at once, and I after him, rattling my rod in the checkerwork with all my strength, and pushing her in up to the hilt.

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.

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.

That haze was gone now, burned off in the dragon's greater fire; the whole town lay open to the mild, heatless glitter of the winter sunlight, a checkerwork of rubble and bones.

A regenerator consists of a brick checkerwork: bricks laid with spaces equivalent to a brick's width between them, so that air can flow relatively easily through the checkerwork.

When I mounted the ladder, and moved out into the air, I thought, "I haven't learned much from Tony, except that he somehow cleaned the checkerwork, and it's best to keep the head high; no more bending."

One of the stoves is 'on gas', receiving hot gases from the furnace top and heating the checkerwork inside, whilst the other is 'on blast', receiving cold air from the blowers, heating it and passing it to the blast furnace.