sash weight

I had to hide the sash weights and there wasn't much time.

With a dull thud of its sash weights, the window slid open.

The lead sash weights swung in an abrupt downward arc from high above, toward the blond man.

If the window has a sash weight, you'll have to detach the chains or ropes before you can set the window aside.

He fell back on the bed, arms and legs like sash weights socketed into his body, anchors, he couldn't move.

Larger windows are double-pane, but the box frame construction does not allow for wall pockets for sash weights.

He favoured carrying a sash weight wrapped in newspaper for breaking the arms and legs of delinquent debtors.

Maia shoved upward against the window until it slid along wooden tracks, sash weights rattling on both sides.

I believed Elaine had been killed with a sash weight that had been tucked back in the window frame and nailed into place.

The drum was wrapped with chains and sash weights and should have remained buried forever in the silt bottom of the bay.

He ran across the bridge, and for the first time he saw what had happened when he'd sliced the rope and unharnessed the sash weights.

High above them a pair of lead sash weights dangled, anchored in place by means of ropes that were tied to iron hooks.

Retrieve the sash weights and cords or chains from the cavities and buy replacement cord or chain, which is the more durable.

He said: "Think of all the politicians, movie stars, visiting grand dukes and sash weight murderers whom the Banner has trumpeted all these years.

Nailed shut, roped, loaded with sash weights to make it sink, the box was dumped in the East River near Governors Island.

OLD double-hung windows, specifically those of wood counterbalanced with sash weights, are notoriously cantankerous in disrepair, but can often be restored to function beautifully.

Southern features include the standing-seam roof, wood clapboard siding, double-hung windows with sash weights and shutters and plenty of ceiling fans.

(The commandeering of some sash weights for use as miniature mortars eventually leads to Tristram's untimely circumcision by falling window, but that's getting ahead of the story.)

To facilitate operation, the weight of the glazed panel is usually balanced by a heavy steel, lead, or cast iron sash weight or counter-weight concealed within the window frame.

The sash weight is connected to the window by a sash cord or chain that runs over a pulley at the top of the frame, although spring balances are sometimes used.

They observed that the Wall Street bomb was packed with heavy sash weights designed to act as shrapnel, then detonated on the street in order to increase casualties among financial workers and institutions during the busy lunch hour.

The Wall Street facade was pitted in 40 or 50 places by the cut-up sash weights and other metal intended to kill and maim; it is still possible to see the deadly marks visible in the marble.