This shell does not prevent the interior from drying, but when this drying occurs the interior is commonly checked along the medullary rays, commonly called "honeycombing" or "hollow-horning." ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The hexagonal design makes it easy to add rooms by "honeycombing" more Hexayurts to the original structure. ❋ Renee Davidson (2010)
It is due to the structural peculiarities that "honeycombing" occurs in rapid seasoning, that checks or cracks extend radially and follow pith rays, that tangent or "bastard" cut stock shrinks and warps more than that which is quarter-sawn. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The FireFly infrastructure has been deployed in one of the many coalmines honeycombing the Pittsburgh area. ❋ Unknown (2010)
There are hundreds of them honeycombing this hillside. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Disney Imagineers have tried to cope with the climate by honeycombing the place with covered walkways and putting log-burning fireplaces in the restaurants. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Despite the various fifth columnists portrayed in films and books (and a few in real life), despite the honeycombing of the establishment by Communist agents, those past wars were essentially external ones. ❋ Helen (2006)
"This is what the Construction Ministry is busy building in real life: bridges to uninhabited islands, roads to nowhere honeycombing the mountains, and gigantic overpasses to facilitate access to minute country lanes." ❋ Unknown (2007)
One causes a "swiss cheese" effect, honeycombing existing bone. ❋ Zoe Brain (2007)
They saw shadowy caves along the way, and tunnels honeycombing the cliff every which way. ❋ Hosseini, Khaled (2007)
A series of small wooden corridors and staircases, but as Stephen further manipulated the walls of the dollhouse, it became clear that this hidden hallway opened into most of the rooms, honeycombing the west wing. ❋ Jen Holling (2005)
Moorish arabesquing and the famous stucco honeycombing which we were destined at Seville and Granada to find almost sickeningly sweet. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I am not going to set up rival to the colored picture postals, which give a better notion than I could give of the painted and gilded stucco decoration, the ingenious geometrical designs on the walls, and the cloying sweetness of the honeycombing in the vaulted roofs. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Thinking of all the lobbyists honeycombing the Wash-ington political arena, he said, 'That must be tough work.' ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1990)
The Foke's wooden ship was primitive among the metal vessels honeycombing the dock, their shark bodies polished to black mirrors. ❋ Attanasio, A. A. (1984)
Piles of brown hempen sacks and wide wooden casks filled the harttin, separated by narrow mazelike corridors honeycombing the area. ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1980)
Gently tap around mold with a hammer to settle the concrete and prevent honeycombing. ❋ Unknown (1980)
General Hunt never could locate the place, and shot at short range above five hundred shells doing no damage, but honeycombing the surrounding ground. ❋ D. Augustus Dickert (N/A)
The various commissioners sent by Charles to inspect the quality of his bargain had all agreed in an urgent recommendation to the duke to redeem, at the earliest possible moment, all the troublesome mortgages honeycombing his authority. ❋ Ruth Putnam (N/A)
The unequal shrinkage causes internal stresses in the wood as it dries, which results in warping, checking, case-hardening, and honeycombing. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
