erector

Example Sentences

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“It comes apart like a big erector set.”

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024

The official Korean Central News Agency said Kim visited a factory that produces transport erector launchers, or TELs, without saying when he went or where the factory is.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2024

In his free time, Calleia built Meccano erector set models and made models of military equipment, bridges and machinery.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2023

In What Next for the Wellerman? he tells how he had to quit his building trade job as a steel erector after having panic attacks.

From BBC • Jul. 6, 2023

The shield was fitted with a single hydraulic erector and hydraulic sliding platforms, and when complete weighed 194 tons.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad, The North River Division. Paper No. 1151 by Jacobs, Charles M.