in pieces
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They were little better than tramways, supported by cross- ties with longitudinal stringpieces covered with thin strips of iron.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John
She came in closer and closer, so close that Wilbur could hear the talk of the fishermen sitting on the stringpieces.
From Moran of the Lady Letty by Norris, Frank
The sides were now boarded up with upright slabs nailed to the stringpieces.
From The Scientific American Boy Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island by Bond, A. Russell (Alexander Russell)
A flight of rickety, wooden stairs pitched downward from the edge of the grassy bank to a wharf at the water’s edge—the mere skeleton of a wharf now, outlined only by decaying stringpieces.
From Special Messenger by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
The upper and lower ends of the uprights were then connected with slabs, called stringpieces.
From The Scientific American Boy Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island by Bond, A. Russell (Alexander Russell)
