Meaning of longshoot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of dredger that ejects sand and sediment through a long stream.
   countable, uncountable
2. A long unbranching section of growth.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“The working of the dredging machines improves every day, owing to the constant ameliorations in the various parts, and the increased experience⟳ of the crews; the conditions of labour have⟳ become⟳ much better now that the canal is open⟳ throughout its whole length, and that dredging is performed at greater depths; all the longshoot machines are intended to work⟳ night and day without intermission; the others, better and better served, will be able thenceforth to make⟳ longer days.”

“The section includes also combination bucket and suction dredges, true suction dredgers, the Friihling dredge, the reclamation dredge, the longshoot dredge, the hopper barge, the self-propelling hopper, and the rock cutter.”

“They make⟳ a patent rockcutter fo excavating rock under water without explosives, bucket dredgers and suction dredgers of all types, suction hopper dredgers with Robinson cutter for clay, suction plant⟳ for pumping out barges alongside, longshoot dredgers, hopper barges of all kinds, gold, tin and platinum dredgers, dipper dredgers, sternwheel steamers, lighters and barges, floating plant⟳ of every description, either launched or in pieces for shipment, and spare⟳ parts or renewals for any of the above.”

“It is likely that in future, standard meadow orchard applications will be with GA4/ 7 at 400 micrograms per ml painted on to buds with the potential to initiate strobili, at the time of longshoot differentiation.”

“Some of this carbon may have⟳ been obtained at the expense of root and longshoot growth: the defoliated trees did not produce⟳ any longshoots, whereas the control⟳ trees did.”

“Leaves of vegetative shoots are alternate simple, deciduous; vegetative longshoot blades 2–9 cm long, 1.5–6 cm wide; broadly elliptic, ovate, or nearly orbicular, broadest at or below the middle;”

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