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Built-up   /bɪlt-əp/   Listen
Built-up

adjective
1.
Peopled with settlers.






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"Built-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... methods of building up material from small pieces which otherwise would be thrown away. For example, shoe lasts, hat blocks, bowling pins, base-ball bats, wagon bolsters and wheel hubs are now made of short pieces of material which are fastened together with waterproof glue. If this method of built-up construction can be made popular in all sections of the country, very great savings in our annual consumption of wood can be brought about. As matters now stand, approximately 25 per cent. of the tree in the ...
— The School Book of Forestry • Charles Lathrop Pack



Words linked to "Built-up" :   settled



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