The moisture content of the dowels is lower than that of the posts, and over time the dowels expand, locking the posts together and creating a structural load-bearing system without the use of glue or nails.
One could expand lock-key by making it quantitative so that the amount of individual matching locks and keys would matter [18], [27].
Expanding metal wedges known as quoins are inserted; the type is "planed" (gently evened out using a wooded block); and the quoins are fully expanded, locking everything firmly into place.
Ronald Lewis, Baum's streetcar track repairman, lived through Hurricane Betsy during his adolescence, and in the succeeding decades watched as his neighborhood in the Lower Ninth Ward was scorched by crime and then threatened with extinction from a plan to expand the locks in the city's Industrial Canal.
"We knew we had to do more than we had at any other time to expand and lock down our vote".
Throughout the New York region, straight hair is going limp, curly hair is expanding, loose locks are dissolving into frizz and hours spent with curling irons are being erased on the way to work.
She wants the company to expand globally to lock in supplies of a key resource, pulp.
Phasing out offshore oil leasing will lead to even larger emissions reductions after 2030, but a decision to expand drilling will "lock in" oil and gas infrastructure and make it harder for the world to transition away from fossil fuels.
Andre attempts to win his father's love and job back by bringing him a tip for Apex radio acquisition to expand Empire's reach and lock out competition.
INGERSOLL-RAND CO., Woodcliff Lake, N.J., bought CISA, Italy, a maker of locks and safes, to expand its line of security products.
