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ft-lb

FT-Lb

Definitions

  1. 1
    • : foot-pound.

Examples

  • And virtually all the fastest growth urban regions—Houston, Dallas-Ft.

  • The city employs three times more people in energy than its second place rival, Dallas-Ft.

  • In contrast many red state metros such as Houston, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake, and Dallas-Ft.

  • Not cool stuff like jewels or the gold in Ft. Knox, just words and pictures.

  • Hand­ printed posters at the Vance Avenue Market: CHICKEN BACKS, 12½¢ lb.; HOG MAWS, 15¢: RUMPS, 19¢.

  • It has been shown by Chevandrier, that an acre of land under beech wood accumulates annually about 1650 lb.

  • Saussure made similar experiments, and observed that the quantity of water exhaled by a sunflower amounted to about 220 lb.

  • Now, the column of air resting upon an acre of land contains only about 15,500 lb.

  • The price of the tea sent to Europe varies from fifteen to sixty dollars (£3 to £12) a pikul, of 134 lb.

  • The snow line gradually sinks as one advances north-west, reaching only 2000 or 3000 ft. on the Alaskan coast.