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Galveston Island   /gˈælvəstən ˈaɪlənd/   Listen
Galveston Island

noun
1.
An island at the entrance of Galveston Bay.






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"Galveston Island" Quotes from Famous Books



... patented a method of preserving timber, by incasing it in vitrified earthenware pipes, and filling the space between the timber and the pipe with a grouting of hydraulic cement. This was applied to the railroad bridge connecting the mainland with Galveston Island (experiment No. 12), and so well did it seem to succeed at first that it was proposed to extend the process to railroad trestlework, to fencing, to supports for houses, and to telegraph poles. But after a while the earthenware pipes were displaced and broken, the process ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 • Various



Words linked to "Galveston Island" :   Texas, Lone-Star State, TX, island



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