___ Set (toy for a brainy kid)

Usage examples of erector.

He had always wanted an Erector set, but his parents, believers in as the twig is bent so grows the tree, had refused to buy him one.

Iraq also built 8 indigenous mobile erector launchers and 28 fixed erector-launchers to supplement the Soviet TELs.

It came to an easy stop in front of the skeletal remains of the main house, now a broken erector set of burned timbers and piles of wet, dirty ash.

And then, after Rafe had finally succeeded in building a small, rather shaky fort with his own erector set, Selby had used his catapult to knock down the walls.

Even the erector pili muscle and the sudoriparous gland are often found.

But now all those untouched model airplanes and games and balls and elaborate Erector sets were disquieting indications that his interior fantasy life had been richer than any entertainment that could be provided by Tonka, Mattel, or Lionel.

Once at a site, they came together like a giant Erector set, clipped together over concrete slabs and preassembled metal frames.

Iraq also built 8 indigenous mobile erector launchers and 28 fixed erector-launchers to supplement the Soviet TELs.

They could have sold a million "Babyfaces," a tragi-comic figure consisting of a sweet-faced babydoll head, with a damaged eye, and all its hair ripped out to the roots, jammed onto a spider body made out of Erector Set parts.

Although her hull was slender with its old-fashioned straight-up-and-down bow and graceful champagne-glass stern, her superstructure had the look of a child's erector set gone wild.

The number of gigantic architectonic edifices and the number of artistically dressed boulders we can still marvel at today can only be plausibly explained if we assume the primitive erectors of these works to have been giants or beings with techniques unknown to us.

Upstairs she found Duncan in his room among Erector Set machines he had built when he was twelve, a full-color poster of Princess Pet in the Land of the Ice Cream Star, the Monopoly board in which all seven cousins had played a thirty-eight-hour world series in the spring of 1944.

They had used the motor from an advanced kid's erector set, with self-contained power unit.