What is "callipers"

Usage examples of "callipers".

Well, this is a race which will be remembered by one and all to their dying day, as Loose Living beats the barrier a step, and is two lengths in front before you can say Jack Robinson, with a third by the name of Callipers second by maybe half a length, and with the others bunched except Never Despair, and where is Never Despair but last, where he figures.

Anyway, a very strange spectacle now takes place in the stretch, as all of a sudden Loose Living seems to be stopping, as if he is waiting for a street cab, and what is all the more remarkable Callipers and Goose Pimples also seem to be hanging back, and the next thing anybody knows, here comes Jockey Scroon on Never Despair sneaking through on the rail, and personally it looks to me as if the jock on Callipers moves over to give Jockey Scroon plenty of elbow room, but of course the jock on Callipers may figure Jockey Scroon has diphtheria, and does not wish to catch it.

And she worked swiftly with callipers and her wind-deflection computer.

The whole outfit seemed designed to contrast sharply with the black callipers that supported her withered leg.

The heads, we may assume, are likenesses, produced by some toilsome artisan with a pair of callipers and a feeble concept of the human spirit.

When the truck's tarpaulin was removed, Joe and Ray bolted the callipers to the bomb.

As soon as Ray disengaged the callipers and the pulley was lifted free, Foote's men set a canvas tent over the bomb and the security cars drove off.

He tested the battery with a flash-lamp bulb mounted on callipers, then slipped it into a recess in the camera.