What is "sheet-metal"

Usage examples of "sheet-metal".

They beat them with ball-peen hammers and hacked them with sheet-metal shears.

This was all in the Third, or Sheet-Metal, Age of Lower Middle Earth, and the lands of that age have long since dropped into the sea and their inhabitants into bell jars at the Ripley's Believe-It-or-Not Odditorium.

The chicken coops were nestled next to the single-story sheet-metal structure of the machine shop, and the ground around them was well trodden.

I stared at peeling walls, rusted iron entrails, weird urban sculptures of cinder block and corrugated iron, the lightning flashes of welders, tire stores, sheet-metal signs, and sludge: fields and mountain ranges of refuse heaps.

As it passed, he brought down his fist hard on the rear deck sheet-metal with an enormous banging sound that echoed between the faces of the stores.

I turned and walked away, went down to the head and told Red that I couldn't find him a tacker, he'd have to take the job over to the sheet-metal shop and get it welded.

I walked across the yard to the sheet-metal shop where he had his office.

I ducked through the access opening without answering, came to a manhole, went down a jack ladder to the second deck, threaded through a maze of shapes to the sheet-metal toolroom.