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Crandall

ˈkrændəl
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Crandall
    (Stonecutting) A kind of hammer having a head formed of a group of pointed steel bars, used for dressing ashlar, etc.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) crandall
    A masons' tool for dressing stone. It is formed of a number of thin plates with sharp edges, or of pointed steel bars, clamped together, somewhat in the shape of a hammer.
  2. crandall
    To treat or dress with a crandall, as stone.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Prob. from Crandall, a proper name

Usage in the news

Miles Of Hiking Trails At Tolland's Crandall Park. courant.com

Crandall girls basketball team makes Ferris Lady Jackets walk the plank. elliscountypress.com

Ferris traveled to Crandall to face the Lady Pirates Friday looking for a win after a devastating loss to Kaufman earlier in the week. elliscountypress.com

What the Crandall Canyon mine disaster tells us. hcn.org

This file photo shows an aerial view of the Crandall Canyon Mine in Huntington, Utah, Monday, Aug 6, 2007. deseretnews.com

More than four decades after saving dozens of lives in Vietnam, Bruce Crandall has received the Medal of Honor. cbsnews.com

Ruth Wester Crandall, 94, formerly of 57 Evans Street, Mayville, and for the past four years she was at the Chautauqua County Home in Dunkirk, died Tuesday (December 20, 2011) in Brooks Memorial Hospital in Dunkirk. estfieldrepublican.com

MAYVILLE — Ruth Wester Crandall, 94, formerly of 57 Evans Street, Mayville, and for the past 4 1/2 years at the Chautauqua County Home in Dunkirk, died Tuesday (Dec 20, 2011) in Brooks Memorial Hospital in Dunkirk. estfieldrepublican.com

She is the daughter of Emma and Dr Roy Crandall. sungazette.com

Video by Jennifer Crandall and Ben de la Cruz. ashingtonpost.com

Brett Crandall, newest member of the Action 4 News staff, is looking forward to his time in the valley. team4news.com

Bridget Crandall knows that high school is one of the best times in a person's life. gctelegram.com

Bruce P Crandall after he presented him with a letter Tuesday at Cedar Bluff Middle School. knoxnews.com

Harold "Glenn" Custer , 78, of Sebring, passed away on Friday, Nov 16, 2012, at Crandall Medical Center. the-review.com

MAYVILLE — Ashley Crandall of Mayville recently competed at the 2012 New York State Fair 4-H dressage senior level competition in Syracuse. estfieldrepublican.com

Usage in scientific papers

Crandall, P.-L Lions, Viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations.
Large Deviations estimates for some non-local equations I. Fast decaying kernels and explicit bounds

Borwein, D., Borwein, J. M., and Crandall, R. E. (2008). Effective Laguerre asymptotics.
Central Limit for the Products of Free Random Variables

The notion of viscosity solution introduced by Crandall M.G. and Lions P.L. plays a fundamental role in studying Hamilton-Jacobi equations as well as the related problems such as calculus of variation, optimal control, etc.
Regularity of viscosity solutions defined by Hopf-type formula for Hamilton-Jacobi equations

Crandall, R. S. & Williams, R. 1971 Crystallization of electrons on the surface of liquid helium.
Clustering of Ions at Atomic Dimensions in Quantum Plasmas

By devoting a substantial machine network to this task, one can today factor a number of 130 decimal digits (Crandall 1997), i.e. L ≃ 300, giving s ∼ 1018 .
Quantum Computing

Usage in literature

Elyria, Miss C. E. Crandall, bbl. "The American Missionary -- Volume 54, No. 01, January, 1900" by Various

He asked Crandall for the pamphlet, as a loan, and took it away with Crandall's leave. "The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection." by Unknown

By LUCY CRANDALL COMFORT. "Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880" by Various

Crandall, Prudence, iii, 316, 560, 703. "History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)" by Various

Thereupon Crandall launched into a tale that took him the best part of ten minutes to relate. "Dave Porter in the Far North" by Edward Stratemeyer

Philleo, Prudence Crandall, 174. "The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV" by Various

The one figured is from a set in the collection of Mr. C. W. Crandall. "The Bird Book" by Chester A. Reed

The face of the holder of the Crandall Chair of Comparative Literature was a study. "Seven Keys to Baldpate" by Earl Derr Biggers

Miss Crandall was mobbed, and the school was broken up. "Civilization the Primal Need of the Race" by Alexander Crummell

Henry B. Crandall, returned with battery. "Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery" by Theodore Reichardt