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peration of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall spread out laterally in a horizontal direction. -- Training college. See Normal school, under Normal, a. -- Training day, a day on which a military company assembles for drill or parade. [U. S.] -- Training ship, a vessel on board of which…

tion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.

tion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.

Adjustable laterally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion. Traversing plate (Mil.), one of two thick iron plates at the hinder part of a gun carriage, where the handspike is applied in traversing the piece. Wilhelm. -- Traversing platform (Mil.), a platform for traversing g…

A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden.

The country rock bounding a vein laterally. Raymond.

Symmetrical bilaterally; -- said of organisms, or parts of organisms, capable of division into two symmetrical halves only in a single plane.