The whole weight of the tubbing is made to bear on the moss, which squeezes outwards, forming a completely water-tight joint.
His earnestness attracted the attention of Sir Henry Rawlinson, who permitted him the use of his room at the museum and placed the many casts and squeezes of the inscriptions at his disposal.
At the end of 1845 they returned home, and the results of the expedition, consisting of casts, drawings and squeezes of inscriptions and scenes, maps and plans collected with the utmost thoroughness, as well as antiquities and papyri, far surpassed expectations.
All stones must be beaten down into their beds until the mortar squeezes up into the joints around them.
The crawls didn't seem too arduous really and the squeezes not ridiculously tight.