(n.) A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
(2) The Walter’s Tools library in Cumbria loans out a heritage collection of billhooks and scythes; modern share shops have shelves of useful stuff you only need occasionally, as do your neighbours .
(3) Foule Crag may sound Chaucerian, and indeed can prompt the kind of Anglo-Saxon language found in The Miller's Tale; it is as inextricably linked with Sharp Edge as is the wickedly curved tip on a Staffordshire billhook.
Tine
Definition:
(n.) Trouble; distress; teen.
(v. t.) To kindle; to set on fire.
(v. i.) To kindle; to rage; to smart.
(v. t.) To shut in, or inclose.
(n.) A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tined transvenous pacing leads were inserted into nine healthy large-breed dogs as part of an experimental study evaluating an implantable defibrillator.
(2) With the advent of tined transvenous cardiac pacing leads, the complete extraction of pacing leads in the treatment of an infected cardiac pacing system has become increasingly difficult.
(3) The introduction of the tined atrial J lead has decreased the incidence of atrial lead dislodgment, allowing for continued effective sensing and pacing.
(4) Natasha Orekhova, 26, a public relations specialist with a real estate firm, stood next to a friend who carried a fork with a pretend snake spiked on its tines, a reference to Putin calling the protesters Bandar-logs, the monkeys hypnotised by a python in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book.
(5) Fixation included tines or fins (160), screw (40), flange (12), and other (16).
(6) Results obtained with immunotherapy in 318 cases of lung cancer showed that an initial Tine test is useful prognostically (initial negativity is equivalent to poor survival), and survival increases and decreases in function of positivity and negativity respectively.
(7) Ookinetes of Haemoproteus meleagridis were structurally similar to kinetes of other apicomplexan parasites and possessed a polar ring complex (PRC) composed of an electron-lucent polar ring with 25 supporting tines.
(8) and Tuberculin Tine tests were performed on 393 in-patients on a chest unit.
(9) The tined tip of a ventricular pacemaker electrode was entrapped in the chordae of the tricuspid valve and could not be removed by subtle manipulations in two patients.
(10) The aim of this study was to assess the effect of difference in tine diameter on probing pocket depth measurement.
(11) With the Mantoux test 52 (27%) were tuberculin-positive and 19 (9.8%) were positive with the tine test.
(12) Eighty-four patients with culture-positive Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections of the lung were evaluated with the Mono-Vacc and tine tuberculin skin tests.
(13) Tine-test was negative in all subjects and converted to positive in 106 out of 109 patients after vaccination.
(14) Therefore, the tined J-leads fulfill all requirements of a suitable atrial electrode.
(15) The tine test is unsuitable for epidemiological use because of the high proportion of negative and doubtful results in people positive on the Mantoux test.
(16) No conversions from negative to positive tine test results occurred after sludge had been applied to the farms.
(17) Biopsy samples of the main beams and tines were obtained from the antlers of mature Rocky Mountain mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) during the rapid phase of the antler grow-th cycle.
(18) A variety of lead types were used: passive fixation with preformed J (including tines or fins in a solid electrode); porous tip electrodes with small tines, most of which were also preformed; active fixation leads (both straight and preformed); and finally bipolar leads, which were all preformed.
(19) The use of tined leads and careful technique may minimise the likelihood of transvenous lead displacement.
(20) Only tined leads with silicone insulation were used.