(n.) A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel.
(n.) A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck.
(n.) A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick.
(n.) An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire.
(n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
(n.) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2.
(v. t.) To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up.
(v. t.) To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully.
(v. i.) to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pilgrims have been undeterred by the collapse of a construction crane in Mecca earlier this month, which killed more than 100 people and injured at least 200.
(2) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(3) Although the cranes swing, much of the new living zones now being created range from the ho-hum to the outright catastrophic.
(4) Video of Mecca pilgrim on 'hoverboard' divides opinion Read more The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, whose country is home to tens of millions of Muslims, said on Twitter: “My thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who lost their lives in the crane crash in Mecca.
(5) The ONS said employees working in lower skilled jobs, such as crane drivers and heavy goods vehicle drivers, worked the longest paid hours a week in the UK at a respective 52.8 and 48.4 hours – longer than the 48-hour limit set in the EU Working Time Directive, for which UK employees have a right to opt out.
(6) Sasaki, like other machinery operators, spends his shift inside crane and digger cabins, the only way they can clear dangerously radioactive debris.
(7) The tail of the plane, with its red AirAsia logo, was lifted out of the water on Saturday using giant balloons and a crane.
(8) Historically, this was the farm and winery of the château of Saint-Victor des Oules, but it's been sympathetically converted into eight houses and apartments (sleeping from two to six people) by its British owners Emma and Michael Crane, who moved here with their young family in 2012.
(9) In the weeks that followed, the crosses on 15 churches in the Wenzhou region were destroyed and removed by crane.
(10) This week we see that the ramifications of corporate prostitution continue to hurt her as juniors (looking at you, Harry Crane) use the knowledge of what happened to both blackmail the company and denigrate her.
(11) Filming was difficult in 3D and 10,000ft up a mountain, requiring 70ft camera cranes and a 100 crew.
(12) They waited, swaying like new calves, still wet from their tarry sacs, swinging umbrella-sized cranes.
(13) Workers in the following job categories experienced the highest annual mean PbB levels: paste machine operators (battery plants), solder-grinders (assembly plants), and crane operators (foundries).
(14) During the first meiotic division in crane-fly spermatocytes, the two homologs of a metaphase bivalent each bear two sister kinetochores oriented toward the same pole.
(15) Areas of reduced birefringence (ARBs) produced on chromosomal fibres of crane-fly spermatocyte spindles by ultraviolet microbeam irradiation move poleward.
(16) Engineers have beefed up the cranes that will move the fuel.
(17) We subjected individuals of four species of cranes (Anthropoides virgo, Balearica regulorum, Grus grus and Grus japonensis) to acute heat stress to investigate the effectiveness of this trait as a thermoregulatory adaptation.
(18) Mark Crane also emails: The main fights usually start with ring entrance about 10pm Central USA (4amBST?)
(19) Bird and the cast have shot only 20 seconds or so, after being flown out to Malia last year to film a sweeping crane shot of them walking along a Cretian nightclub strip.
(20) However, only alanine aminotransferase was higher in clinically affected cranes than in normal cranes collected from the same area.
Dachshund
Definition:
(n.) One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough-haired and the smooth-haired.
Example Sentences:
(1) Injection sites may be selected further cranially in German Shepherd Dogs (L4-5) than in Dachshunds (L5-6).
(2) She has had things to fall back on – North, the rest of her family, a newly acquired mini dachshund puppy, Lola, her beloved baking – but they have been sorely needed.
(3) Apart from the Singers and their two dachshunds, Maisie and Bess, no one else is allowed to live on Herm except those who work there or have direct family who do.
(4) Location of maximal spinal cord width was different between the breeds, consistent with the apparent, more caudal termination of the cord in the Dachshunds.
(5) Poodles (38.14%) and dachshunds (23.71%) were the mainly affected races.
(6) Pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in two unrelated Miniature Dachshunds is reported.
(7) An extract of mixed dog hair and dandruff from six different dog breeds (alsatian, boxer, collie, poodle, and long-haired and short-haired dachshund) was obtained by mild extraction, centrifugation, dialysis and freeze-drying.
(8) Calcified discs were estimated to occur in 23.5% of Norwegian dachshunds.
(9) The occurrence of calcified discs in standard-sized dachshunds was higher in the wirehaired variety (27.1%) than in the smoothcoated (16.4%) or longhaired (9.1%) varieties.
(10) In 44 dachshunds of both sexes, reared and held under identical conditions in order to investigate the effects of the merle gene, ophthalmologic examinations were performed.
(11) A male miniature rough-haired dachshund, presented with episodic haematuria, was found to be a female pseudohermaphrodite.
(12) In a 13-year-old, male rough-haired Dachshund with a malignant melanoma, cytogenetic evaluation of tumour cells showed hyperdiploidy (79 to 81 chromosomes) in 50 per cent of the metaphases.
(13) However, within the longhaired variety the occurrence was higher in dwarfs and kaninchens (36.0%) than in standard-sized dachshunds (9.1%).
(14) Large numbers of eccentrocytes (erythrocytes with hemoglobin contracted to one side of the cell) were seen on a stained blood smear from a Dachshund with compensated hemolytic anemia.
(15) Animal insurance statistics from 1982 to 1990 (1983 excluded) for dogs less than 10 years old showed that claims for veterinary care or death or euthanasia were five times more common in the cavalier King Charles spaniel than in dachshunds (P < 0.001) and eight times more common than the mean for all other insured breeds (P < 0.001).
(16) The spinal cords in the Dachshunds terminated further caudally than those in the German Shepherd Dogs.
(17) Of the breeds Boxers showed a high incidence of incontinence (65%) while breeds such as German Shepherds (10.6%) or Dachshunds (11.1%) showed a low incidence in relation to the average incidence rate (20.1%).
(18) The German Shorthaired Pointer, Weimaraner, Golden Retriever, Boxer, and Cocker Spaniel breeds had significantly higher risk and Dachshunds and Beagles had significantly lower risk, as compared with all breeds combined.
(19) But I think it is up to you how much research you do on the couple or individual that you are going to leave her with.” Millbank, keenly aware of the specialist knowhow needed to care for a dachshund, is cautious in vetting would-be walkers.
(20) Heinz Tomato Ketchup: ‘Wiener Stampede’ (starts at 02:11) If the singing sheep didn’t do it for you, then see if a field of stampeding dachshunds dressed as hot dogs can cut the mustard, as it were.