(n.) A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
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(1) (The novels tell the story of a young virgin, Anastasia Steele, and how she falls in love with a "very attractive" billionaire CEO, Christian Grey, who is big into nipple clamps and floggers, has a "red room of pain", and makes her sign a weird contract in which she agrees to make full and regular use of her local beauty salon.)
Lightweight
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(1) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(2) The system called PRONG (Parallel Recording Of Neural Groups) includes a microelectrode, a lightweight reusable connector, a 24-channel FET-hybrid preamplifier, a 3-band 24-channel amplifier, a 24-channel spike monitor, high-speed digital and analog interfaces and a computer.
(3) To investigate the potential application of radionuclide computed tomography (RCT) to nuclear medicine imaging using 99mTc, a tomographic system using a lightweight scintillation camera for brain imaging was constructed, and lesion contrast with RCT and conventional scintigraphy were compared.
(4) As the houses are lightweight and timber-framed, they don’t need foundations.
(5) The lightweight group consisted of twelve 7- to 9-month-old heifers with a mean initial weight of 201.1 kg.
(6) An undulating lightweight roof is supported by 211 narrow steel columns, sheltering a glass box holding the cafe and shop, and a chestnut timber-covered box holding the displays.
(7) Referee: Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay) So, Drogba and his broken right arm will start on the bench, but surely come on at some point in the second half lightweight cast and all.
(8) Six years before the opening of the Forth Railway Bridge, Gustave Eiffel had completed the lightweight Garabit Viaduct.
(9) He also said it was up to politicians to dismiss the 'lightweight sloganeering of PR men', an apparent reference to the way in which cabinet ministers are asked to chime in with the government over its implementation of a long-term economic plan.
(10) A lightweight fiberglass spica has proven to be useful after repair of the deltoid origin, repair of complete rupture of the rotator cuff, and shoulder arthrodesis.
(11) The use of lightweight darts and a blowgun was found to be useful as a supplement to longer range dart projector systems since many animals could be approached at short range.
(12) It is lightweight, less bulky, easily fabricated, and inexpensive.
(13) Osborne lacked gravitas and was seen as a political lightweight because of his "high-pitched vocal delivery" according to private Conservative polling before the election.
(14) One such device is a frame assembled from components in a lightweight compact set with dimensions of 75 x 20 x 5 cm, weighing approximately 0.5 kg.
(15) They have several others, including the Rokot for placing lightweight military satellites in orbit, and the Dnepr and Strela rockets for small commercial launches.
(16) Combined with the 8 mm tape format, the chip has created a lightweight, single unit camera, monitor, and recorder.
(17) We evaluated eight blood glucose monitors (BGMs), from six manufacturers, that are lightweight, portable, battery-powered, relatively inexpensive handheld reflectance photometers that use test strips for self-monitoring of blood glucose levels.
(18) Arsenal also have familiar opposition in Dortmund, whom they defeated 1-0 in Germany thanks to Aaron Ramsey’s goal last season but suffered a 2-1 defeat against at the Emirates, and no obvious lightweight with Galatasaray awaiting in Istanbul and Anderlecht the fourth name drawn.
(19) A lightweight and completely self-contained traction device is described.
(20) A portable lightweight stimulator for small animals is described.