(n.) An extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half-stratified condition.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can also enjoy the gorge from the Pine Creek Rail Trail : a 62-mile biking and horseback riding path that runs from the town of Jersey Shore in the south to Stokesdale in the north, passing through the heart of the gorge in the middle.
(2) Police, some on horseback, began to gain control of a 200-metre stretch of the high road by around midnight, allowing fire-engines to tackle the raging fires.
(3) Other attempts to boost his image as a tough man of action have included photos of him hunting, arm wrestling, riding horseback and fitting a collar to a tranquilised polar bear.
(4) Police charged the 1,000-strong group on horseback.
(5) Photograph: Dan Chung These days travellers along the route come by bus or plane rather than camel or horseback; laden with cameras rather than goods.
(6) Soldiers on horseback charged into the crowd, and water cannon were used in an attempt to push back the protesters.
(7) The Sudanese government responded by unleashing the janjaweed (Arabic for devil on horseback) militia on the rebels.
(8) In March, up to 400 elephants were killed in a few hours in a park in Cameroon by a Sudanese gang on horseback bearing machine guns .
(9) The point is profit.” It easy to laugh at some of the creations, and some will surely travel to the city just to see the hilariously clumsy statues of painters wielding paintbrushes, large-breasted maidens, and the dozens of rugged warriors on horseback.
(10) To sceptics, he was an opportunist prone to gimmicks – such as the attractive policewomen who paraded around Dalian on horseback when he ran the city.
(11) This report summarizes a study by the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) to characterize all horseback-riding-associated deaths during 1979-1989 and to determine what proportion of riders had used alcohol before death.
(12) Officers were making extra patrols on foot, in vehicles, on bicycles and on horseback.
(13) The article surveys some of the scientific fundamentals of hippo- and riding therapy, and its methods using the characteristic horseback three dimensional rhythmic movement impulses for its therapeutic values, particularly in cerebral palsy.
(14) At Thursday's MPA meeting, Joanne McCartney, a MPA member, pressed Stephenson to clarify the situation over the horseback charge by officers.
(15) In our family, one of the more “liberal” in our church, we were usually allowed to wear pants at home (when we weren’t around other ATI families and for activities like horseback riding), but jeans were strictly forbidden.
(16) After one lieutenant was doused in water from a bottle hurled from the crowd, five officers on horseback arrived from behind the station and positioned themselves around five yards from the police front line.
(17) Charles I had good reason to be grateful to his favourite portraitist who, in paintings such as a famous barn door-sized image of the king in armour on horseback, made his diminutive form into a towering emblem of wisdom and majesty.
(18) About 3,000 officers will be on duty, with another 120 on horseback.
(19) An easygoing ride on horseback is the best way to take in the scenery and, within a couple of hours, I'm beginning to get used to Tango and his ways.
(20) Only about 200 Pegida supporters were present in the Dutch city, outnumbered by police and leftwing demonstrators who shouted: “Refugees are welcome, fascists are not.” Dutch riot police detained several people as officers on horseback intervened to separate the two groups.
Twister
Definition:
(n.) One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
(n.) The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.
(n.) A girder.
(n.) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison between twister and digits yielded ten cases of twister preference, four of digit preference and twenty cases of overlap.
(2) Noel plummeted all the way to No 6, where he was picked up by the New Orleans Pelicans – who sadly robbed us of a classic tongue-twister, "New Orleans' Nerlens Noel", by trading him to the Philadelphia 76ers.
(3) The automatic wire twister reduces the time needed for wire twisting without altering the security of the twisted wire.
(4) Depth of modulation on the twister device was twice that on a proximal device in nine cases whereas one case showed a proximal device preference; five cases showed overlap.
(5) This paper deals with the vibration analysis of a blood processor centrifuge with an anti-twister mechanism.
(6) Kidron's footage of the event has the appearance of a 60s peace festival, shiny happy people holding hands, playing Twister in the park, dancing and singing and laughing together.
(7) But as soon as the consequences of that exercise in democracy loomed – and it appeared that many Tory MPs would vote in favour – the government panicked and the arm twisters were called into action to throttle the voice of the people.
(8) Along with her work for the BBC, Bradbury has also presented ITV gameshow Take on the Twisters.
(9) These include a Lego version of the Mines of Moria sequence from the Lord of the Rings films and an electronic dance version of Hasbro's popular family game Twister.
(10) 'McAllister proves to be a bit of a tongue-twister for some, and he is usually nicknamed "Mac".
(11) The surgical instrument most important for making wire fixation highly successful is a tightener-twister which protects wire loops from excessive strain during application, and permits twisting at a predetermined and therefore reproducible tension.
(12) Nine-hundred and eighty-one right-handed and 55 left-handed subjects were required to tap with a pen for 10 secs between targets 6 cm apart whilst either saying nothing, reciting a tongue-twister or saying la-la.
(13) This study reports on the laboratory elicitation of sublexical speech errors by means of tongue twisters.
(14) Blood processors that employ anti-twister mechanisms are becoming increasingly popular because they cause relatively less damage to the blood than the conventional ones, which employ rotating seals.
(15) Of the 2 twist-knot devices, the Rhinelander wire tightener-twister produced the greatest resistance to knot failure.
(16) Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider, a former contestant on Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice TV show, said the tycoon had asked permission to use Twister Sister’s song We’re Not Gonna Take It at the end of his rallies, and he had been happy to agree.
(17) The top 13 in full Cabbage Patch Kids, JAKKS Pacific, RRP £29.99 Furby, Hasbro, RRP £59.99 InnoTab 2, Vtech, RRP £84.99 Jake and the Neverland Pirates – Pirate Ship Bucky, Mattel, RRP £49.99 LeapPad 2, Leapfrog Toys, RRP £89.99 Lego Friends: Olivia's House, Lego, RRP £69.99 Lego The Lord of the Rings: The Mines of Moria, Lego, £68.99 Mike the Knight's Deluxe Glendragon Playset, Character Options, £29.99 Monster High Ghouls Rule Dolls, Mattel, RRP £22.99 My Moshi Home, Vivid Imaginations, RRP £39.99 Nerf N-Strike Elite Hail-Fire, Hasbro, RRP £44.99 Twister Dance, Hasbro, RRP £26.99 Web Shooting Spider-Man, Hasbro, RRP £34.99
(18) Also on the site this week Christmas toys 2012: Furbys and Twister take parents back to the future Same-sex Mamas & Papas adverts 'celebrate modern family set-ups' Consumer borrowing surges On Saturday As well as travel insurance and Hurricane Sandy, Saturday's Guardian Money will look at how to beat the payday loan sharks and the best new 0% deals on credit cards.
(19) He was one of a team of tornado-chasers in the blockbuster Twister (1996), produced by Steven Spielberg .
(20) Testing has found that the ultimate force required to disrupt the wires twisted by either the automatic wire twister or manual techniques did not differ significantly and was directly related to the number of twists.