(n.) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.
(n.) A potter's wheel.
(n.) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
(n.) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
(n.) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
(n.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
(n.) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
(n.) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.
(n.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
(n.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.
(n.) A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons.
Example Sentences:
(1) During Saturday’s search activities the crew of a civil aircraft sent out by Amsa reported sighting a number of small objects with the naked eye, including a wooden pallet, within a radius of five kilometres,” the statement said.
(2) Recycled plastic pellets like these mitigate the need for virgin plastics, and can be used to make ashtrays or industrial products such as shipping pallets.
(3) "These photos included picture of the individuals, pallets of unprinted paper and seized copies of the final printed material or the printed document; and a high resolution photo of the printed material itself.
(4) The illness behavior of three cohorts of workers at three levels of risk--workers removed from the chemical plant to a pallet plant (PP) because their screening results indicated liver abnormalities; workers who had some positive test results (TP); and workers whose test results were negative (TN)--was studied before (time 1) and after (time 2) the angiosarcoma crisis.
(5) He referred to a provision in the enterprise agreement that says: “Employees who are forklift drivers and who are stacking pallets of bright cans shall be entitled to an allowance of 50 cents per hour.” Abetz said the “shiny tin allowance” was removed in 1991 when SPC Ardmona was in financial strife.
(6) We handed over our credit card details and three days later a £422 Hunter Hawk (4 kilowatt) model arrived on a pallet (since burned) plus the associated flue.
(7) The Pentagon said the pallet of weapons was one of 28 dropped, not six as previously reported.
(8) Workers in white hard hats and gloves moved wooden pallets and other materials into the middle of an intersection to be taken away in a truck that pulled up.
(9) Quentin Willson Motoring journalist and FairFuelUK campaigner, Angus MacNeil MP SNP's Westminster spokesperson on transport, Geoff Dunning Chief executive, Road Haulage Association, Jason McCartney MP Conservative member of transport select committee, Naomi Long MP Deputy leader, Alliance party of Northern Ireland, Nigel Dodds MP Deputy leader, Democratic Unionist party, Paul Sanders Chairman, Association of Pallet Networks, Pete Williams Head of external affairs, RAC, Rob Flello MP Labour, Rob Shuttleworth Chief executive, UKLPG, Sammy Wilson MP DUP parliamentary spokesman on economic and finance matters, Tessa Munt MP Liberal Democrat, PPS to the secretary of state for business, innovation and skills, Theo de Pencier Chief executive, Freight Transport Association, Howard Cox FairFuelUK campaign founder
(10) Piles of wooden pallets, a generator and other equipment from a dismantled pro-Russia tent camp quickly began to burn.
(11) We can also confirm that MH370 was carrying wooden pallets.
(12) Apples are now bagged by robots and loaded on to pallets ready to be transported to retailers.
(13) In a briefing on Sunday, Mike Barton, Amsa's rescue coordination centre chief, said: “The use of wooden pallets is quite common in the industry … They're usually packed into another container, which is loaded in the belly of the aircraft.” Barton also said that the possible debris seen by the search aircraft also included "strapping belts of different lengths".
(14) The collection is so vast that it has to be housed in several large warehouses, in boxes and crates stacked high on pallets and covered in polythene or plastic sheeting.
(15) It uses pallets dropped by parachute and guided by GPS navigation and a rudder.
(16) Their pesticides, boxes and shipping pallets are all bought from Israel.
(17) Late on Saturday, Kasich ordered the state’s National Guard to deliver water purification systems, pallets of bottled water and ready-to-eat meals to residents in several counties.
(18) Photograph: Gary Calton for Observer Food Monthly Killick shows me round the warehouse, stacked with pallets of food liberated from supermarkets and producers.
(19) Two 75mm shells from the first world war, two empty safes, gold pieces, a pallet truck, two wheelchairs and a toilet bowl.
(20) But sitting somewhat awkwardly among the pallets and forklift trucks of the children’s furniture factory, Clinton at times looked more like a shopper in Ikea than a factory worker and seemed to struggle to stretch her answers out to fill the time allotted.
Straw
Definition:
(v. t.) To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.
(n.) A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.
(n.) The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
(n.) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
(2) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
(3) Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, took a less dramatic view.
(4) David Blunkett, not Straw, was the home secretary at the time the decision was taken to allow Poles and others immediate access to the British labour market.
(5) Pictures of the Social Network star emerged on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, showing Garfield in full costume for Punchdrunk's current show, The Drowned Man , chewing seductively on a stick of straw .
(6) 9.31am BST Jack Straw , the Labour former home secretary, was on the Today programme earlier talking about the "plebgate" affair.
(7) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(8) This paper investigates the effect of straw handling on the viability of 2-cell mouse embryos rapidly frozen in dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO) solutions.
(9) "I have just seen a piece of straw flying over, which the hon lady is attempting to clutch at!"
(10) Jack Straw's detailed blueprint for a 300- strong, wholly elected upper chamber to replace the Lords appears to have been blocked at the last minute following resistance in cabinet.
(11) That was the straw that broke the camel's back and we thought it better to stop it dead in it tracks now.
(12) Straw meal integration had a gravidity-conditioned influence on the daily N balance.
(13) The highest level of contamination with fungi was observed in the concentrate feed mixture followed by clover hay and rice straw.
(14) Insemination with semen stored in 0.5-ml French straws was performed daily during the periovulatory period while the modified Insler score was 10 or greater out of 15.
(15) It’s still unclear which candidates will choose to compete in the straw poll and mount actual efforts to attract Iowans.
(16) Shortly after Blair and Straw issued their denials, Sir Richard Dearlove, who was head of MI6 at the time, said: "It was a political decision, having very significantly disarmed Libya, for the government to co-operate with Libya on Islamist terrorism.
(17) Hundred twenty three samples of bull semen fluid frozen at 196 degrees C including 83 plastic ampules, 20 granules and 20 plastic straws obtained from the containers of the insemination stations of 10 farms from the Sofia district were investigated.
(18) Mariah Carey 's need for a staff member to carry her drink and prop up the bendy bit of her straw is what makes me love her so much.
(19) Despite the freezing curve assayed, both the mini-straws and the bags depicted much shorter freezing point plateaus as compared to the maxi-straws.
(20) Even Jack Straw is trying to close down some of its overripe practices.