(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.
Tote
Definition:
(v. t.) To carry or bear; as, to tote a child over a stream; -- a colloquial word of the Southern States, and used esp. by negroes.
(n.) The entire body, or all; as, the whole tote.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are wild beaches for those prepared to tote their own supplies, but most have a shack selling drinks, ice-creams and snacks.
(2) Almost uniquely in Europe he gave us not a gun-toting paramilitary gendarmerie but "citizens in uniform", an unarmed police force under civilian control.
(3) 7.24pm GMT The message that Jindal has been toting around the country since last year's election losses is that the national party needs to stop putting its focus on nitpicky changes to federal budget and instead work on highlighting entrepreneurs and growth opportunities across the country.
(4) His monstrous wardrobe, his entourages of 300 or 400 ferried in four aeroplanes, his huge bedouin tent, complete with accompanying camel, pitched in public parks or in the grounds of five-star hotels – and his bodyguards of gun-toting young women, who, though by no means hiding their charms beneath demure Islamic veils, were all supposedly virgins, and sworn to give their lives for their leader.
(5) But it's the images of women and their children marching through the night that stick most in the mind: infants toting cardboard coffins, mothers chanting hate.
(6) Members of its armed wing, in black masks and toting large guns, took control of Gaza streets as the deep throb of resistance songs blasted from speakers.
(7) While a more traditional tote or hold-all designer bag often comes in at four figures, these clutches are significantly cheaper – around the £200 mark.
(8) Upstairs from the shop, full of quirky impulse buys such as Gemma Correll's Pugs not Drugs tote bags and Emily Warren's papier-mâché busts, there's studio and workshop space, with screen-printing equipment and sewing machines for regular workshops of up to six people.
(9) Anya was like, Adder actually, and Mary Portas was like, now move on ladies, what matters is that Britfash is facing its biggest crisis since Cherie Blair went out with a matching Burberry tote and booties?
(10) She had also run a canny campaign in which she toted a rifle and went hunting, but also demonstrated a tenderness towards disadvantaged children.
(11) Nasr said he threw his hands up in surrender as gun-toting rebels approached.
(12) Tulsa remains Clark's most visceral book, an insider's view of a period in the mid-1960s when he was a teenager living what he calls, without irony, "the outlaw life" – shooting up speed, having sex with his strung-out girlfriends and hanging out with his gun-toting junkie friends.
(13) So now we have to start again, I went to Dave, babes, even if Mantel's literary kaftans conceal a bitter republican whose misguided hatred of the constitutional monarchy is surpassed only by her allegiance to the discredited regime of Joseph Stalin, whose statue, according to her LRB article, she outrageously proposes to erect in Budleigh Salterton's historic town centre, maybe you could have considered the availability of other on-trend & award-winning lady writers on vintage themes before you dissed the inspiration for our Hilary tote?
(14) They toted signs with slogans like “Healthcare is a Human Right” and “Salud Para Todos” (“Health for All”).
(15) Would Agent 47 have looked as powerful fighting gun-toting nuns that hadn't removed their habits and had worn sensible pumps instead of platform heels?
(16) Texans may get a bad rap, sometimes stereotyped as gun-toting, home-schooled Bible-thumpers, but the truth is Texas is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse states in the union.
(17) Partridge's well received (and long-awaited) big screen debut, Alpha Papa, featured the staff of Partridge's Norfolk broadcaster, North Norfolk Digital, taken hostage by a disgruntled colleague, played by Colm Meaney, leading to an unlikely gun-toting finale on Cromer pier.
(18) Lo and behold, Charlotte Hole, second from the left in the front row in this picture, totes what the Mail says is a £1,100 Mulberry handbag.
(19) Warner Bros might be responsible for having turned the caped crusader into a gun-toting, knuckle-headed bore, but at least the studio knows how to have a joke at its own expense.
(20) Unable to bring their camera-toting car to the Italian lagoon city, where gondolas and canals stand in for vehicles and roads, the internet firm sent instead physically fit technicians to walk Venice's alleys wearing a backpack-mounted camera.