(n.) A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones.
Example Sentences:
(1) The career of Richard J. Stull, II, president and chief executive officer of North Broward Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, FL, reflects the solid grounding he received, literally starting on his father's knee.
(2) There is evidence suggesting that the sensitivity of MLC kinase to activation by Ca2+ and calmodulin may be regulated (Stull et al., this volume).
(3) Based upon epitope mapping of monoclonal antibodies which inhibit kinase activity competitively with respect to the light chain substrate, residues 235-319 of the rabbit skeletal muscle kinase have been proposed to contain a light chain-binding site (Herring, B. P., Stull, J. T., and Gallagher, P. J.