# Retractable twin weapons pods ( deployed from just below each car door ) each with a " Static Pulse " ( EMP ) emitter, missiles / rockets, and a harpoon / tow cable / grapple hook launcher

Retractable hardtops can vary in material ( steel, plastic or aluminum ), can vary from two to five in the number of rigid sections and often rely on complex dual-hinged trunk ( British: boot ) lids that enable the trunk lid to both receive the retracting top from the front and also receive parcels or luggage from the rear – along with complex trunk divider mechanisms to prevent loading of luggage that would conflict with the operation of the hardtop.

Plate bindings were popular in the US in the 1970s, notably the BURT Retractable Bindings and Spademan binding, but never caught on in any major way in Europe.

Retractable landing gear is common on scale models and is occasionally used in stunt.

Retractable slats, as seen on most airliners, provide reduced stalling speed for take-off and landing, but are retracted for cruising.

Retractable claws on the fingers can be used to slice objects and grip solid surfaces.

File: Chrysler Crossfire fastback blue rear. jpg | Retractable Spoiler on a Chrysler Crossfire

File: Bugatti veyron2. jpg | Retractable Spoiler on a Bugatti Veyron

Retractable awnings let owners control the weather on their own terms.

Retractable seats will face the opening to receive either the driver and / or passenger and then get into position in front of the control panel.

Retractable leashes are usually made of nylon and the retractable device is made of plastic or a stronger composite.

Retractable spoilers were fitted to the underside of the fuselage, just forward of the bomb bay in order to induce turbulence within the bomb bay enabling the bomb to fall away.

Retractable pulse cannons, wrist-mounted twin automatic machine gun batteries, dual laser-guided mortars in his legs, two heat-seeking laser blasters and a fusion-powered photon rifle mean that in terms of firepower, Fortress Maximus is unsurpassed.

Retractable thrusters are used as auxiliary propulsion for dynamically positioned ( DP ) vessels and take-home propulsion for military vessels.

** Retractable buffers, electronic fuel gauges, automatic or shackle coupling, Push-pull capability, fitted with HaslerRail 2500 Event recorder, NIR train radio and TPWS / AWS for cross-border service

Retractable nipples, internal testicles and an internal penis sheath provide further streamlining.

* Retractable window: In the early 1950s, tailgates with hand-cranked roll-down rear windows began to appear.

* Retractable roof: The Studebaker Wagonaire station wagon had a unique retractable rear roof section as well as a conventional rear tailgate which folded down.

Retractable rigid roof ( or hard-top ) cars are marketed as simply retractable hardtop and French versions as coupé cabriolet or coupé convertible.

File: Mazda MX-5 hardtop. jpg | Mazda Miata Power Retractable Hard Top ( PRHT ) c. 2007, the hardtop constructed of polycarbonate, shown raised, adding and providing identical cargo capacity to the soft top version.

Retractable armoured plates.

Retractable front seat belts were optional.

; Retractable Hardtop: aka Coupé convertible or Coupé Cabriolet.

*" Retractable Dome Will Cover Arena.

BC Place Retractable Roof under construction, April 2011PavCo, which owns and operates BC Place, is governed primarily by the British Columbia Enterprise Corporation Act, which names it an Agent of the government, binds it by the same laws as the government, and gives it the same immunities as the government.

Retractable tricycle undercarriage.

Retractable tricycle undercarriage.

Retractable gear and up-engined models were later introduced, with the Glasair III Turbo capable of speeds in excess of, and another model being fitted with a turboprop engine.

** Retractable buffers, electronic fuel gauges, automatic or shackle coupling, Push-pull capability.

) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.

There was no lock on the door, only an iron hook which he unfastened.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

Modern anchors for smaller vessels have metal flukes which hook on to rocks on the bottom or bury themselves in soft bottoms.

A hook on the end of a strap on his belt engages the bowstring.

Tambour lace on fine net is commonly taught with the crochet hook, these hooks with " integral wing nuts " being an expensive item.

Crochet hooks used for Tunisian crochet are elongated and have a stopper at the end of the handle, while double-ended crochet hooks have a hook on both ends of the handle.

Crocheted fabric is begun by placing a slip-knot loop on the hook ( though other methods, such as a magic ring or simple folding over of the yarn may be used ), pulling another loop through the first loop, and repeating this process to create a chain of a suitable length.

At any one time at the end of a stitch, there is only one loop left on the hook.

In most crochet, the artisan usually has only one live stitch on the hook ( with the exception being Tunisian crochet ), while a knitter keeps an entire row of stitches active simultaneously.

* Vietnamese uses the acute accent ( dấu sắc ), the grave accent ( dấu huyền ), the tilde ( dấu ngã ), the dot below ( dấu nặng ) and the hook above ( dấu hỏi ) on vowels as tone indicators.

Modern field hockey sticks are J-shaped and constructed of a composite of wood, glass fibre or carbon fibre ( sometimes both ) and have a curved hook at the playing end, a flat surface on the playing side and curved surface on the rear side.

And after several days of trying to get south to their planned destination of the Colony of Virginia, strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbor at Cape Cod hook, where they anchored on November 11 / 21.

Each position in the card corresponds to a " Bolus " hook, which can either be raised or stopped dependent on whether the hole is punched out of the card or the card is solid.

According to Berry's biographer Mark A. Moore, " The song ( with backing vocals, plus additional instruments added by the Ernie Freeman combo ) had a raucous R & B flavor, with a bouncing bomp-bomp vocal hook that would become a signature from Jan on future recordings.

In 1859, Stuart developed a new piece of cavalry equipment, for which he received patent number 25, 684 on October 4 — a saber hook, or an " improved method of attaching sabers to belts.

There are many variations of the hook kick, generally based on different footworks: rear-or front-leg, oblique or half-pivot, dropping, spin-back and more.

See above for more on hook kicks.

A variant, the hook and lateral, where a forward pass is immediately passed backward to a second receiver to fool the defense, is used on occasion.

Defensive shots rarely score runs and risk being caught in the cordon, while the pull and hook shots can result in a catch on the boundary, for which two men were usually set in " leg-theory " bowling.

In February 2010, the Australian judge ruled that " Down Under " did contain a flute riff based on " Kookaburra " but stipulated that neither was it necessarily the hook nor a substantial part of the hit song ( Colin Hay wrote the song years before the flute riff was added by a later member of the band ).