* Rib-A strong ridge on the surface of the shell.

A thin strip of seal intestine was also used and was twisted to form a thread.

The Æsir said Fenrir would quickly tear apart a thin silken strip, noting that Fenrir earlier broke great iron binds, and added that if Fenrir wasn't able to break slender Gleipnir then Fenrir is nothing for the gods to fear, and as a result would be freed.

The individual magnetic field of adjacent turns induces eddy currents in the wire of the coil, which causes the current in the conductor to be concentrated in a thin strip on the side near the adjacent wire.

Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film.

The recording medium was a thin strip of one half inch ( 12. 65 mm ) wide metal, consisting of nickel-plated bronze ( called Vicalloy ).

( and is surrounded by a thin strip of steel, known as the ' edge '.

The bottom-edges of the snowboard are fitted with a thin strip of steel, just a couple of millimeters wide.

The rest of the United States is the size of the three New York City blocks and is drawn as a square, with a thin brown strip along the Hudson representing " Jersey ", the names of five cities ( Los Angeles ; Washington, D. C .; Las Vegas ; Kansas City ; and Chicago ) and three states ( Texas, Utah, and Nebraska ) scattered among a few rocks for the United States beyond New Jersey.

The next is a thin strip that covers only the mountains.

Celebration lies on unincorporated land within Osceola County, with a thin strip of still-incorporated land separating it from the rest of the county.

The other is a longer but thin strip with two full twists in it — this is a neighborhood of the edge of the original strip, and it comprises 1 / 3 of the width and twice the length of the original strip.

The country occupies a thin strip of land in between Zambia and Mozambique protruding southwards into Mozambique along the valley of the Shire River.

A reed is a thin strip of material which vibrates to produce a sound on a musical instrument.

Haarlem has a rich history dating back to pre-medieval times, as it lies on a thin strip of land above sea level known as the strandwal ( beach ridge ), which connects Leiden to Alkmaar.

The first skate to use a metal blade was found in Scandinavia and was dated to 200 and was fitted with a thin strip of copper folded and attached to the underside of a leather shoe.

By 2009, the southeastern lake had disappeared and the southwestern lake retreated to a thin strip at the extreme west of the former southern sea.

Most of the land area belongs to Kodiak Island, but a thin strip of coastal area on the western part of the Alaska Peninsula and other nearby islands ( Afognak Island, Shuyak Island, Marmot Island, Raspberry Island, Little Raspberry Island, Whale Island, Spruce Island, Woody Island, Uganik Island, Sitkalidak Island, Tugidak Island, Sitkinak Island, Chirikof Island, and the Semidi Islands ) are also in the borough.

However, for AP's first 30 issues or so, they had a thin strip on the back cover upon which they wrote a few lines on next month's issue, and included a very small screenshot of an upcoming game.

The park is found to the west of Wanneroo Road and is a long thin strip of bushland that is about in length.

The only road access is a short, rough gravel road from Seward near the Alaska SeaLife Center along a thin strip between the mountains and Resurrection Bay.

The town is bordered on the north by the Little Calumet River, a shallow river surrounded by a thin strip of wooded area ; and on the west by the Illinois state line.

A thin, strip of Sherman Avenue was part of this annexation, in order to comply with state law regarding contiguity of annexed land.

* A thin strip of land, known as " the back side of the river ", is located south of the Winooski River.

was sufficiently strong, thin, and pliable to permit the intermittent movement of the film strip behind camera lens at considerable speed and under great tension without tearing ... stimulat the almost immediate solution of the essential problems of cinematic invention.

The rifle suffered from cartridge-extraction problems during the Zulu War ( mostly due to the thin weak, pliable foil brass cartridges used, as they expanded too much into the rifle's chamber on detonation, to the point that they stuck or tore open inside the rifle's chamber, rendering the arm useless in the heat of battle ); however, it remained a popular competition rifle at National Rifle Association Meetings, at Bisley in Surrey, and ( NRA ) Civilian and Service Rifle matches from 1872 – 1904, it was used up to 1, 000 yards using the standard military service ammunition of the day, by the 1880s the. 577 /. 450 Boxer Henry round was recognised by the NRA as a 900yard cartridge, as shooting the Martini out to 1, 000 yards or ( 3 / 4 of a mile ) was difficult to say the least, and took great skill to assess the correct amount of windage to drop the 485 grain bullet on the target.

* Leaves: Leaf blades can be leathery or thin and rather soft or pliable, bald or hairy.

The thin, pliable end of the jess is then threaded through an anklet worn by the bird, which is itself formed of another rectangular strip of leather, bound together at the ends by a grommet ( usually of brass ), prevented from slipping through the grommet by the knobbed end.

While standing trees sometimes tend to rot from the heart outward, the dry timber weathers very well, becoming silvery-grey and resistant to rotting and warping, and has traditionally been used for rural construction in the northwestern regions of Russia ( especially for roofing, in the form of thin slats ).

The domes and pendentures are formed of concrete, and as extraneous roofs of timber were dispensed with, it was necessary to provide a thin independent outer shell of impervious stone.

Clapboard, also known as bevel siding or lap siding or weatherboard ( with regional variants as to the exact definitions of these terms ), is the cladding or ‘ siding ’ of a house consisting of long thin timber boards that overlap one another, either vertically or horizontally on the outside of the wall.

The men were thin and wiry, but they were also tough and strong with an incredible skill in felling, sawing and handling timber.

) Secondly, Linnaeus only described and identified this snake in 1758: firsthand experience with timber rattlesnakes among London scientists would have been poor, the flora and fauna of the colonies would have been disdained as savage by thinking circles and so published information on its habits would have been thin, allowing for hearsay and superstition to grow on both sides of the Atlantic.

Or a thin slice of plug tobacco might be laid on the open wound without chewing.

Whether hand laid or built in a mould, FRP boats usually have an outer coating of gelcoat which is a thin solid colored layer of polyester resin that adds no structural strength, but does create a smooth surface which can be buffed to a high shine and also acts as a protective layer against sunlight.

In cold moulding very thin strips of wood are laid over a form or mould in layers.

# the cuticle which consists of several layers of flat, thin cells laid out overlapping one another as roof shingles,

Dyes, however, are not suitable for the relatively thin layers of ink laid out on the surface of a print.

A levee made from stones laid in horizontal rows with a bed of thin turf between each of them is known as a spetchel.

The log is laid horizontally and rotated about its long axis while a long blade is pressed into it, causing a thin layer of wood to peel off ( much as a continuous sheet of paper from a roll ).

He suggested city blocks be laid out as thin rectangles, with the long side of the blocks oriented east-west so that as many houses as possible could be facing in the southerly direction.

Another point of departure with Newman and Rothko is the way the paint is laid on the canvas ; while Rothko and Newman used fairly flat colors and relatively thin paint, Still uses a thick impasto, causing subtle variety and shades that shimmer across the painting surfaces.

In many of these plays, however, it was too obvious that a thin varnish of historic learning, acquired for the purpose, had been artificially laid on to cover modern thoughts and feelings.

The valley is mostly underlain by Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks concealed by a thin layer of gravel laid down by glaciation during Pleistocene time.

* Tropomyosin is present in smooth muscle, spanning seven actin monomers and is laid out end to end over the entire length of the thin filaments.

The chemicals accumulated in the bodies of grain-eating birds and had two effects on top predators like the Eurasian Sparrowhawk and Peregrine Falcon: the shells of eggs they laid were too thin, causing them to break during incubation ; and birds were poisoned by lethal concentrations of the insecticides.

If dumplings are laid flatly on a pan, first steamed with a lid on and with a thin layer of water, then fried in oil after the water has been evaporated, they are called guotie ( 锅贴, sometimes called " potstickers ") or as the Maillard reaction occurring on the bottom of the dumpling make the skin crispy and brown.

Two eggs are laid in a suspended nest on a thin branch of low tree, fern frond or shrub.

When experimenting with Throughwall, a thin, even layer of insulative mortar is laid along the foundation, then the logs are seated firmly in the mortar bed, in an even fashion, leaving only enough space between them to " point " the mortar.

The principle of lateral continuity states that any archaeological deposit, as originally laid down, will be bounded by the edge of the basin of deposition, or will thin down to a feather edge.

The painting is in tempera, the ground paint being mixed with egg white and laid in thin glazes.

Throughout the history of New France, property was laid out in long, thin rectangles, facing the river and extending into the depths of the forest behind.

The colors were usually applied on a thin coating of stucco or a ground smoothly laid on prepared wood and the various knots and grains made to resemble the wood they were intended to counterfeit.

Any archaeological deposit, as originally laid down, will be bounded by the edge of the basin of deposition, or will thin down to a feather edge.

Underlay or underlayment generally refers to a thin layer of cushioning made of materials such as sponge rubber, foam, felt, or crumb rubber ; this material is laid beneath carpeting to provide comfort underfoot, to reduce wear on the carpet, and to provide insulation against sound, moisture, and heat.

The thin dough is still laid out on a tea towel, and the filling is spread on it.

Road cuts along the eastern approach to the pass reveal Pennsylvanian black shale and thin gray limestone layers that were laid down prior to the creation of the Ancestral Rockies.