The bain-marie comes in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and types, but traditionally is a wide, cylindrical, usually metal container made of three or four basic parts: a handle, an outer ( or lower ) container that holds the working liquid, an inner ( or upper ), smaller container that fits inside the outer one and which holds the material to be heated or cooked, and sometimes a base underneath.

A shorter barrel made the weapon weigh less and was easier to handle in tight spaces, and was easier to shoulder quickly to fire a shot at an unexpected target.

It is 13. 4 inches long and 7. 8 pounds without the handle, which would have been made of wood.

They are the size of American paper currency in Hollerith's time, a choice he made because there was already equipment available to handle bills.

A knout () is a heavy scourge-like multiple whip, usually made of a bunch of rawhide thongs attached to a long handle, sometimes with metal wire or hooks incorporated.

Knives are made with partial tangs ( extending part way into the handle, known as a " Stick Tang ") or full tangs ( extending the full length of the handle, often visible on top and bottom ).

A traditional knife handle made of buffalo horn from Tasikmalaya, Indonesia

The most common are made by flattening a lawnmower blade and strapping on a wooden handle.

For much of their early history, slingshots were a " do it yourself " item, typically made from a forked branch to form the " Y " shaped handle, with rubber strips sliced from items as inner tubes or other sources of good vulcanized rubber and firing suitably sized stones.

The Wrist-Rocket was made from bent steel rods that formed not only the handle and fork, but also a brace that extended backwards over the wrist, and provided support on the forearm to counter the torque of the bands.

It is useful in the programming of user interfaces whose contents are time-varying — graphical objects can be created, removed, altered, or made to handle input events without necessarily having to write separate code to do those things.

The twin small loop handles are the most common handle type for woks of all types and materials, and are usually made of bare metal.

The classic stick handle is made of hollow hammered steel, but other materials may be used, including wood or plastic-covered hand grips.

Its high capacity ( transmitting 240 telephone calls simultaneously ) also made it ideal for long-distance television transmission, where it could handle a frequency band of 1 megahertz.

With the advent of copper mace heads, they no longer shattered and a better fit could be made to the wooden club by giving the eye of the mace head the shape of a cone and using a tapered handle.

Further design modifications were made by Kreisel over the next ten years, and in the 1970s and 1980s by engineer John P. D ' Arcy ; record producer Daniel Levitin served as a consultant and " golden ears " for the design of the crossover network ( used to partition the frequency spectrum so that the subwoofer would not attempt to reproduce frequencies too high for its effective range, and so that the main speakers would not need to handle frequencies too low for their effective range ).

The spoons of the Greeks and Romans were chiefly made of bronze and silver and the handle usually takes the form of a spike or pointed stem.

Spinning rods are made from graphite or fiberglass with a cork or PVC foam handle, and tend to be between 5 and 8. 5 feet ( 1. 5-2. 6 m ) in length.

On July 17, 2001, multiplayer lead Pat Lipo made a post on his. plan file, revealing that Rich Whitehouse had been brought onto the development team to handle development of the game's multiplayer bots.

A difference between defensive programming and normal practices is that few assumptions are made by the programmer, who attempts to handle all possible error states.

The handle was large and made of hardwood so as to burn vigorously and last for awhile.

Gilded-bronze handle in the shape of a dragon's head and neck, made during the Han Dynasty | Eastern Han period ( 25 – 220 AD )

While the metal percussion cap was the most popular and widely-used type of primer, their small size made them difficult to handle under the stress of combat or while riding a horse.

Eitri succeeded in making the golden boar Gullinbursti, the golden ring Draupnir, and the hammer Mjöllnir that made his brother win the bet, even if its handle was shorter than it should have been.

): The paired panels or slabs of wood, horn, plastic, or other material forming part of the handle or grip of a full-Tang knife or metal-framed handgun

Classic ice rods-still widely used-are simply stiff rod-like pieces of wood, usually with a carved wooden handle, a couple of line guides, and two opposing hooks mounted ahead of the handle to hand-wind the line around.

For example when shaping the edge of a fine table top, many users prefer a D handle, with variable speed, as it seems to permit better control and burning the wood can be minimized.

The loops are pulled through the backing material by using a latch hook mounted in a handle ( usually wood ) for leverage.

The port may handle one particular type of cargo or it may handle numerous cargoes, such as grains, liquid fuels, liquid chemicals, wood, automobiles, etc.

It was common to handle up to one hundred cords per day during the wood season.

The handle and blade of some types of chisel are made of metal or wood with a sharp edge in it.

The handle is made of wood, the fan part of silk and satin.

Cord is usually wrapped over the wood of the handle.

It is usually made of dark wood and is straight, rather than having a curved handle.

Balsa wood boards are lighter, more buoyant and easier to handle.

A dip pen or nib pen usually consists of a metal nib with capillary channels like those of fountain pen nibs, mounted on a handle or holder, often made of wood.

A piece of wood pierces through the shell as a handle and dried seeds or pebbles inside rattle when the musicians shake the instrument.

The wood could then be bent in a curved vise to form the handle of the walking stick.

The Soldier Knife 08 features an long ergonomic handle with polymer texturized non-slip inlays incorporated in the nylon grip shells and a double liner locking system, one-hand long locking partly serrated chisel ground drop point blade, wood saw, can opener with small screwdriver, locking bottle opener with large screwdriver and wire stripper / bender, reamer, Phillips ( PH2 ) screwdriver and keyring.

For pharmaceutical use, the mortar and the head of the pestle are usually made of porcelain, while the handle of the pestle is made of wood.

These modern tomahawks have gained popularity with their re-emergence by American Tomahawk Company in the beginning of 2001 and a collaboration with custom knife-maker Ernest Emerson of Emerson Knives, Inc. A similar wood handle Vietnam Tomahawk is also produced today by Cold Steel.

It is made from boiling and bending stripes of wood about two to three inches wide into a circular frame with a handle protruding out.

The blade's tang extended through the handle, which was cylindrical, normally carved from wood or bone.

The wood is sealed and lacquered to give the handle a high-gloss, waterproof finish that reduces soiling and swelling.

A balanced oar is one that has weight added ( either by extra wood or lead inside the handle ) to the inboard end to balance the additional outboard length.