A besom pocket is a pocket cut into a garment instead of being sewn on.

A besom is a traditionally constructed broom made of a bundle of twigs tied to a stouter pole.

As a result of its construction around a central pole, the brush of the besom is rounded instead of flat.

A traditional Wiccan besom is an ash stave handle with bristles made from birch twigs.

As a tool, the besom is usually thought of as masculine in nature due to its phallic shape and symbolism.

The besom is thought to be involved with fairies.

The besom is an important part of Wiccan handfasting ceremonies in some traditions.

The seaward side of the track is defined by bunches of twigs and sticks, shaped like upside-down besom brooms or fire-brooms, which are buried in the sands.

The village is known for its historical association with Tadley in the manufacture of besom brooms.

Along with Tadley, Baughurst is associated with the manufacture of besom brooms.

" The beautiful shops, full of valuable goods ; the stores behind, containing thousands of barrels of flour and provisions of all kinds ; the fish stores ; the wharves, which it had cost immense sums to erect, -- disappeared one by one into the maw of the destroyer … the whole of Water Street, on both sides, was ' swept with the besom of destruction.

A rute may also be a cylindrical bunch of pieces of cane or twigs, bound at one end, like a small besom without a handle, and used to play on the shell of the bass drum in an orchestra.

It has often been assumed that, in England, jumping over the broom ( or sometimes walking over a broom ), always indicated an irregular or non-church union ( as in the expressions " Married over the besom ", " living over the brush "), but there are examples of the phrase being used in the context of legal weddings, both religious and civil.

* Block hooks: with a straight or slightly convex cutting edge, they were often used in urban environments for cutting against a wooden block ( similar to the back edge of a broom hook, used for trimming the head of a birch besom to length ).

In Wales, Romani couples would get married by eloping, when they would " jump the broom ," or over a branch of flowering broom ( shrub ) or a besom made of broom.

The couple jump over the besom during the ceremony.

On the Sunday night after Ash Wednesday, the night before the Morgestraich in Basel city, a procession begins of people carrying burning bundles of pinewood chips ( called, the Alemannic German for " pinewood besom ") through the medieval town center along the Rathausstrasse, entering through the city gate from the south.

There was usually a " Leader ", smartly dressed, who carried a staff or stick, or a whip, and sometimes other stock characters, such as the Merryman, who played music, and Punch and Judy ( both played by men ) with blackened faces ; often brightly dressed, Punch carried a long metal poker and Judy had a besom broom.

But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

`` This one is a tender chicken, oui??

but he presents it publicly so enmeshed in hypocrisy that it is not an honest one.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

For one thing, this is not a subject often discussed or analyzed.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.

Most of it is panelized and utilizes standard materials, and requires the use of only simple tools.

In plasma generators as currently commercially available for industrial use or as high temperature research tools often more than 50% of the total energy input is being transferred to the cooling medium of the anode.

Basic reference tools are the backbone of the collection, but there is also specialization in science and technology, an indicated weakness in local libraries.

Sometimes it is possible to " see " anagrams in words, unaided by tools, though the more letters involved the more difficult this becomes.

Analytical chemistry is also focused on improvements in experimental design, chemometrics, and the creation of new measurement tools to provide better chemical information.

Also, hybridization with other traditional analytical tools is revolutionizing analytical science.

Assassination is one of the oldest tools of power politics.

Because it is softer than most other metals in general use, brass is often used in situations where it is important that sparks not be struck, as in fittings and tools around explosive gases.

Unlike steel, bronze struck against a hard surface will not generate sparks, so it ( along with beryllium copper ) is used to make hammers, mallets, wrenches and other durable tools to be used in explosive atmospheres or in the presence of flammable vapors.

It generates new knowledge that is useful in such fields as drug design and development of new software tools to create that knowledge.

Gem quality diamond is used in jewelry, and Industrial diamonds are used in drilling, cutting and polishing tools for machining metals and stone.

In practice, they will have other tools and rates that are used, but only one that is rigorously targeted and enforced.

Not yet fully ANSI-compliant, GCL is however the implementation of choice for several large projects including the mathematical tools Maxima, AXIOM and ( historically ) ACL2.

The Horse Cavalry Detachment of the U. S. Army's 1st Cavalry Division is made up of active duty soldiers, still functions as an active unit, trained to approximate the weapons, tools, equipment and techniques used by the United States Cavalry in the 1880s.

Thus it is possible to launch Windows applications from the Cygwin environment, as well as to use Cygwin tools and applications within the Windows operating context.

; Metadata: Information about program structure is language-agnostic, so that it can be referenced between languages and tools, making it easy to work with code written in a language you are not using.

The height of knitted and crocheted stitches is also different: a single crochet stitch is twice the height of a knit stitch in the same yarn size and comparable diameter tools, and a double crochet stitch is about four times the height of a knit stitch.

The game is also highly customizable on the player's end, allowing the user to install or even create their own custom skins, HUDs, sprites, and sound effects, given the proper tools.

Leontyev had seen human action as a result of biological as well as cultural evolution and, drawing on Marx's materialist conception of culture, stressed that individual cognition always is part of social action which in turn is mediated by man-made tools ( cultural artifacts ), language and other man-made systems of symbols, which he viewed as a major distinguishing feature of human culture and, thus, human cognition.

Debian GNU / Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential Linux distribution.