`` Well '', he explained, `` s'posin' you was a nester swingin' the long rope??

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

`` Tailin' '' was the throwin' of an animal by the tail in lieu of a rope.

Very slowly he maneuvered his rawboned bay gelding, edging closer, watching for a chance to throw, but ready to spin and run, rope whining about his head, horse edging tensely under him, but the gelding was obedient and responded and was not paralyzed by the close proximity of the lion.

`` Hurry up, we're late '', he said, noticing with a chill how gray the sky was this morning, the fog like a rope along the horizon, the choppy waves sending off sheets of blue and Kool-Aid green.

Abacá fiber was once used primarily for rope, but this application is now of minor significance.

Traditionally the prod was often lashed to the stock with rope, whipcord, or other strong cording.

The leaf spring was not used to pull the catapult armature directly, rather the rope was wound around a drum.

During the execution, the hangman's rope broke and Kidd was hanged on the second attempt.

The first cable-operated railway, employing a moving rope and iron claws on the cars, was the London and Blackwall Railway, which opened in east London, England, in 1840.

However the rope available at the time proved too susceptible to wear and the system was abandoned in favour of steam locomotives after eight years.

In the 18th century and the 19th century Emsworth was known for shipbuilding, boat building and rope making.

The ball signal was a light or indicator suspended from a rope, that could move upwards and downwards, held by a weighted ball.

The lowball signal was indicated when the weighted ball, and therefore signal, was at the end of its rope in the low position, indicating stop.

Near the stern, about halfway down the starboard topsides, was a rounded wooden block about 150 mm in diameter and 100 mm high, with a central hole for a rope.

From the outside the rope ran through the blade, through the round block and topsides and was fastened inside the hull.

When beached or in shallow water the tiller was moved to the lower hole, the blade rope was slackened and the rudder head pulled up so the rudder could operate in shallow waters.

A log attached to a knotted rope was thrown into the water, trailing behind the ship.

Despite torture (" with the rope ", where the prisoner is hanged from his bound wrists, from the back, forcing the arms to bear the body's weight, thus dislocating the shoulders ), he denied involvement and was released.

In Japan, the Jōmon period has a long history of development of Jōmon Pottery which was characterized by impressions of rope on the surface of the pottery created by pressing rope into the clay before firing.

On 9 May 1976, Ulrike Meinhof was found dead in her cell, hanging from a rope made from jail towels.

He made a secret arrangement with an associate's son to bring his friends to the opening of the show, so that when the finely dressed patrons arrived they found a dozen children in athletic clothes kicking and passing balls, and skipping rope.

Historically, the prayer rope would typically have 100 knots, although prayer ropes with 50 or 33 knots can also be found in use today.

Inside the house, the bodies of Tate and Sebring were found in the living room ; a long rope tied around each of their necks connected them.

However before the trial was concluded, Meinhof was found hanged by a rope, fashioned from a towel, in her cell in the Stammheim Prison on 9 May 1976.

When Calvi's body was found, the level of the Thames had receded with the tide, giving the scene the appearance of a suicide by hanging, but at the exact time of his death, the place on the scaffolding where the rope had been tied could have been reached by a person standing in a boat.

To build the rope bridge the filmmakers found a group of British engineers working on the nearby Balfour Beatty dam.

When he found that his children had survived and were reigning at Tenedos, he sailed there intending to reconcile with them, but Tenes cut the anchor rope of his ship.

Some bog bodies, such as Tollund Man from Denmark, have been found with the rope used to strangle them still around their necks.

In the video game Left 4 Dead ( 2008 ), a room can be found ( in the Blood Harvest campaign ) containing an upturned lawnmower with a rope attached and a considerable amount of blood, referencing a particularly gory scene of the movie.

When Rex cannot be found for a performance, the ringmaster ( knowing that the Tramp has been practicing the tight rope act in hopes of supplanting his rival ) sends the Tramp out in his place.

The remains of the last Australian soldier who went missing in action in 1969 after falling into the jungle during a suspended rope extraction were found in August 2008.

Employees of the museum found a derrick nearby, smashed the wall around a window on the third floor, and lowered Anna by block and tackle with 18 men holding the end of the rope.

Although the elder Taugwalder was accused of cutting the rope to save himself and his son, the official inquest found no proof for this.

When the tiger found an axe in the house and began chopping down on the tree, Daesun made a prayer asking the heavens to send down a strong rope if they should be saved and a rotten rope if they were to be damned.

Fossilized fragments of " probably two-ply laid rope of about 7 mm diameter " were found in one of the caves at Lascaux, dating to approximately 15, 000 BC.

File: MaryRose-rope fragment. JPG | A piece of preserved rope found on board the 16th century carrack Mary Rose

The second victim is a female student whose body is found dangling from a rope in the campus bell tower.

Bent-gate and wire-gate carabiners are usually found on the rope-end of quickdraws, as they facilitate easier rope clipping than straight-gate carabiners.

A rope was also tied around her neck and remnants of a shopping bag were found under the rope suggesting that a bag had been placed on her head.

When the Sacred Image leaves Icoaraci in the event's official ship, a Navy Corvette, it is followed by tens of boats and ships of all colors and types, decorated to greet the Virgin and follow her through the waters of the Guajará Bay to the pier of Belém, where it will be escorted by motorcyclists all the way to the Gentil Bittencourt School, only leaving at 6 pm for the Trasladação ( Transfer ), which is a symbolism for reviving the story of the discovery of the Saint and its return to the place where it was found, in a candle-lit procession, following the Carriage that is tied to a rope that is carried by the faithful until it arrives at the Sé Cathedral.

Colonial cavalry, the NMP and the carabiniers, who could easily have fled as they had horses, died around Durnford in his last stand while nearby their horses were found dead on their picket rope.