Finally the workpiece is transported to the slack tub, which rapidly cools the workpiece in a large body of water.

The slack tub also provides water to control the fire in the forge.

Then, taking in on the first cable as the boat is motored into the wind and letting slack while drifting back, a second anchor is set approximately a half-scope away from the first on a line perpendicular to the wind.

Engine power is transmitted via a set of vee-belts that are slack when the engine is idling, but by means of a tensioner pulley can be tightened to increase friction between the belts and the sheaves.

When the rode is slack, the catenary curve presents a lower angle of pull on the anchor or mooring device than would be the case if it were nearly straight.

In linguistics, creaky voice ( sometimes called laryngealisation, pulse phonation, vocal fry, or glottal fry ), is a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together ; as a result, the vocal folds are compressed rather tightly, becoming relatively slack and compact.

This behavior can worsen when the knot is repeatedly strained and let slack, dragged over rough terrain, or repeatedly struck against hard objects such as a masts and flagpoles.

: II Peter 3: 9 " The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Although the IPA has no dedicated diacritic for slack voice, the voiceless diacritic ( the under-ring ) may be used with a voiced consonant letter, though this convention is also used for partially voiced consonants in languages such as English.

Wu Chinese " muddy " consonants are slack voice, the primary effect of which is a slightly breathy quality of the following vowel

The moment that the tidal current ceases is called slack water or slack tide.

The sheepshank is a type of knot that is used to shorten a rope or take up slack.

The sole function of a line post is not to take up slack but to keep the barbed wire strands spaced equally and off the ground.

So Spidey decides to slack off again, by claiming he has a " really important battle to fight " ( later claiming that his opponent is Doc Ock on three separate occasions ).

Line twist in spinning reels can occur from the spin of an attached lure, the action of the wire bail against the line when engaged by the crank handle, or even retrieval of line that is under load ( spinning reel users normally pump the rod up and down, then retrieve the slack line to avoid line twist and stress on internal components ).

In the typical use of the trucker's hitch, where it is used to tighten a rope over a load, when the end is secured to the loop of the Truckers hitch and let go, the tension in the two segments of rope around the ring will rise 50 %, unless the rope slackens when it is being tied off, in which case the tension may drop to any value or even zero if enough slack is allowed.

The key advantage of a linear penalty function is that the slack variables vanish from the dual problem, with the constant C appearing only as an additional constraint on the Lagrange multipliers.

The bond wires are not usually taut but loop upward slightly to allow slack for thermal expansion and contraction of the materials ; if a single bond wire breaks or detaches, the entire IC may become useless.

In 2002, due to lack of government support, the China Youth Corps which usually ran the program announced that it could no longer support a sizable number of students at Chien Tan for its 2002 Study tour and that other organizations would have to pick up the slack.

They usually have around 5 " ( 120-140 mm ) of travel, weigh, and have geometries slightly slacker than XC bikes, though not as slack as AM bikes.

The linkage between the implement and the tractor usually had some slack which could lead to jerky starts and greater wear and tear on the tractor and the equipment.

Where a tensioner is required, a short cage is usually sufficient to take up the chain slack.

In the case of derailleur gears the chain is usually long enough so that it can be shifted onto the largest front chain ring and the largest rear sprocket without jamming, and not so long that, when shifted onto the smallest front chain ring and the smallest rear sprocket, the rear derailleur cannot take up all the slack.

A surface marker buoy ( SMB ) tethered to a diver is usually towed on a thin line attached to a reel, spool or other device which allows the diver to control the line length, so that excessive slack line can be avoided.

Wide-eyed and slack jawed, he usually wore a service station uniform and a baseball cap with an upturned bill ; a handkerchief dangled from his back pocket.

At the foot of Great Falls Dam the water is usually slack except during periods of high discharge due to the influence of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Center Hill Dam project, developed in the late 1950s.

( In arena football, a kicked ball usually bounces back into play off of the rebound nets, but the above can still occur when the ball lands in the slack nets behind the goalposts after a kickoff, passes under the rebound nets and out of play, or in the event of fumbles and interceptions.

It usually ran between Broadway – Lafayette Street and Grand Street, picking up the slack from rerouted or suspended and service.

There have also been instances where large marine mammals such as whales have become trapped in the head pond after transiting the sluice gates during slack tide.

Others, called slack track, allow the track to droop and run along the tops of large road wheels.

The Rideau Canal was recognized as the best preserved example of a slack water canal in North America demonstrating the use of European slackwater technology in North America on a large scale.

" This request to paint in Canada was later repeated from Quebec, Copley replying: " I should receive a singular pleasure in excepting, if my Business was anyways slack, but it is so far otherwise that I have a large Room full of Pictures unfinished, which would ingage me these twelve months if I did not begin any others.

The Rideau Canal was recognized as the best preserved example of a slack water canal in North America demonstrating the use of European slackwater technology in North America on a large scale.

Because large road wheels and " slack track " are characteristic of the Christie suspension, other designs with these features are sometimes misidentified as such.

Another potentially good design feature of the Sd. Kfz. 251 was the large track area, with the characteristic " slack track " design with no return rollers for the upper run of track, and overlapping and interleaved main road wheels common to virtually all German halftracks of the period.

The building's main problems are its drab external appearance by day, the deadening effect of the overhead walkways on ground level circulation, large amounts of slack space on the walkways and the provision of only an external staircase to the roof terrace.

* Call pickup is also useful in large offices or in slack periods when fewer staff are present than telephone sets.

On full length pants tight rolling is performed by taking up the slack around the ankles at the hem of the pants, folding the extra material over and then rolling upwards 2 or 3 times over.

But there are locations where the moments of slack tide differ significantly from those of high and low water.

By the 1850s, the slack water system of locks and dams had been developed by the Monongahela Navigation Company ( later acquired by the Army Corp of Engineers ), allowing for year-round travel to and from Pittsburgh to the Greensboro area.

In the 1880s, Greensboro essentially lost the pottery and clay tile market due to more efficient producers, and with the extension of slack water transportation to Morgantown became a more localized port.

The best time for small craft to enter the Rip is at slack water.

In contrast to normal diving, drift diving is generally not planned to coincide with slack water.

This means that slack water between the bridges tends to occur approximately one hour before high tide or low tide.

Mao also wanted to mobilize peasants to undertake huge water projects during the winter slack seasons in order to improve agricultural productivity.

A dam was built across the Wabash River at Pitts to create a slack water area to allow the boats to cross the river without an aqueduct.

Some dive sites can only be dived safely at slack water when the tidal cycle reverses and the current slows.

Using barbless hooks, it is often possible to release the fish without removing it from the water ( a slack line is frequently sufficient ).

A further problem is caused by diving at slack water ; the direction of the current reverses during slack, so although the weight may be securely up current of the obstruction before slack, after the tide turns the weight is down current of the obstruction and may drag.

This coal debris was left in heaps and " crowded moist slack heat naturally, and kindle in the middle of these great heaps, often sets the coal works on fire " and that " Also from these sulphurous heaps, mixed with ironstone ( for out of many of the same pits is gotten much ironstone or mine ), the fires heating vast quantities of water, passing through these soughs or adits becometh as hot as the bath at Bath ".

It crosses briefly into Clinton County, Kentucky, where its water becomes slack due to the impoundment of Dale Hollow Reservoir on the Obey River.

( Watts Bar Lake is a relatively deep reservoir and causes " slack water " conditions many miles up several Tennessee River tributaries, not just the main stream.

There is very little protection from the fierce tidal flow, so accurate timing for slack water is required.

At around 6pm the tide began to turn ; seeking to take advantage of this, and remembering how the English had escaped after the battle of Beachy Head two years before, Tourville had his ships anchor at the end of slack water, with their sails still set.