" Land paddling " is the use of a long pole or stick while longboarding.

At its simplest, a fishing rod is a simple stick or pole with a line ending in a hook.

A quarterstaff ( plural quarterstaves ), also short staff or simply staff is a traditional European pole weapon and a technique of stick fighting, especially as in use in England during the Early Modern period.

The sebucan usually is hung from a tree branch or ceiling pole, and it has a closed bottom with a loop that is attached to a fixed stick or lever, which is used to stretch the sebucan.

They called the pole and its location le bâton rouge, or the red stick.

The red-and-white-striped pole of the barbershop, still in use today, is derived from this practice: the red represents the blood being drawn, the white represents the tourniquet used, and the pole itself represents the stick squeezed in the patient's hand to dilate the veins.

Rollins recalls going out on a flyering mission with roadie Mugger in 1981 in which the pair would put a layer of paste onto a telephone pole, stick up the flyer, and then cover it with an additional coat of paste so that it would last for up to a year.

The design is not mechanically stable ; a slight imbalance makes the armature stick to one pole of the magnet.

On simple watercraft, a tiller -- essentially, a stick or pole acting as a lever arm — may be attached to the top of the rudder to allow it to be turned by a helmsman.

Newt's character knocked out Stevil's with his first blow and it was discovered that Stevil had assumed that a " stick " would be a small twig or similar, whereas the " stick " Newt's character had actually used was a full-length pole resembling a log.

Charrasco consists of a pole with a frame on the top adorned with tambourine rattles ; it is played by rubbing a string along the pole with a stick.

Land Paddling is the use of a long pole or stick while longboarding.

The dancer is declared " out " and loses the contest if any part of the body touches the stick or pole that they are passing beneath, or if the hands touch the floor.

When several dancers compete, they go under the stick in single-file ; the stick is gradually lowered until only one dancer, who has not touched either the pole or the floor, remains.

Among the most notable works of art in the museum's permanent collection are the French sculptors Auguste Rodin's The American Athlete and Niki de Saint Phalle's Les Footballeurs, the Luxembourgish sculptor Lucien Wercollier's tribute to the pole vault Altius, the Colombian sculptor Fernando Botero's Jeune Fille a la Balle and a kinetic art sculpture by the Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely which combines a hockey stick, a boar's head and a motorbike wheel.

The Keef Trouble ‘ Zob Stick ’ is distinguished by the addition of a sprung-boot attached to the bottom of the pole and a metal sleeve round its centre, this being hit with a serrated wooden stick.

Consisting of durable cloth strips attached to a stick or pole, it is used for removing dust from surfaces onto the floor, where it can be swept or vacuumed.

During sequences with Draco and Bowen in them, visual effects supervisor Scott Squires and his teams used what they called a " monster stick "-a pole with a bar and two red circles at the top-as an indicator for where Draco's eyes would be for Quaid's reference.

Whereas Platters are fairly similar to T-bars with the stick attached to a spring box by a retractable cord, Pomas have a detachable grip with the button connected to the grip by a semi-rigid pole.

A mop ( such as a floor mop ) is a mass or bundle of coarse strings or yarn, etc., or a piece of cloth, sponge, or other absorbent material, attached to a pole or stick.

When women who do not want children go near the rock, they pretend to be old, and walk as if leaning on a stick, crying ; " Don't come to me, I am an old woman!

Other witnesses stated that Attucks was " leaning upon a stick " when the soldiers opened fire.

One player in the forefront, is leaning forwards, putting his weight on his stick on the ice, while the other player in the background is standing upright.

In particular, Sultan Ibrahim was once publicly rebuked for leaning on his walking stick before Japanese officers and humiliating him in the process.

You can help by leaning a stick or flat rock against the birdbath rim as a ramp to allow them gradual access into the water.

alt = A bronze statue of a man with a large beard, wearing a long coat, leaning on a walking stick, and holding some papers

To make a strike at the ball with a left to right swing the player must present the flat of the ' face ' of the stick to the ball by ' reversing ' the stick head, i. e. by turning the handle through approximately 180 °( while a reverse edge hit would turn the stick head through approximately 90 ° from the position of an upright forehand stoke with the ' face ' of the stick head.

Tackling is permitted as long as the tackler does not make contact with the attacker or his stick before playing the ball ( contact after the tackle may also be penalised if the tackle was made from a position where contact was inevitable ).

These devices usually use a magnetic flux detector to determine the position of the stick.

* Isotonic joysticks are handle sticks where the user can freely change the position of the stick, with more or less constant force.

* Isometric joysticks – where the user controls the stick by varying the amount of force they push with, and the position of the stick remains more or less constant.

* Staff of office, a stick which indicates a position

When that was set, the stick was swung back to the upright position.

This causes one-way clearing valves to stick in the open or closed position, and float valves to leak water due to a failure of the valve seat to seal out water.

The slant of the face will vary according to the position that the stick is used for.

These systems made ' proportional control ' possible, where the position of the control surface in the model is proportional to the position of the control stick on the transmitter.

His compositions are very inventive ; his position as a well-connected monk may have given him more confidence in creating new compositions, whereas a lay artist would prefer to stick to traditional formulae.

Controls are incorporated onto the stick and throttle to enable the pilot to maintain a head-up and eyes-out position – the so-called Hands On Throttle And Stick or HOTAS concept ,.

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When the condition causes the finger to " stick " in a flexed position, this is called " stenosing " tenosynovitis, commonly known as " trigger Finger ".

This position allows a wide array of stick and body movements, including complex attacks and blocks.

Because of this design, care must be taken during cleaning ( especially after long storage ) to ensure that the firing pin does not stick in the forward position within the bolt.

A pogo stick is a device for jumping off the ground in a standing position with the aid of a spring, used as a toy or exercise equipment.

Goalies often use a particular style, but in general they make saves any way they can: catching the puck with their glove hand, deflecting the shot with their stick, blocking it with their leg pads or blocker or another part of their body, or collapsing to butterfly position to block any low shot coming, especially in close proximity.

* Butterfly save: On low shots, modern goaltenders usually work in the " butterfly " position, keeping their knees together and their stick covering their five-hole, or knee gap.