This term also refers to certain types of barbed bristles that cover the dorsal and posterior surface of a tarantula's or caterpillar's abdomen.

Moulting serves several purposes, such as renewing the tarantula's outer cover ( shell ) and replacing missing appendages.

The tunnel, usually about three times the tarantula's leg span in length, leads to a chamber which is large enough for the spider to safely molt in.

Vickers Armstrong also developed a SPAGG based on the chassis of the Mk. E 6-ton light tank / Dragon Medium Mark IV tractor, mounting a Vickers QF-1 " Pom-Pom " gun of 40 mm.

By the time of the war, they fielded the SdKfz 10 / 4 and 6 / 2, cargo halftracks mounting single 20 mm or 37 mm AA guns ( respectively ).

The M1025 / M1026 and M1043 / M1044 armament carriers provide mounting and firing capabilities for the M134 Minigun, the Mk 19 grenade launcher, the M2 heavy machine gun, the M240G / B machine gun and M249 LMG.

Since the 9 / 11 attacks in 2001, there has been mounting pressure to reform and modernize the royal family's rule, an agenda championed by King Abdullah both before and after his accession in 2005.

| hardpoints = 2 × side fuselage mounting stub / pylon stations

In order to counter this, and possibly with an eye already at the mounting Persian preparations, in 483 / 2 BC the Athenian statesman Themistocles used his political skills and influence to persuade the Athenian assembly to start the construction of 200 triremes, using the income of the newly discovered silver mines at Laurion.

Note that automation of the NFS mounting process may take place — perhaps using and / or automounting facilities.

These mounting marks can be microdots ( down to 0. 3 mm ) and / or mounting crosses.

Some of his recommendations were followed up ; such as for mounting " rams " on armoured vehicles in order to cope with the difficult hedgerow country ( O ' Connor, 5 / 3 / 41-5 / 3 / 44 Aug 24, 26 1944 ).

Meanwhile, Schönert was made CO of II ./ NJG 5, and an armourer serving with the Gruppe, Oberfeldwebel Mahle developed a working arrangement with the unit's Bf 110s mounting a pair of MG FF / M cannon in the rear compartment of the upper fuselage, firing through the canopy.

They demanded that either the MK 108s be removed and replaced by MG FF / Ms or the angle of the mounting be changed.

The MG 42 was ill-suited for internal / coaxial mounting due to the method of barrel change.

In recent decades the close coupled tank / bowl combination has become the most popular residential system, as it has been found by ceramic engineers that improved waterway design is a more effective way to enhance the bowl's flushing action than high tank mounting.

Their design had started out with the 20 mm MG 151 / 20 cannons, compact enough to be mounted in an internal wing bay mounting in the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, but it was found that it took an average of twenty 20 mm hits to shoot down a typical four engined bomber.

Though most G / K43's are equipped with a telescopic sight mounting rail, the vast majority of the rifles were issued in their standard infantry form without a scope.

Plans were made to produce other variants, including an assault gun version of the Jagdpanzer 38 ( t ) carrying a 105 mm StuH 42 main cannon, a version mounting the 7. 5 cm KwK 42 L / 70 gun from the Panther, and an anti-aircraft variant mounted with a flak turret.

I had felt the draft they were making while mounting the stairs.

After how many generations is such wealth ( mounting all the while through the manipulations of high finance ) purified of taint??

Some were little more than stopgap solutions, mounting an anti-tank gun on a tracked vehicle to give mobility, while others were more sophisticated designs.

Linux by default converts uppercase letters to lower case while mounting ISO filesystems.

Because of their origin as mounting systems for railroad signaling relays, they are still sometimes called relay racks, but the 19-inch rack format has remained a constant while the technology that is mounted within it has changed to completely different fields.

The regency council at home was frustrated by the mounting national debt, while the king and his commanders on the Continent were angered by the government in England's failure to provide sufficient funds.

Herodotus's story is that while mounting his horse, the tip of Cambyses's scabbard broke and his sword pierced his thigh-Herodotus mentions it is the same place where he stabbed a sacred cow in Egypt.

Britten wrote Albert Herring for the English Opera Group in 1947, and it was while on tour that Pears came up with the idea of mounting a Festival in the small Suffolk seaside town of Aldeburgh, six miles from Snape, where Britten had now moved to a house on Crag Path.

Another reason to use both methods is that through-hole mounting can provide needed strength for components likely to endure physical stress, while components that are expected to go untouched will take up less space using surface-mount techniques.

In the book, Stowe discusses each of the major characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin and cites " real life equivalents " to them while also mounting a more " aggressive attack on slavery in the South than the novel itself had.

The front inboard brakes were fixed to the gearbox and did not move with the wheels, while the rear brake pipe was coiled multiple times around the rear trailing-arm mounting tube to absorb suspension movement.

The British Three-Eleven project never left the drawing board, while the Russian Il-86 widebody proposal eventually gave way to a more conventional wing-mounted engine design, most likely due to the inefficiencies of mounting such large engines on the aft fuselage.

The legs could be extended to allow it to be used in the anti-aircraft role, and when lowered, it could be placed to allow the gun to be fired " remotely " while it swept an arc in front of the mounting with fire, or aimed through a periscope attached to the tripod.

Stirrups are usually paired and are used to aid in mounting and as a support while using a riding animal ( usually a horse or other equine, such as a mule ).

Riedesel, whose forces Burgoyne had stationed at Castleton for a time while he was at Skenesboro, had observed that the area was rich in draft animals and horses, which might be seized for the army's benefit ( including the mounting of Riedesel's currently unmounted dragoons ).

The right to counsel, which also became increasingly entrenched in the US following the American Revolution, gave defendants a practical method of mounting a defense while remaining silent, and the development of the modern police force in the early 19th century opened up the question of pre-trial silence for the first time.

If the length of the watercraft deck prevents the mounting of three masts, it is a boat, while a single-masted hull can be termed a craft.

His method consisted in " beating with clappers, that represent the hoofs of a horse, upon some material that serves to represent the road-bed over which the horse is supposed to be traveling " as well as " stamping, pawing, or jumping about in a restive manner while the rider is mounting, and then starting off, first at a trot, then a gallop, and finally a run, or at any gait desired, in any order ".

Into the 2000s, the school came under criticism for keeping the entirety of the increasingly taxed Norval property while so little of it was actually used ; this argument is gained increased credence in light of the consistent yearly tuition hikes and mounting legal costs.

: And while we are mounting prays low to the Lord:

The mounting brackets connect the components and provide the means for boresighting the weapon while the encased rockets are loaded at the rear of the launcher.

Time was of the essence and mounting pressure to repopulate the Jewish Quarter led to the construction of a superstructure which allowed the residential buildings to be built while the archaeologists continued to work below.

But in view of the fact that our city of Florence, daughter and offspring of Rome, was mounting and pursuing great purposes, while Rome was in its decline, I thought it proper to trace in this chronicle the origins of the city of Florence, so far as I have been able to recover them, and to relate the city's further development at greater length, and at the same time to give a brief account of events throughout the world as long as it please God, in the hope of whose favor I undertook the said enterprise rather than in reliance on my own poor wits.