A single spun yarn may be crochet as is, or braided or plied with another.

In plying, two or more yarns are spun together, almost always in the opposite sense from which they were spun individually ; for example, two Z-twist yarns are usually plied with an S-twist.

A single spun yarn may be knitted as is, or braided or plied with another.

In plying, two or more yarns are spun together, almost always in the opposite sense from which they were spun individually ; for example, two Z-twist yarns are usually plied with an S-twist.

The Norse regularly plied the Volga with their trade goods: furs, tusks, seal fat for boat sealant and slaves.

Other stories include ludicrous " kiss and tell " and similar stories by people who are portrayed as mentally disturbed, often with highly bizarre elements ; examples include allegations by a man who claimed that, on holiday touring in his caravan, he found a campsite run by Elvis Presley who, when plied with drink, admitted to the Kennedy assassination ; another from a retired toilet attendant who described the nature of faeces from various little-known celebrities and an elderly woman who blames anti-social behaviour in her area on bored Newsnight presenters, as well as a mental home patient who claimed to have had sex with a number of children's TV puppets.

They plied Big Nose Kate with more booze and suggested to her a way to get even with Holliday.

After Cúchulainn has defeated a series of Connacht champions, Medb sends for Ferdiad, but only agrees to fight Cúchulainn after Findabair, Ailill and Medb's daughter, has seductively plied him with alcohol, and Medb has variously bribed, shamed and goaded him to do so.

The Hoorn fleet plied the seven seas and returned laden with precious commodities.

" Red Bank was settled by English colonists beginning in the 17th century and became a center for shipbuilding, with its population growing rapidly after 1809 with the arrival of regularly scheduled passenger ships that plied the route to Manhattan.

Weston, afterwards aided by Mrs Turner, the widow of a physician, and by an apothecary called Franklin, plied Overbury with sulfuric acid in the form of copper vitriol.

While Cynthia Lennon said that Magic Alex had " plied John and George with lurid stories " ...." without a single shred of evidence ".

" He did make a successful escape from Castle Island on 2 August, after his servant plied the sentries with drink.

The athletes of the parish distinguished themselves in wrestling, boxing, quoit throwing ; the children cheered the mummers and the morris dancers ; and round a maypole decorated with ribbons, the lads and lasses plied their nimble feet to the music of the fifes, bagpipes, drums and fiddles.

The first steamboat plied its trade between Gravesend and London in the early 19th century, bringing with it a steadily increasing number of visitors to The Terrace Pier Gardens, Windmill Hill, Springhead Gardens and Rosherville Gardens.

Poodle clippers plied their trade ; jugglers amused the quid nuncs with feats of dexterity ; traveling dentists pulled teeth and sold balsams ; clowns tumbled, and last, but not least, pickpockets lifted

The Ophir was a 6814-ton steamship owned by the Orient Steamship Co, fitted with refrigeration equipment, which plied the Suez Canal route from England to Australia during the 1890s and the years leading to World War I, when she was converted to an armed merchant cruiser.

It is Giraldus Cambrensis in De Instructione Principus who recounts how a great banquet was held at Scone, and the Pictish king and his nobles were plied with drinks and became quite drunk.

Wild believed Lyon would know Sheppard's whereabouts, so he plied her with drinks at a brandy shop near Temple Bar until she betrayed him.

Korah plied Moses with the following questions: " Does a ṭallit made entirely of blue wool need fringes?

There it was his duty to carry out the measures of commercial war against England, known as the Continental System ; but it is known that he not only viewed those tyrannical measures with disgust, but secretly relaxed them in favour of those merchants who plied him with douceurs.

Walter was a drunk, and soon became reliant on his brother, who readily plied him with several bottles of gin and brandy a day.

Michael Eddowes says Oltmans plied de Mohrenschildt with pharmaceuticals, which Oltmans denies, saying instead that he rescued de Mohrenschildt from a mental institution to bring him to the " famous " clairvoyant, Croiset.

The Kriegsmarine later used some of the motorized Sea Lion barges for landings on the Russian-held Baltic islands in 1941 and, though most of them were eventually returned to the inland rivers they originally plied, a reserve was kept for military transport duties and for filling out amphibious flotillas.

Depending on the weight desired, the yarn may or may not be plied, and the number of strands twisted together varies.

Tony refuses to give her the money he had saved for Léon, offering her instead to give her money when she needs it — the same con he plied on Léon.

The merchants lived and plied their trade at the Steelyard, a complex of warehouses, offices, and dwellings on the north bank of the Thames.

During the later half of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century, the bay was plied by passenger steamships and packet boat lines connecting the various cities on it, notably the Baltimore Steam Packet Company.

The song tells the fictional tale of a beautiful fishmonger who plied her trade on the streets of Dublin, but who died young, of a fever.

In 1873, a sea captain by the name of George Spencer who had once lived and worked on the American Great Lakes and had gained a first-hand knowledge of the practical working capabilities of the sailing barges that plied their trade on the lakes recognised the potential use of similar craft in the protected waters of the Hauraki Gulf, Auckland.

His parents worked on the riverboats that plied the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.

From the 1930 through the 1990s ( with a few exceptions ), the letterer plied his craft on the same page drawn by the penciler.

There, they were either plied with alcohol or drugs until they passed out, tricked into putting on handcuffs, or simply grabbed by force.

In July, Field informed Wild about Sheppard, so Wild sought for Lyon on 22 July and plied her with drinks at Temple Bar until she betrayed Sheppard.

During his time in Salcombe, Gallico serialised an account of the sinking of the MV Princess Victoria, the ferry which plied between Larne and Stranraer, an event which caused the death of every woman and child on board.

In the 1950s, double-decker buses of the South Western Bus Company plied on the Galle Road in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

A two-ply is thus a yarn plied from two strands, a six-ply is one from six strands, and so on.

Coaches plied from Westminster to the Temple, and from several other stairs too and fro, as in the streets ; sleds, sliding with skeetes, a bull-baiting, horse and coach races, puppet plays and interludes, cooks, tipling and other lewd places, so that it seemed to be a bacchanalian triumph, or carnival on the water .< ref > Hudson | issue = 155 – 166

The Naper ships plied the Great Lakes with Fort Dearborn on Lake Michigan being one of the ports they regularly visited.

Riverboats and steamers that plied between Grafton and Sydney were gradually replaced by rail and better road connections and from the 1970s Yamba's appeal as a holiday resort started to impact on the people of both New South Wales and Southern Queensland.

At one time, thirteen trains a day plied between Stamford through South Luffenham and on to Seaton on a double line, although one track was taken up in 1914.