They differ from machetes in that they generally have far thicker, tapered blades optimized for chopping European vegetation ( the thin, flat blade of the machete is better for soft plants found in tropical environments ), sword-like hilts and guards, and sometimes a sawback-blade.

Though typically flat the whole length on heavy duty trucks, the rails may sometimes be tapered or arched for clearance around the engine or over the axles.

The rhabdus ( pole ) had a flat base, and the main structure tapered towards the top, with a blunt end ( one which the plastinx or manes was balanced ).

The kampílan has a distinct profile, with the tapered blade being much broader and thinner at the point than at its base, sometimes with a protruding spikelet along the flat side of the tip and a bifurcated hilt which is believed to represent a mythical creature's open mouth.

Unlike a butt ( flat ) joint between two lengths of railway, each section is tapered diagonally, allow for a smooth transition and high-speeds across the gap.

The AVS also featured a boxier design than the Famicom: flat on top, and a bottom half that tapered down to a smaller footprint.

Components such as legs will often be straight, not tapered, and surfaces will be flat, rather than curved.

Human hairs were stuck in the drying blood on the flat, heavy end ; the tapered end, used for driving nails into wood, was chipped.

The flat, hard cap was small, but he thrust it to the back of his head.

Place flat palms on either side of the head a few inches away from the ears, fingers pointing toward the shoulders.

A black, snake-like object swayed eerily in front of him, spewing bubbles from its flat cobra head.

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While the Dines anemometer had an error of only 1 % at it did not respond very well to low winds due to the poor response of the flat plate vane required to turn the head into the wind.

They have a broad, flat carapace, which conceals the head and bears a single pair of compound eyes.

The head is flat, U-shaped and has a prominent ridge running from the blowhole to the top of the upper lip.

** coathanger – slang for high contact to the head, usually by a stiff arm, which causes a player to land flat on their back.

Players are permitted to play the ball with the flat of the ' face side ' and with the edges of the head and handle of the field hockey stick with the exception that, for reasons of safety, the ball may not be struck ' hard ' with a forehand edge stroke, because of the difficulty of controlling the height and direction of the ball from that stroke.

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.

The Flammarion engraving ( 1888 ) depicts a traveller who arrives at the edge of a flat Earth and sticks his head through the firmament.

Jordanes also recounted how Priscus had described Attila the Hun, the Emperor of the Huns from 434-453, as: " Short of stature, with a broad chest and a large head ; his eyes were small, his beard thin and sprinkled with grey ; and he had a flat nose and tanned skin, showing evidence of his origin.

The ball is struck with the broad sides of the mallet head rather than its round and flat tips.

The Po (,, ancient Ligurian: Bodincus or Bodencus, ) is a river that flows either or – considering the length of the Maira, a right bank tributary – eastward across northern Italy, from a spring seeping from a stony hillside at Pian del Re, a flat place at the head of the Val Po under the northwest face of Monviso ( in the Cottian Alps ) through a delta projecting into the Adriatic Sea near Venice.

The head is long, skull flat, with little stop and a tapering muzzle.

* Tacos de Cabeza or head tacos, in which there is a flat punctured metal plate from which steam emerges to cook the head of the cow.

* Machine head, a flat handle for the worm gear on a string instrument upon which a string is wound

Gould's most popular villain was Flattop Jones, a freelance hitman with a large head as flat as an aircraft carrier's flight deck.

Like other pikes, the body plan is typical of ambush predators with an elongated body, flat head and dorsal, pelvic and anal fins set far back on the body.

5 feet 6 or 8 inches high, weighs between 150 and 160 pounds, rather bright complexion, but not a mulatto, broad shoulders, larger flat nose, large eyes, broad flat feet, rather knockneed, walks brisk and active, hair on the top of the head very thin, no beard, except on the upper lip and the top of the chin, a scar on one of his temples, also one on the back of his neck, a large knot on one of the bones of his right arm, near the wrist, produced by a blow.

In Milwaukee vernacular architecture, a Polish flat is an existing small house or cottage that has been lifted up to accommodate the creation of a new basement floor housing a separate apartment, then set down again ; thus becoming a modest two-story flat.

Authorities that have knocked over stones during testing or have unilaterally lifted and laid flat any potentially hazardous stones have been criticised, after grieving relatives have discovered that their relative's marker has been moved.

A pallet (), sometimes called a skid, is a flat transport structure that supports goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by a forklift, pallet jack, front loader or other jacking device.

* Sissy squat – a dumbbell is held behind the legs while the heels are lifted off the ground and the torso remains flat while the lifter leans backwards ; sometimes done with a plate held on the chest and one arm holding onto a chair or beam for support.

They then lift the opponent up using their arms wrapped around his torso, falling backwards and dropping the opponent flat on the mat in elevating the opponent so that he / she is lifted and held upside-down before the attackers fall to their backs driving the opponent down to the mat front-first, behind the attackers, as in a belly-to-back suplex.

On the flat, or when used on course between jumps, the two-point position allows the horse to have a great deal of freedom of movement because the rider's weight is lifted off its back.

`` Once I get out on the flat I do.

I started the seed in a flat in June and set out the little pansies in a cold frame.

Then I dry the sheet under mild pressure so that it will lie flat as a board.

And if you're as flat broke as I am, I think we'll have to take the added risk of knocking over a filling station or something before we split for one of us to set up an alibi while the other does his dirty work ''.

Emperor Constantine I ordered in about 325 / 326 that the temple be demolished and the soil-which had provided a flat surface for the temple-be removed, instructing Macarius of Jerusalem, the local Bishop, to build a church on the site.

I think his feeling that even the inanimate world was against him ..." When he shared a flat with Heppenstall and Sayer, he was treated in a patronising manner by the younger men.

Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ): Adams commented, " Dueling pianos, cooing sirens, Valhalla brass, thwacking bass drums, gospel triads, and a Niagara of cascading flat keys all learned to cohabit as I wrote the piece.

In one of his papers, Escher emphasized the importance of dimensionality and described himself as " irritated " by flat shapes: " I make them come out of the plane.

* The Kingdom of Lovely is an attempt by King Danny I ( Danny Wallace ) to create an internet nation based in his flat in London.

* Chebyshev filter ( Type I ) – maximally flat in stopband, sharper cutoff than Butterworth of same order

* R 4. 16 – Mass for the coronation of Napoleon I in B flat major

A lot of us at the Home Office are very much against it, I can tell you, but the interests we are working against are ...' Hallam raised flat palms in a gesture of despair.

Berlin described his visit to her flat: It was very barely furnished — virtually everything in it had, I gathered, been taken away — looted or sold — during the siege.

To tune the sympathetic strings to raga Kafi for example: I Sa, vii ni ( lower case denotes flat ( komal ) I Sa, II Re, iii ga, III Ga ( Shuddh or natural, in Kafi the third is different ascending and descending ), iv ma, V Pa, VI Dha, vii ni, I Sa, II Re, iii ga.

By combining a flat pick with metal finger picks on my middle and ring fingers, I discovered I could instantly switch from fast single-note runs to banjo rolls and get the best of both worlds.

Asked if he would change something he had produced on an editor's say-so, he answered with a flat " No. " But he added: " Oh, I will take a suggestion for revision.

Dr. Wayne T. Robinson has claimed to be the original painter of the Liberty Mule: " In early October 1906, I climbed up the face of the Allen Bluff to a ledge and with some coal tar made a flat picture of a character from a famous comic strip of that day.

In a flat, calm voice, he replied, " Stephanie, I have no idea what you mean ..." and hung up.

The remainder of Part I is largely carried by the soprano in B flat, in what Burrows terms a rare instance of tonal stability.