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The caltrop was further used in the first Wars of Scottish Independence ( 1296 – 1328 ), the second wars ( 1332 – 1357 ) and continued in use into the 17th century ; a single example was found in Jamestown, Virginia, in the United States.
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Eichhornia crassipes was a recent specie in the open water areas of the swamp in the midst of Polygonum ( Buckwheat ) and Trapa ( Water caltrop or Boiled water chestnut ).
caltrop and used
Shuriken, especially hira-shuriken, were also used in other novel ways — they might be embedded in the ground, injuring those who stepped on them ( similar to a caltrop or tetsubishi ), wrapped in fuse to be lit and thrown to cause fire, or wrapped in a cloth soaked in poison and lit to cover an area with a cloud of poisonous smoke.
Iron caltrop used in Vietnam.
During the Second World War, large caltrop shaped objects made from reinforced concrete were used as anti-tank devices, although it seems that these were rare.
III Corps traces its lineage to the days of horse cavalry, which used the caltrop as an area denial weapon.
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Examples include wild rice ( Zizania ), water caltrop ( Trapa natans ), Chinese water chestnut ( Eleocharis dulcis ), Indian lotus ( Nelumbo nucifera ), water spinach ( Ipomoea aquatica ) and watercress ( Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum )
The Chinese name is língjiǎo ( 菱角 ), líng meaning " caltrop " and jiǎo meaning " horn.
The Latin name tribulus originally meant the caltrop ( a spiky weapon ), but in Classical times already the word meant this plant as well.
* The Water caltrop ( Trapa natans ), eaten for its starchy seed
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The provision masses of some species are among the most complex in shape of any group of bees ; whereas most bees fill their brood cells with a soupy mass, and others form simple spheroidal pollen masses, Xylocopa form elongate and carefully sculpted masses that have several projections which keep the bulk of the mass from coming into contact with the cell walls, sometimes resembling an irregular caltrop.
Alternatively, three stakes might be roped together into a defence resembling the Czech hedgehog — a sort of giant caltrop.
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A 16th century Russian caltrop
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A caltrop ( also known as caltrap, galtrop, cheval trap, galthrap, galtrap, calthrop, crow's foot ) is an antipersonnel weapon made up of two or more sharp nails or spines arranged in such a manner that one of them always points upward from a stable base ( for example, a tetrahedron ).
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A caltrop has had a variety of symbolic uses and is commonly found in heraldry.
The remains of various plants, including water caltrop, Nelumbo nucifera, acorns, melon, wild kiwi fruit, blackberries, peach, the foxnut or Gorgon euryale and bottle gourd, were found at Hemudu and Tianluoshan.
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File: Makibishi. JPG | Japanese iron caltrop makibishi.
The name Mitsubishi ( 三菱 consists of two parts: " mitsu " meaning " three " and " hishi " ( which becomes " bishi " under rendaku ) meaning " water caltrop " ( also called " water chestnut "), and hence " rhombus ", which is reflected in the company's famous logo.
A water plant with similarly-shaped spiked seeds is called the " water caltrop ", Trapa natans.
The Japanese version of the caltrop is called makibishi.
However, dragon's teeth are immobile, so the analogy with the caltrop is inexact.
The caltrop is the symbol of the US Army's III Corps, which is based at Fort Hood, Texas.
The Finnish noble family Fotangel ( Swedish for ' caltrop ') had arms Gules, three caltrops Argent.
Examples include species of Acaena, some of the Solanaceae, and the water caltrop, Trapa natans.
Larrea is a genus of flowering plants in the caltrop family, Zygophyllaceae.
The Zygophyllaceae is a family of flowering plants that contains the bean-caper and caltrop.
Guaiacum, sometimes spelled Guajacum, is a genus of flowering plants in the caltrop family Zygophyllaceae.
Improvised caltrop from large welded nails.
The water caltrop, moustache fruit, water chestnut, buffalo nut, bat nut, devil pod, Singhara ( स िं घ ा ड ा) or Pani-fol ( প া ন ি ফল ) is either of three, extent species of the genus Trapa: Trapa natans, T. bicornis and the endangered Trapa rossica.
The generic name Trapa is derived from the Latin word for " thistle ," calcitrappa, as also is another common name for the water caltrop.
Water caltrop ( T. natans ) seeds
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The depersonalization continued as the dancer was further metamorphosed by the play of lights upon his figure.
But his own work was evolving further.
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There was one further step in my religious progress.
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In 1954 I was drafted and after serving two years honorably on Active Duty I was not required to participate in any further Army Reserve activities.
In order to further refine the management of passenger vehicles, on July 1, 1958, the actual title to every vehicle was transferred, by Executive Order, to the Division of Methods, Research and Office Services.
Counsel for the Government invited Du Pont's views on this proposal before recommending a specific program, but stated that if the court desired, or if counsel for Du Pont thought further discussion would not be profitable, the Government was prepared to submit a plan within thirty days.
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The prevalent opinion which we encountered in a variety of expressions in your country denied not only the existence of this conflict but it was elaborated even further with an incredible semantic dexterity.
We may carry this sequence one step further and say that at seventy he was a poet at the height of his powers, wanting only the impetus of two tragedies, one personal, the other national, to loose those powers in poetry.
A further example of the incompatible difference in personalities was when two policemen held up a Torrio beer convoy on a West Side street and demanded $300 to let it through.
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The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.
But he further said that it was better politics to let others question the wisdom of administration policies first.
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