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fixed and wooden
Galvanized sheet fixed to wooden or steel members are mostly adopted in works of temporary character.
It was written on the skin of the ox sacrificed to the god upon its agreement and fixed onto a wooden frame or a shield.
Sometimes the body of the bull was mummified and fixed in a standing position on a foundation made of wooden planks.
The chairs were in turn fixed to the sleepers by two iron spikes, half-round wooden cross sleepers being employed on embankments and stone blocks square by deep in cuttings.
They build systems of wooden tripods across the rapids fixed in holes carved in the rock by the water current.
Wildman for example fixed a parallel array of wooden bars across the top of a straw hive or skep ( with a separate straw top to be fixed on later ) " so that there are in all seven bars of deal "
It was possibly at this point that a shelf or inner cover was inserted some way under the lid of Cuthbert's coffin, supported on three wooden bars across the width, and probably with two iron rings fixed to it for lifting it off.
The petard consisted of a brass or iron bell-shaped device filled with gunpowder fixed to a wooden base.
Depending on design, a petard could be secured by propping it against the gate using beams as illustrated, or nailing it in place by way of a wooden board fixed to the end of the petard in advance.
These divisions are not fixed: some overshoes look more like whole foot clogs ( see Spanish albarca ) whilst other wooden soled clogs raise and protect clothing in the way that overshoes do, see Japanese geta.
Basket presses are composed of a cylinder of wooden slats on top of a fixed plate, with a moveable plate that can be forced downward ( usually by a central ratcheting threaded screw.
The seven-ton vehicle had two direct-drive reluctance motors, with fixed electromagnets acting on iron bars attached to a wooden cylinder mounted on each axle, and simple commutators.
It consists of a thin wooden blade fixed in a wooden block ( often attached to a tripod ), which holds one or more contact microphones.
In 1767, Ketley ironworks began producing cast iron plates, which were fixed to the top of wooden rails with nails, to provide a more durable running surface.
The rails had projecting lugs ( or ears ) with a hole to enable them to be fixed to the underlying wooden rail.
The metal plate of the shield that remains would have been fixed onto a plain, round wooden shield behind it.
Early boats wooden and GRP boats used buoyancy bags fixed under the benches and thwarts for internal buoyancy but nowadays foam reinforced plastic built boats have built in buoyancy tanks improving stiffness and removing much of the maintenance associated with buoyancy bags.
** Another method of building wooden boats is clinker, a technique originally identified with the Vikings in which wooden planks are fixed to each other with a slight overlap that is bevelled for a tight fit.
The spool was in the center of a wooden bar which held the lines a fixed distance apart.
The inside of the wooden stock usually has a brass strip fixed to it to reduce wear.
Southcott left a sealed wooden box of prophecies, usually known as Joanna Southcott's Box, with the instruction that it be opened only at a time of national crisis, and then only in the presence of all 24 bishops of the Church of England ( there were only 24 at the time ), who were to spend a fixed period of time beforehand studying Southcott's prophecies.

fixed and scaffold
To limit sway a facade brace is fitted to the face of the scaffold every 30 metres or so at an angle of 35 °- 55 ° running right from the base to the top of the scaffold and fixed at every level.
Later, a " scaffold " with a trap-door tended to be used, so victims dropped down and died quickly from a broken neck rather than through strangulation, especially if extra weights were fixed to their ankles.

fixed and was
`` Jackson recruited his critters, and him and me fixed up his wagon while we was waiting for you to catch up.
`` You have every right to be '', I replied gravely in the Manu dialect, but my attention was fixed on Brassnose, the biggest and strongest of us.
She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.
During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.
The head was then fixed on a pole at Westminster, and the rest of the body was buried under the gallows.
They marched with bayonets fixed, and as fixed on their faces was anger, fear, and torment.
Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.
This habit had become so fixed over the years that it seemed futile to do anything for which no one was waiting.
A goal was fixed, as given in Table 2, and attention focused on its fulfillment.
Finally, the conception of the natural community of all possessions which originated with the Stoics was firmly fixed in a tradition by More's time, although it was not accepted by all the theologian-philosophers of the Middle Ages.
It fixed on Dartmouth College, which was ready-made and just what the proctor ordered.
There was a fixed grin on Roberts' face, made hideous by the swollen nose and the smeared blood.
Rev's face was suddenly a little fixed and questioning.
Starting with the room completely blacked out, as it was when we came in, he unerringly fixed things so that the whole place was bathed in the maximum of light without at any point admitting even so much as a crack of glare.
Casey kept his smile fixed, but some small inner disturbance was working on him as he thought again about Needham, who was eight or ten years older than the girl.
The appearance of fixed lines in this spectrum was successfully explained by these orbital transitions.
The Bohr model of the atom fixed the problem of energy loss from radiation from a ground state ( by declaring that there was no state below this ), and more importantly explained the origin of spectral lines.
The computer was brought to Polytechnic University of Turin where it was fixed and used to run the BASIC programming language .</ li >

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