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hook and catches
Whaitiri gives him a barbed hook, and he catches a groper, which she offers to the gods.
To make one stitch, the machine lowers the threaded needle through the cloth into the bobbin area, where a rotating hook ( or other hooking mechanism ) catches the upper thread at the point just after it goes through the needle.
Today, catches are tightly regulated and the Pacific cod quota is split among fisheries that use hook and line gear, pots, and bottom trawls.
The hook catches on part of the drawer or door and prevents opening unless the rod is bent downward simultaneously to disengage the hook.
However, if it catches fast moving ' junk rocks ' on the high end of the skyhook, their kinetic energy will help lift the sky hook into higher orbits.
The word tailhook refers to the hook underneath the tail of the aircraft that catches the arresting wire suspended across the flight deck in order to stop the landing plane quickly.
Upon jumping down while shouting " The bolt of Tash falls from above ," his hauberk catches on a hook and leaves him hanging there, humiliated and trapped.
Some proponents of the term " hook and lateral " claim that the " hook " refers to the pattern run by the receiver who catches the pass from the quarterback.
If the ring is first swung from behind the hook and it swings back and catches on the hook, the score for the throw is three points.

hook and loop
Crocheted fabric is begun by placing a slip-knot loop on the hook ( though other methods, such as a magic ring or simple folding over of the yarn may be used ), pulling another loop through the first loop, and repeating this process to create a chain of a suitable length.
At any one time at the end of a stitch, there is only one loop left on the hook.
A Doppler on Wheels radar loop of a hook echo and associated mesocyclone in Tornadoes of 2009 # June 5 | Goshen County, Wyoming on June 5, 2009.
Once the chain is completed, the first row is worked by inserting the hook back into the previous link of the chain, and a loop from the free end of the yarn is grabbed with the hook and pulled back through the link.
Once the correct number of loops is obtained, the process is reversed with each loop being worked off from the hook by pulling a fresh loop of yarn through each stitch, working from left to right.
Today, most cloth diapers are fastened with hook and loop tape ( velcro ) or snaps.
The first is the wire hanger, which has a simple loop of wire, most often steel, in a flattened triangle shape that continues into a hook at the top.
If a dinghy is towed, an extra line with a loop in the end ( known as a lazy painter ) can be attached to a dinghy so that if the towing line breaks, there is a line to grab with a boat hook.
With the hair folded over the finger, the wigmaker pulls a loop of hair under the mesh, and then moves the hook forward to catch both sides of the loop.
:# For straight strokes with initial circle or loop or hook, the shun hook is written in opposite direction ( section ).
Place hand or hook through hole and grab thread on top and draw through bottom of loop.
He worked on inventing Velcro hook and loop fasteners for ten years starting in 1948.
In 1955 he successfully patented hook and loop, eventually selling 60 million yards ( about 55, 000 km ) a year through a multi-million dollar company.
He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1999 for inventing Velcro hook and loop fasteners.
A wrist loop may also be present, although its chief purpose is for hanging one's whip on a hook.
Although any device that serves to secure two loose ends is casually called a buckle, if it consists of two separate pieces with one for a hook and the other for a loop, it should be called a clasp.
In fishing, a bumper knot ( also known as a bait loop or egg loop ) can be used to secure soft or loose bait, including clusters of eggs, to a hook.

hook and yarn
Crochet (; ) is a process of creating fabric from yarn, thread, or other material strands using a crochet hook.
Crochet differs from knitting in that only one stitch is active at one time ( exceptions being Tunisian crochet and Broomstick lace ), stitches made with the same diameter of yarn are comparably taller, and a single crochet hook is used instead of two knitting needles.
Basic materials required for crochet are a hook and some type of material that will be crocheted, most commonly yarn or thread.
Crafters may have a preference for one type of hook material over another due to aesthetic appeal, yarn glide, or hand disorders such as arthritis, where bamboo or wood hooks are favored over metal for the perceived warmth and flexibility during use.
Though this is true when comparing a single crochet swatch with a stockinette swatch, both made with the same size yarn and needle / hook, it is not necessarily true for crochet in general.
Most crochet uses far less than 1 / 3 more yarn than knitting for comparable pieces, and a crocheter can get similar feel and drape to knitting by using a larger hook or thinner yarn.
When cabling a knitted piece, a hook is easier to grab and hold the yarn.
To work in the round a double-ended crochet hook and two balls of yarn are used.
The first hook and ball of yarn are used to add loops ( casting on ).
When the process is reversed ( as described above ), the loops are worked off using the second hook and second ball of yarn.
Using a flexible cable to connect the two ends of the double-ended crochet hook, a single ball of yarn is sufficient.
There are a variety of stitches than can be created, dependent on how and where the hook is inserted and how the working yarn is held.
A hook is placed on the top of the shaft to secure the developing yarn, and the newly-spun yarn is wound around the shaft underneath the whorl.
If there is a hook at the upper end of the shaft, the yarn is spiral-wound up the shaft and caught in the hook ; if there is no hook at the top, then the yarn is spiral-wound up the shaft and secured with a half hitch ( or more, for slippery fibres ) at the top.

hook and each
Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.
In Turkish each of these are separate letters, rather than versions of other letters, where dotted capital İ and lower case i are the same letter, as are dotless capital I and lowercase ı. Typographically, Ç and Ş are often rendered with a subdot, as in ; when a hook is used, it tends to have more a comma shape than the usual cedilla.
A loom with a 400 hook head might have four threads connected to each hook, resulting in a fabric that is 1600 warp ends wide with four repeats of the weave going across.
Shaka is also supposed to have introduced a larger, heavier shield made of cowhide and to have taught each warrior how to use the shield's left side to hook the enemy's shield to the right, exposing his ribs for a fatal spear stab.
The dial switch in the base interrupted the line current by repeatedly but very briefly disconnecting the line 1 – 10 times for each digit, and the hook switch ( in the center of the circuit diagram ) disconnected the line and the transmitter battery while the handset was on the cradle.
Both remain on the hook and then the process is repeated, working from right to left, until each link in the chain has been worked.
* API-based: These keyloggers hook keyboard APIs ; the operating system then notifies the keylogger each time a key is pressed and the keylogger simply records it.
The curved portion of each hook snagged a string that could raise one of the warp threads, whereas the straight portion of each hook pressed against the punched paper, which was draped around a perforated cylinder.
Specifically, each hook passed at a right angle through an eyelet of a needle.
Other key features include horsehide or goatskin leather for the shell, dual-knit waist and wrist cuffs, full-length brass zipper, two brass grommets under each armpit for ventilation, a metal hook under the collar to fasten the top of the opening, and snap-down collar so the tips won't blow around from propwash and jetwash.
The song is written in a traditional narrative style song form where there are no choruses, the hook of the song being contained in the last line of each stanza with the pull of the story being used to keep the listener's interest alive.
The train was screw coupled ; each carriage was first coupled by a loose chain and hook coupling to the next ; the slack on this was then taken up by a turnbuckle screw arrangement, until the buffers of the two carriages were touching.
When an enemy aircraft chose one fighter as his target ( the " bait " fighter ; his wingman being the " hook "), the two wingmen turned in towards each other.
Their turns ( loops ) are normally touching in the unloaded position, and they have a hook, eye or some other means of attachment at each end.
They usually have a hook or eye form at each end for attachment.
The beakers are connected with a three-way tube: a regular siphon ( U-shaped tube ), with an additional tube extending upward from the hook in the tube: one end of the tube goes down into each beaker ( as in a normal siphon ), while the third end faces upward, and is open to the air.
A type of crochet needle with a hook at each end, known as a cro-hook, is used to make double-sided crochet pieces.
It is a hike-in campground with six primitive campsites, each with a picnic table, fire ring and lantern hook.

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