Unlike high jump, however, the athlete in the vault has the ability to select the horizontal position of the bar before each jump and can place it a distance beyond the back of the box, the metal pit that the pole is placed into immediately before takeoff.

Today's pole vaulters benefit from poles produced by wrapping pre-cut sheets of fiberglass that contains resin around a metal pole mandrel, to produce a slightly pre-bent pole that bends more easily under the compression caused by an athlete's take-off.

* < div id =" box "> Box: A trapezoidal indentation in the ground with a metal or fiberglass covering at the end of the runway in which vaulters " plant " their pole.

It consists of a heavy blade mounted atop a wooden or metal pole with a pointed metal counter weight used for striking and stabbing on the opposite end.

* Fireman's pole, wooden pole or a metal tube or pipe installed between floors in fire stations

* Flagpole ( structure ), metal pole from which a flag is hung

A pole with a sharp metal spike was used for pushing the skater forward.

The burial chamber became the location of food and drink offerings by the descendants to a small bronze asen, a metal pole topped with a small circular alter for receiving the offerings.

The winding is wrapped around a short wide cylindrical core that forms one pole, and a thick metal housing that wraps around the outside of the windings forms the other part of the magnetic circuit, bringing the magnetic field to the front to form the other pole.

At the east end of the park where Antonio Street and Franklin Street intersect there is a flag pole beside a large metal sign which reads Welcome to Anthony in red letters facing to the east towards I-10.

Nearby is a metal pole topped by a written sign.

The miniature of the Cloudbase exterior, which ran to six feet ( 1. 8 m ) in length, proved to be too heavy to be held up with strings and was instead supported by a metal pole.

Bamboo poles were introduced in the 20th century and a metal box in the runway for planting the pole became standard.

The modern event sees athletes run down a strip of track, plant the pole in the metal box, and vault over the horizontal bar before letting go of the pole and falling backwards onto the landing matress.

The metal bar clamps the toe down onto the pins, and can be released by pressing down on the plastic clip with a ski pole.

The fore axletree and the splinter bar above it ( supporting the springs ) are united by a piece of wood or metal called a futchel, which forms a socket for the pole that extends from the front axle.

Most bus stops are identified with a metal sign attached to a pole or light standard.

alt = A metal chair, painted green, with footrest and wooden seat suspended above a grassy area by a metal pole on the right side

At the same time, the vaulter is dropping the pole tip into the box.

In English it is generally called an Assegai. A shami Arab warrior ( ca. 1914 ) carrying a long hunting Assegai | az-zaġāyah It is a pole weapon used for throwing or hurling, usually a light spear or javelin made of hard wood and pointed with a forged iron tip. The az-zaġāyah played an important role during the Islamic conquest as well as during later periods, well into the 20th century.

The 1906 " Peary System " dogsled drive for the pole across the rough sea ice of the Arctic Ocean started from the north tip of Ellesmere at 83 ° north latitude.

# To tip of spire / antenna: Height to the tip of spire, pinnacle, antenna, mast or flag pole.

This Bihu is also associated with the lighting of akaxi gonga or akaxbonti, lamps at the tip of a tall bamboo pole, to show the souls of the dead the way to heaven, a practice that is common to many communities in India, as well as Asia and Europe.

The ' tip ' ( i. e., the inner conductor ) usually carries the positive (+) pole.

The antecedent of the ice axe was the alpenstock, a long wooden pole with an iron spike tip, used by shepherds for travel on snowfields and glaciers in the Alps since the Middle Ages.

However, the spire attached to the top of Q1 exceeds the Eureka Tower in the other two categories, namely " Height to the tip of spire, pinnacle, antenna, mast or flag pole " – in this case, spire – and height to architectural top of the building.

In the days before turning techniques had been properly developed, skiers would use poles for hunting: one pole would be for balance / braking and the other pole would have a sharpened tip or a spear head to be used as a spear.

Another brass cylinder is placed on the tip of the pole, 6 cm long and of brass.

Short hook with a pointed tip is a pike pole ; longer hook on a San Francisco hook ; two offset hooks on either side of tip is a universal hook ; long p-shaped hook is a Boston rake for pulling plaster and lath ; short hook with claw on opposite side of tip is either a gypsum hook or the narrower ceiling hook ; pike pole with a short handle is a somewhat useless closet hook.

In deep cover, the lure or bait can be presented by placing the tip of the fishing pole into the water.

The generators are vertical shaft, salient pole, air cooled units each having 12 electromagnetic poles weighing 10 tonnes each, producing a terminal voltage of 18kV, synchronous speed is 500rpm.

* Sheaf toss: A bundle of straw ( the sheaf ) weighing 20 pounds ( 9 kg ) for the men and 10 pounds ( 4. 5 kg ) for the women and wrapped in a burlap bag is tossed vertically with a pitchfork over a raised bar much like that used in pole vaulting.

The stilts were made from red gum telephone pole segments and Roy walked the necessary 40 paces with each stilt weighing 35 kg per stilt.

Apps was a strong athlete, 6 feet tall, weighing 185 pounds, and won the gold medal at the 1934 British Empire Games in the pole vault competition.

The nest is round, about 150 mm in diameter with vertical sides and is usually placed on a flat branch somewhere near water or on a horizontal beam of a telephone pole.

Although he played football as a child, Brown was undersized for the game at less than 150 pounds and at first focused his athletic energies on the pole vault.

At around 150 BC, this star was two degrees away from the southern celestial pole.

Mario Andretti returned home as the newly-crowned World Champion and put his Lotus 79 on the pole before a record crowd of over 150, 000 fans, but Ferrari's Carlos Reutemann completed a sweep of the two United States races in 1978 by finishing 19 seconds ahead of Australian Alan Jones.

He was awarded the Hubbard Medal of the National Geographic Society for breaking the trail through the frozen Arctic Sea to within 150 miles of the pole, yet was excluded from the final exploring party ( possibly due to a rivalry between the two men ).

In 1962, he was the first driver to qualify over 150 mph at the Indianapolis 500, winning the pole position at a speed of.

On May 28, 2011, a special cheering section for Hernández, dubbed the " King's Court ", debuted in Section 150 on the foul territory side of the left field foul pole.