The ships would have been very small by modern standards, too shallow in draught and sailing too low in the water to be able to withstand the heavy waves and winds of the open Atlantic, and suited for use only in the relatively shallow waters of the continental shelf.

Below Peterborough, boats are restricted by the size of Dog in a Doublet lock, which is with draught, while below Wisbech, small ships can be accommodated.

The diversion of the Afon Glaslyn caused it to scour out a new natural harbour which had a deep enough draught for small ocean-going sailing ships, and the first public wharves were built in 1825.

A cellar is intended to remain at a constant cool ( not freezing ) temperature all year round and usually has either a small window / opening or some form of air ventilation ( air / draught bricks, etc.

It was observed that the motions at this draught were very small and Blue Water Drilling and Shell jointly decided that the rig could be operated in the floating mode.

At a point about half-way through, where the tunnel passed near the vertical face of the rock a hold was cut through to secure draught for the fire in an iron brazier which installed in a small chamber opening into the tunnel when the fire was kindled the current of air from the hole would waft the smoke up the tunnel and render its passage impossible.

The maximum draught supported by the harbor is, more than ample for ancient ships and modern small vessels.

The profile has therefore been that of a markedly elongated hull with a ratio of breadth to length at the waterline of at least 1: 5, and in the case of ancient Mediterranean galleys as much as 1: 10 with a small draught, the measurement of how much of a ship's structure that is submerged under water.

This allows the small carbon atoms to enter the interstices of the crystal, diffusing into the iron matrix.

This inhibition of MAO-A allows DMT to diffuse unmetabolized past the membranes in the stomach and small intestine, and eventually cross the blood – brain barrier ( which, by itself, requires no MAO-A inhibition ) to activate receptor sites in the brain.

These pores cross both of the membranes, providing a channel that allows free movement of small molecules and ions.

The large number of combinations available from a small number of keys allows text or commands to be entered with one hand, leaving the other hand free.

Note that the number of points used in braille computing is not 6, but 8, as this allows the user, among other things, to distinguish between small and capital letters, as well as identify the position of the cursor.

However, since no expensive tooling is needed, this production method allows small production runs without high costs.

A widely used modern instrument is the differential scanning calorimeter, a device which allows thermal data to be obtained on small amounts of material.

The more famous ones include the " bamboo-copter " ( very similar to the ones that appears on the older series of Beany and Cecil ), a small head accessory that allows flight ; the " Anywhere Door ", a door that opens up to any place the user wishes ; and the " Time Machine ".

The development of the Paul trap and Penning trap allows charged particles to be contained within a small region for long durations.

This sensitivity allows them to locate small rodent prey ; cats themselves do not apparently produce such sounds.

The snap count allows offensive players to have a small head start.

The centrifugal acceleration allows a researcher to obtain large ( prototype-scale ) stresses in small physical models.

The alkali metal ions are small and mobile ; their presence in glass allows a degree of electrical conductivity, especially in molten state or at high temperature.

A small color table may suffice for small images, and keeping the color table small allows the file to be downloaded faster.

This temporary measure ( anaerobic metabolism ) allows small amounts of energy to be released.

This allows determining the exact history of every document ( and even small parts of documents ).

Semi-automatic rifles and rifles with SAAMI minimum chamber dimensions often require a special small base resizing die, that sizes further down the case than normal dies, and allows for more reliable feeding.

Diesel engines take in air only, and shortly before peak compression, spray a small quantity of diesel fuel into the cylinder via a fuel injector that allows the fuel to instantly ignite.

hydrophobic or amphiphilic small molecules ; the amphiphilic nature of some lipids allows them to form structures such as vesicles, liposomes, or membranes in an aqueous environment.

The transcervical approach, a less invasive procedure, allows for removal of the entire thymus gland through a small neck incision.

Polyploids also have more genetic diversity, which allows them to avoid inbreeding depression in small populations.

This methods allows for point mutation, or deletion or insertion of small stretches of DNA to be introduced at specific sites.

IPC allows the operating system to be built from a number of small programs called servers, which are used by other programs on the system, invoked via IPC.

Runners gather earlier at the beginning of the itinerary to ask for the protection of the Saint by singing a chant three times before a small statue of San Fermin which has been placed in a raised niche in a wall.

Meanwhile, Cannes, St. Tropez, Marbella, Portofino, and selected small towns on the French and Italian Riviera were on the jet set itinerary, as well as Capri.

Writing for The Times Literary Supplement, Xan Fielding found the title of the book to be misleading, noting that apart from a very small win at the casinos of Las Vegas, " his personal experience of thrills seems to have been just as limited everywhere else on his itinerary.

After the Easter liturgical celebrations, the most important place is given to the Eucharist, which completes Christian initiation and builds a small community in which catechumens follow their " itinerary.

These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids.

Green pearls have a small hint of green tea flavor, and are chewier than the traditional tapioca balls.

Most traditional pharmaceutical drugs are relatively small molecules that bind to particular molecular targets and either activate or deactivate biological processes.

Instead of the traditional adaptative foreign policy of the small country, Denmark is today pursuing an active foreign policy, where human rights, democracy and other crucial values is to be defended actively.

They also contain a small proportion of heavier elements, and this fraction is referred to as a star's metallicity ( even if the elements are not metals in the traditional sense, such as iron ).

flamenco singing is not, strictly speaking, improvised, but based on a relatively small number of traditional songs, singers add variations on the spur of the moment.

This view was elaborated in traditional Jain cosmology and Buddhist cosmology, which depicts the cosmos as a vast, flat oceanic disk ( of the magnitude of a small planetary system ), bounded by mountains, in which the continents are set as small islands.

In Colombia, the traditional quartet includes a range of instruments too, from the small bandola ( sometimes known as the Deleuze-Guattari, for use when traveling or in confined rooms or spaces ), to the slightly larger tiple, to the full sized classical guitar.

A small traditional geocache in the Czech Republic.

Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants including, but not limited to, armed civilians ( or " irregulars ") use military tactics, such as ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, the element of surprise, and extraordinary mobility to harass a larger and less-mobile traditional army, or strike a vulnerable target, and withdraw almost immediately.

The traditional gas mask style with two small circular eye windows originated when the only suitable material for these eye windows was glass or acrylic ; as glass is notoriously brittle, glass eye windows had to be kept small and thick.

Hundreds of small manufacturing firms, the traditional backbone of Honduran enterprise, began to go out of business beginning in the early 1990s, as import costs rose and competition through increasing wages for skilled labor from the mostly Asian-owned assembly industries strengthened.

The folk harp or Celtic harp is small to medium-sized and usually designed for traditional music ; it can be played solo or with small groups.

For shapes that are smooth, or shapes with a small number of corners, the shapes of traditional geometry and science, the Hausdorff dimension is an integer.

Following the collapse of the Ur-III dynasty at the hands of the Elamites ( 2002 BC traditional, 1940 BC short ), the Amorites gained control over most of Mesopotamia, where they formed a series of small kingdoms.

Over the last two thousand years, the various streams of Jews have resulted in small variations in the traditional liturgy customs among different Jewish communities, with each community having a slightly different Nusach ( customary liturgy ).

Most refer to the same small set of topics, and do so using a relatively small set of traditional metaphors.

The game is also played extensively in the small town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders, mainly in the local primary school playground, where it is favored to more traditional childhood past-times such as ' British bulldogs ' and ' Kiss, Cuddle and Torture '.

Modern instruments with 15 or fewer strings are generally more closely modeled on traditional shapes, and form a category of instrument known as small kantele, in contrast to the modern concert kantele.

Mies found their unit sizes too small for him, choosing instead to continue living in a spacious traditional luxury apartment a few blocks away.

For very large ( and very small ) numbers, traditional systems have been superseded by the use of scientific notation and the system of SI prefixes.