The staff sling, also known as the stave sling, fustibalus ( Latin ), fustibale ( French ), consists of a staff ( a length of wood ) with a short sling at one end.

In 1931, work started on the 1, 700 ML Winburndale Dam project to gravity feed water through a wood stave pipe laid to the town.

Strandings also occurred in which case iceboat occupants would huddle on the surface of an ice floe beneath the upended iceboat waiting for storms to pass, sometimes breaking parts of the boat off for fire wood to stave off the cold.

Dendrochronological dating of wood samples indicate that Nore stave church was built after 1167.

The water was originally conveyed from the dam via a 2. 2 kilometre wood stave pipeline.

The wood stave pipeline was subsequently constructed from Oregon Pine ( Douglas Fir ), which was imported from Canada.

This pipeline rapidly deteriorated and in 1938 was replaced by a King Billy Pine wood stave pipeline, with the timber sourced locally.

This replacement coincided with major refurbishment of the power station building, renewal of sections of the Lower Power Scheme wood stave pipeline, replacement of the transmission lines between the power station and the Queenstown substation, and post-stressing of the Lake Margaret dam wall.

The Doctor soon realizes the trap they have fallen into, and helps to save Rose, the Queen, and Sir Robert from Father Angelo's men and the werewolf by taking shelter in the estate's library, its wood coated with oil of mistletoe wood to stave off the beast.

The Seattle Steam Company is a privately owned district heating public utility that provides steam ( generated by burning natural gas, diesel oil, and is undergoing a delayed and problematic conversion to be able to use recycled wood ) to over 175 business in downtown Seattle and on First Hill via 18 miles of steam pipeline.

The pipeline was originally built of wood slats wrapped with iron hoops.

Today, abaci are often constructed as a bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal.

They were originally made from lignum vitae, a dense wood giving rise to the term " woods " for bowls, but are now more typically made of a hard plastic composite material.

The modern sense of the term first appears sometime around the 12th century ; its popularity spread in the medieval period along with the terms isle, ylle, inis, eilean, oileán There is some confusion on what the term crannog originally referred to, the structure atop the island or the island itself The additional meanings of crannog can be variously related as " structure / piece of wood ; wooden pin ; crow's nest ; pulpit ; driver's box on a coach and vessel / box / chest " for crannóg.

Gianfranco Lotti suggests the " wood " appellation originally carried derogatory connotations because of proscriptions of all instrumental music in early Islam.

Durable sculptural processes originally used carving ( the removal of material ) and modelling ( the addition of material, as clay ), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since modernism, shifts in sculptural process led to an almost complete freedom of materials and process.

However, the props for the television series were originally made of wood, and later on of fibreglass, for easy transportation and construction on location as well as within the confines of a studio set.

Pit stoves originally burned wood or coal but are now more typically heated by natural gas with the burner recessed below the stovetop.

In 1944, he took the Lions Club white cane ( originally made of wood ) and went around the hospital blindfolded for a week.

Units which are kept on the floor are called " floor units ", " floor cabinets ", or " base cabinets " on which a kitchen worktop, originally often formica and often now made of granite, marble, tile or wood is placed.

This gave rise to the theory that nunchaku were originally developed from an Okinawan horse bit ( muge ), or that nunchaku were adapted from a wooden clapper called hyoshiki carried by the village night watch ; made of two blocks of wood joined by cord, the night watch would hit the blocks of wood together to attract people's attention and then warn them about fires and other dangers.

They originally did this during a shortage of quality wood, gluing very thin layers of quality wood over lesser-quality wood.

Accordingly, the wood originally had few uses, but was found to be excellent for making hubs for wagon wheels.

The complex was originally made of wood ( until 1507 ).

The huge, modular, wood, glass and iron structure at the top of Sydenham Hill was originally erected in Hyde Park in London to house The Great Exhibition of 1851, showcasing the products of many countries throughout the world.

The city certainly derives its name from Nemausus, which was perhaps the sacred wood in which the Celtic tribe of the Volcae Arecomici ( who of their own accord surrendered to the Romans in 121 BC ) held their assemblies ( according to Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 ), or was perhaps the local Celtic spirit guardian of the spring that originally provided all water for the settlement, as many modern sources suggest.

The name Southall derives from the Anglo-Saxon dative æt súð healum, " At the south corner ( of the land or wood )" and súð heal, " South corner " and separates it from Northolt which was originally norþ heal, " North corner " which through a later association with Anglo-Saxon holt, " Wood, copse " developed into Northolt.

The village was originally located on the north shore of Six Mile Lake, but was moved to the present location in 1940, due to the depletion of wood and the growth of mud flats.

Madbury was originally a part of Dover called Barbadoes, after the West Indies island of Barbados with which settlers conducted trade, sending wood and lumber in exchange for sugar, molasses and other commodities.

Jigsaw puzzles were originally created by painting a picture on a flat, rectangular piece of wood, and then cutting that picture into small pieces with a jigsaw, hence the name.

Rigid ladders were originally made of wood, but in the 20th century tubular aluminium became more common because of its lighter weight.

The settlement was originally called Stavelegh, which derives from the Old English staef leah, meaning " wood where the staves are got ".

The spool was originally made of wood with metal flanges, later all metal, and finally plastic.

The first of these groups was formed in a wood outside Milan by three noble Milanese, Alexander Grivelli, Antonio Petrasancta, and Albert Besuzzi, who were joined by others, including some priests.

The back or the shell is assembled from thin strips of hardwood ( maple, cherry, ebony, rosewood, gran, wood and / or other tonewoods ) called ribs, joined ( with glue ) edge to edge to form a deep rounded body for the instrument.

Viols were first constructed much like the vihuela de mano, with all surfaces, top, back, and sides made from flat slabs or pieces of joined wood, bent or curved as required.

Two flat blocks of wood each pierced with three small holes are joined with three parallel strings.

Jones joined the guild and learned wood and copper engraving as well as experimenting with wood carving.

While every culture in which pieces of wood are joined together to make furniture or structures has a joinery tradition, wood joinery techniques have been especially well documented and celebrated in the Chinese, European, and Japanese traditions.

He made his first guitar from a block of wood, a cherry red Strat copy, and joined an existing skiffle band called the Detours in need of a lead singer.

It was executed by Jōchō, who used a new canon of proportions and a new technique, yosegi, in which multiple pieces of wood are carved out like shells and joined from the inside.

The basic elements of a bow are a pair of curved elastic limbs, traditionally made from wood, joined by a riser.

The branches are wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, where they are joined by a heavy dowel of wood, or rod of metal.

The construction features 11 pieces of wood joined by 12 mortise and tenons and two large finger joints.

Because of this, Wilhelm Bauer, after an apprenticeship as a wood turner, joined the military as well.

the trade union of wood and plastics joined IGM.

It is often made of multiple pieces, joined with animal glue in V-splices, so the wood must accept glue well.

By mid-August, a number of species are no longer in flower, but paintbrush continues to bloom, and has been joined Canadian goldenrod and showy wood aster.

It is a small round drum where one side of the circular wood is covered by the skin of a goat and is joined with thirty two small bamboo pencil-like pieces.

Even though Scandinavians joined the European Bronze Age cultures fairly late through trade, Scandinavian sites present rich and well-preserved objects made of wool, wood and imported Central European bronze and gold.

They are also used to align pieces of wood when joined edge-to-edge in making wider panels.

The leg panels are wood-grained boards finished with a timber foot and joined by a horizontal wood grained panel.

In 1846, he joined William Barritt in a wood engraving business that became one of the largest of such firms in New York.

The line was built as a ( Indian gauge ) railway, with rails consisting of pine logs ( squared off ) which were joined by iron splice plates and bolts laid across wood cross-ties.