" Indeed, olive suckers sprout readily from the stump, and the great age of some existing olive trees shows that it was perfectly possible that the olive tree of the Acropolis dated to the Bronze Age.

The preferred ways are cuttings and layers ; the tree roots easily in favourable soil and throws up suckers from the stump when cut down.

When a tree stump or other obstruction such as a rock is encountered, the ploughshare is thrown upwards, clear of the obstacle, to avoid breaking the plough's harness or linkage ; ploughing can be continued when the weight is returned to the earth after the obstacle is passed.

Tom Sawyer proposes " spunk-water " ( or " stump-water ", the water collecting in the hollow of a tree stump ) as a remedy for warts on the hand.

' for indeed, it was near – only five miles from the cultural heart of Germany – ' that nation of universities ' [...]" ( p. 100 ).</ ref > The Goethe Eiche ( Goethe's Oak ) stood inside the camp's perimeter, and the stump of the tree is preserved as part of the memorial at KZ Buchenwald.

By 1892, however, rot had set in, and the tree was torn down to its ( large and tall ) " stump ".

When they came to the mouth of the river, they came upon the charred remains of the village of the Qualicum people and the mutilated bodies of its inhabitants, with only one survivor, an elderly woman, hiding terrified inside a tree stump.

He then wraps it around Ben's body but is crushed by a large tree stump floating down the river.

The felled tree or logs are moved from the stump to the landing.

Finally he returns for the last time to sit and rest on the stump of the tree — all that's left of it.

Crater Lake is known for the " Old Man of the Lake ", a full-sized tree which is now a stump that has been bobbing vertically in the lake for more than a century.

Now private, Erskine Attachments manufactures more than 40 skid steer attachments including brush mowers, snowblowers, blades, buckets, grapples, post drivers, stump grinders, tree shears, and others that fit all skid steers and some front end loaders that utilize the skid steer style quick attach mechanism.

The tree was seven feet three inches at the stump, and produced six, logs.

Wilbert Abernathy can recall seeing the stump of this large tree several years later when the Abernathy family moved to the Grant farm from Burg about 1910 or 1911.

The stump was enormous as cutters had scaled up a distance of seven or eight feet before cutting the tree.

Experimental tree felling with reconstructed: en: Adze | adzes of the: en: Linear Pottery culture | Linear Pottery culture for the analysis of stress marks on the adze blades and ghost lines on the tree stump and the timber in comparison with marks on archaeological finds

Diana ( mythology ) | Diana sculpture in the Louvre: note use of skirt, tree stump, and stag for support of body and lower arm and the pinning of the upper arm to the arrows in the quiver, forming several closed loops that are thus stronger

The game ends with a post-credits scene depicting a drawing on a tree stump of Link, Tatl, Tael, the Skull Kid, and the Four Giants.

These include backhoe, hydraulic breaker, pallet forks, angle broom, sweeper, auger, mower, snow blower, stump grinder, tree spade, trencher, dumping hopper, ripper, tillers, grapple, tilt, roller, snow blade, wheel saw, cement mixer, and wood chipper machine.

Encrypting the message " Hide the gold in the tree stump ":

The word " Stock " in the common name of this species refers not to the stock of trade, but comes from the Old English " stocc " meaning " stump, post, stake, tree trunk, log ,".

Theories about the site have focused on the idea of inversion, as represented by the upside-down central tree stump and the single post turned 180 degrees from the others within the circle itself.

On the other hand, the same lists can be used by the puzzle setter to stump their opponent by choosing a word which deliberately avoids common letters ( e. g. rhythm or zephyr ) or one that contains rare letters ( e. g. jazz ).

While replete with racist stereotypes, Barnum's shows satirized white racial attitudes, as in a stump speech in which a black phrenologist ( like all minstrel performers, a white man in blackface ) made a dialect speech parodying lectures given at the time to " prove " the superiority of the white race: " You see den, dat clebber man and dam rascal means de same in Dutch, when dey boph white ; but when one white and de udder's black, dat's a grey hoss ob anoder color.

Intrigued, he revisited the same area on a number of other occasions, coming across a lone tree stump that had been unearthed on the beach, which he felt was unusual in that appeared to be upside down.

The aerodynamic features of the Sierra were developed from those first seen in the Escort Mark III — the " Aeroback " bootlid stump was proved to reduce the drag coefficient of the bodyshell significantly, which was a class leading Cd0. 34 at its launch, though not as good as the Cd0. 22 of the visually similar Ford Probe III concept car of the previous year, and also behind the contemporary third generation Audi 100 that was unveiled the same year-the first production car to get below the Cd0. 30 barrier with an impressive figure of Cd0. 28.

During the struggle for the Republican nomination in 1999, Gary Bauer used the same image and explicitly presented himself as a Reagan-devotee ; he used the phrase three times during his stump speech, and according to The New York Times simply stole them from Reagan.

* Off stump is the stump on the off side of the wicket ( the same side as the batsman's bat ).

* Leg stump is the stump on the on side of the wicket ( the same side as the batsman's legs ).

The wicket is also put down if a fielder pulls a stump out of the ground in the same manner.

In 1824, William Henry Harrison returned to Indiana to stump for the Adams Presidential candidate and Jennings and Harrison found themselves on the same side.

He was fined £ 250 in the same match for swearing at the umpire, comments which were clearly picked up by the stump microphone.

" As he could not make the ball swing in Australia in the same way it did in England, Hirst used leg theory, bowling at leg stump with fielders close by on the leg side.

He was famous for getting quick and accurate answers to problems which would stump other people.

This procedure is a two to three step procedure in which the large bowel is removed, except for the rectal stump and anus, and a temporary ileostomy is made.

The bases are marked with long poles, which batters must keep in contact with and fielders must ' stump ', and only one ' good ' ball need normally be thrown before a batter must run.

The socket is custom made to fit the residual limb and to distribute the forces of the artificial limb across the area of the stump ( rather than just one small spot ), which helps reduce wear on the stump.

The stump and socket method can cause significant pain in the amputee, which is why the direct bone attachment has been explored extensively.

#* This short pub car park entry on the south side of the Bath Road is the remaining stump of Heathrow Road, which ran to Heathrow hamlet.

#* Air view: The entry in '/' direction at the east side of the Three Magpies pub is a short north end stump of Heathrow Road which ran to Heathrow hamlet.

Coppicing is a traditional method of woodland management which takes advantage of the fact that many trees make new growth from the stump or roots if cut down.

This oak was actually four huge trees which had grown from the stump left by Wallace the possum hunter.

In the middle of Athenry is the stump of a cross destroyed in the wars, on which a crucifix in bas-relief still remains.

Following beak trimming of older or adult hens, the nociceptors in the beak stump show abnormal patterns of neural discharge, which indicate acute pain.

The highlight was when one actor, typically one of the endmen, delivered a faux-black-dialect stump speech, a long oration about anything from nonsense to science, society, or politics, during which the dim-witted character tried to speak eloquently, only to deliver countless malapropisms, jokes, and unintentional puns.

The race, which was one lap around the stump of a tree, was won by Diomedes, who received a slave woman and a cauldron as his prize.

Until 1996, a main attraction in the park was a zoo, which grew out of the collection of animals begun by the first park superintendent ( aka Park Ranger, 1888 – 1896 ), Henry Avison, after he captured an orphaned black bear cub and chained it to a stump for safety.

They are oviparous, laying from seven to 37 eggs, which they often cover with soil or protect in a hollow tree stump.