`` Now '', said Arlene, eventually, making them both sit in formation on a big root of a live oak, the sort of root that divided itself and made their bottoms sag down and feel comfortable.

Alternatively, domino sets have been made from many different natural materials: stone ( e. g., marble, granite or soapstone ); other hardwoods ( e. g., ash, oak, redwood and cedar ); metals ( e. g., brass or pewter ); ceramic clay, or even frosted glass or crystal.

The oak in the song's title refers to the wood from which British warships were traditionally made in the age of sail.

Hammers are usually made of wood ( most likely hard woods such as maple, cherry, padauk, oak, walnut, or any other hard wood ), but can also be made from any material, including metal and plastic.

The clock still operates and like his previous clocks has a wooden movement, made of oak and lignum vitae.

Between 1725 and 1728 John and his brother James, also a skilled joiner, made at least three precision pendulum-clocks, again with oak and lignum vitae movements and longcase.

Longships were sea vessels made and used by the Vikings from the Nordic countries for trade, commerce, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age although scientific analysis of the oak timber shows at least one well known ship was built in Dublin, Ireland.

Generally large and prestigious ships were made from oak.

( Trent ) The kerling was made of oak, and about 700 mm wide and up to 6 m long in the larger ships.

A typical exterior wooden Door might be made out of two layers of oak planks.

Both the curved and traditional South American variations are also very popular in Peruvian traditional groups and other it is also made from oak trees in admen Andean music.

Uaithne, also known as " the Four Angled Music ", was a richly ornamented magic harp made of oak which, when the Dagda played it, put the seasons in their correct order ; other accounts tell of it being used to command the order of battle.

It is very dark brown in color, and its flavor is rich, sweet, and complex, with the finest grades being the product of years of aging in a successive number of casks made of various types of wood ( including oak, mulberry, chestnut, cherry, juniper, ash, and acacia ).

Whisky is typically aged in wooden casks, made generally of charred white oak.

The reredos is made of oak and is inscribed with the Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments.

Barrels in which wines, sherry, and spirits such as brandy, Scotch whisky and Bourbon whiskey are aged are made from European and American oak.

* South African grape brandies are, by law, made almost exactly as in Cognac, using a double-distillation process in copper pot stills followed by aging in oak barrels for a minimum of three years.

Telo Martius became one of the two principal Roman dye manufacturing centres, producing the purple colour used in imperial robes, made from the local sea snail called murex, and from the acorns of the oak trees.

Traditional nunchaku are made from a strong, flexible hardwood such as oak, loquat or pasania.

The oak became a symbol of the rebellion when an oak tree on Mousehold Heath was made the centre of the rebel camp, but this " Oak of Reformation " no longer stands.

The oak wagon roof, made up of 350 panels of different designs, separated by 396 carved foliage bosses ( supposedly every one different ) and with 36 carved angels along the sides, was described by British historian Nikolaus Pevsner as " the finest 15th century carved oak wagon-roof in England ".

The USS Constitution is made of white oak, and reconstructive wood replacement comes from a special grove of Quercus alba known as the " Constitution Grove " at Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division.

My double was made with standard-weight revolver barrels ( before cutting to revolver length ), and although it compares well in other respects, it's considerably heavier than the Deerstalker, which only scales about 6-1/2 pounds.

Eisbock beer, made by removing ice from partially frozen barrels of beer, resulting in higher alcohol content.

Because of the resemblance to Damascus steel, higher-end barrels were made by Belgian and British gun makers.

The taikos are made from barrels ( as opposed to being cut from a single log ).

Automatic rifles ( such as the Browning Automatic Rifle ) were designed to be a high duty cycle arm for support of other troops, and were often made and deployed with quick change barrel assemblies to allow quick replacement of over heated barrels to allow for continued fire, and may have been operated by both the person actually firing the weapon as well as an additional crewman to assist in providing and caring for ammunition and the barrels, similar to a reduced version of a squad weapon ( above ).

Some early rifled guns were created with special barrels that had a twisted polygonal shape, in particular the Whitworth rifle was the first to be made with the intention of spinning the round for the use of as a " rifle ".

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In Napa valley and Sonoma valley, California, areas made out of tuff are routinely excavated for storage of wine barrels.

When deliveries could not be made quickly enough, additional barrels were delivered from South Africa.

In the early 1900s, Clarendon developed a number of industries, including lumber, staves and barrels, oars, and buttons made from the shells of the area's plentiful freshwater mussels.

These buckets were used to get the turpentine from the cups on the trees, large barrels made of staves were brought, the turpentine was put in them for shipping.

A cooper shop on the Wadleigh Farm produced barrels made entirely of wood: the staves were made of pine and hardwoods, and were bound with hoops of birch.

The barrels are all made here and their cement is transported to tide water over a horse railroad.

It made barrels from local basswood and by 1912 it employed as many as sixty men.

Tawny ports are wines, made from red grapes, that are aged in wooden barrels, exposing them to gradual oxidation and evaporation.

this beer was made with unpeated malt and aged in whisky barrels that had not contained a peated malt whisky so has a vanilla and nutty profile.

The EPCA of December 22, 1975, made it policy for the U. S. to establish a reserve up to 1 billion barrels ( 159 million m³ ) of petroleum.

Although not as highly prized, the light colour of kauri trunk wood made it also well-suited for more utilitarian furniture construction, as well as for use in the fabrication of cisterns, barrels, bridges construction material, fences, moulds for metal forges, large rollers for the textile industry, railway sleepers and braces for mines and tunnels.

Ormonde ’ s position as Captain-General made him a personage of much importance in the crisis brought about by the death of Queen Anne and, during the last years of Queen Anne, Ormonde almost certainly had Jacobite leanings and corresponded with the Jacobite Court including his cousin, Piers Butler, 3rd Viscount Galmoye, who kept barrels of gun powder at Kilkenny Castle.

The raft is made from wooden poles, rope and blue barrels.

Ikaria in the 17th century was unusual in the Archipelago in not providing any wine for export ; rather than keeping the wine made for local consumption in barrels, they continued to store it in the age-old fashion, in terracotta pithoi sunk to their rims in earth.

The initial batch of GBU-28s was built from modified 8 inch / 203 mm artillery barrels ( principally from deactivated M110 howitzers ), but later examples are purpose-built with the BLU-113 bomb body made by National Forge of Irvine, Pa.