The upper foremost and aftermost pieces of dead wood; being crooked pieces of timber, the bolting of which connects the keel with the stem and stern posts.
Also, the bevelling of any piece of timber or plank to any required angle: as the bearding of dead wood, clamps, &c.
They had lighted big fires of dead wood at which to warm themselves, and the, figures of the runners were illumined by the flames as they passed rapidly from the camp on the right to that on the left.
Then a thought occurred rather to his stomach than to his mind--the thought that one of those fowls would be good to eat if it were cooked over a fire of dead wood.
If there is a decaying portion, the spores seem to be carried by the little black beetle that infests the ostreatus, from one place to another, and wherever a small spot of dead wood is found we are likely to find the P.
Generally growing on dead wood; some species are found on trees and others on the ground, etc.
I believe the sound was made by beating upon a log or piece of dead wood.
It does not require a delicate sense of hearing to distinguish a sound made by beating the breast from that of dead wood or other similar substance.
He was only gone a few minutes when he returned with a small branch of dead wood which he had picked up on the ground.
A portion ofdead wood included in the good; and lastly, the double sap, which is an entire crown of imperfect wood.
Moreover, they had an ample supply of dead wood to make a fire, and by the time this was blazing merrily and lighting up the wall of trees and the river night had fallen intensely dark.
It's shaded from the wind, handy to the trees, so as to get plenty of dead wood, and nigh the river to fetch water.
Returning on the trail they had traced with their axes, the three men soon found themselves near a fire of dead wood, burning in the centre of a small clearing.
After this, collecting an ample stock of dead wood and ocote branches, for torches, they reentered the grotto, with the manifest intention of at last taking a little of that rest they needed so greatly.
Securing long sticks of dead woodhe ignited them both until they burned with a steady and strong flame.
Long Jim, happy in the task that he liked, hurried away in search of dead wood.
You see a lot uv dead wood layin' in the bushes not twenty feet from the door uv our manshun.
The hanging foliage assumed an emerald sheen, the hundreds of crutches covering the vault resembled an inextricable network of dead wood on the point of reflowering.
Following the bank of the torrent and gathering stray fragments of dead wood, the three maidens at last found themselves in front of the Grotto, hollowed out in a huge mass of rock which the people of the district called Massabielle.
They grow on twigs, leaves, dead wood, or on the ground.
The stem is sometimes filiform, and they grow on stumps and sticks, dead wood, twigs and leaves.
It is found on dead wood, in all forms and colors.
Nevertheless, he took precautions, building a rough floor of dead wood in the alcove, and arranging to protect himself from the downpour which he considered inevitable.
He managed to set a heap of dead wood burning in the lee of a hill, and he fed the fire for a long time, at last letting it die down into a great mass of coals that threw out heat like a furnace.
The floor of his little valley was soon covered with six inches of water and he was devoutly glad that he had built his platform of dead wood, upon which he could remain untouched by the flood, at least for the present.
There was his sheltered alcove, with the wall of dead wood in front of it, and there were two heaps of coals sending their friendly glow to him through the cold dusk.
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