Mr. Dorsett's shifty eyes take another look at Ballard, and then he hitches uneasy in his chair.
He crosses his legs andhitches up his chair confidential.
How to Make a Horse-Hair Watch-Guard The same hitches are used in the manufacture of horse-hair watch-guards, much in vogue with the boys in some sections of the country.
Those three or four well-thrown hitches she had to start with were too much of a handicap.
The other end is brought over the handle and down through the vertical hole and made fast with two half-hitches into a hole through the septum of the nose of the head at one end of the bag.
Through the larger end is drilled a small hole, the ends of which are joined by a shallow groove running over the end, into which the ends of the strings are fastened by three half-hitches each.
This seizing and the hitches already mentioned served to incorporate the backing very thoroughly with the bow, thus equalizing the strain and preventing the bow from cracking.
Now--as all modern playgoers know--there are never any hitches or delays on first nights.
But in my time, hitches on first nights were the rule rather than the exception, and when a scene was got through without any special mishap, we felt we were entitled to shake hands with one another.
A seaman oftenhitches up his trowsers, which "have no lifts or braces.
The passing of small stuff across a seizing, with marline hitches at the outer turns; or the winding small ropes spirally round a large one, the former lying in the intervals between the strands of the latter.
Above the swathing of bark a strong line is made fast; the padded end is fitted into the socket, the line is made taut along the whole length of the haft, and secured by three or four half hitches about a foot from the thin end.
Illustration] Great firmness may be imparted to any of these arrangements by placing a small pole inside, and securing every plank to it by successive hitches of a smaller line, as in Fig.
In rough stormy weather, it is sometimes necessary to back your pegs; this is done by driving in an additional one in a line with the first, and then forming a couple of half hitches with the tent rope over its head.
Knots in dog harness tend to endless hitches and entanglements; and buckles, from being composed of metal, would be stolen to a certainty.
One of the hitches had been thrown, and the other burros stood expectantly waiting to be relieved of their burdens.
Bill, as he began throwing the hitches off the tired burros that stood panting outside the door.
Having done this, keep the hitches together with the right hand, and with the left take a and dip it under b and pull c through a and b.
For this purpose various hitches are employed by packers, each hitch well adapted to the particular conditions which evolved it.
He hitches his own mount to a strong sapling and leads the other to the river bank.
He was backing the hawser out of the last of its half-hitches when a carriage was driven rapidly down to the stage and two tardy passengers hurried aboard.
One of them fell clumsily, tried to rise, and sank back into the shadow; but the other scrambled up the steep bank and loosened the half-hitches in the wet hawser.
The point of the lance entered just between the fin and the eye, but higher up, missing the broad plate of the shoulder-blade, and sinking its whole four feet over the hitches right down into the animal's vitals.
To pass small stuff across a seizing, with marling hitches at the outer turns.
Long lines are sometimes bent together with half-hitches on their own standing parts, instead of bowlines, and the ends seized strongly down.
Splice a small eye in the end of the ratlin, and seize it with yarns to the after shroud on the starboard side and to the forward on the larboard, so that the hitches may go with the sun.
If everything is to be stowed away, unreeve the tack and halyards, and coil them away separately in the top; also coil away the sheets and downhaul, and stop all the coils down by hitches passed through the slats of the top.
A bend, sometimes called a rolling hitch, is made by two round-turns round a spar and two half-hitches round the standing part; but the name is commonly applied to the former hitch.
When he estimated about fifty feet had run through, he put on more figure eights around the cleat, then dropped half hitches over to secure the line.
He unloosed the half hitches that held it to the cleat, threw off all but one figure-eight turn, and let the anchor line run out slowly.
This kind of evener hitchesthe horses closer to the load than some others and they are easier to handle than the spread out kinds.
Sheepshank, two halfhitches in a rope to take up slack.
The great weight of these joined timbers is sustained by stout beams placed at intervals, which are deeply set into hitches in the footwall and hangingwall, but are inclined.
Here is the way a manufacturer of stock food hitches his argument onto a bit of news: "No doubt you have read in your farm paper about the Poland China that took first prize at the Iowa State Fair last week.
The farmer has more time to think over a proposition--as he milks orhitches up, as he plows or drives to town, there is opportunity to turn a plan over and over in his mind.
Finish off with a smooth tapered head, two or three half hitches {24} and a couple of coats of good head lacquer, Fig.
Finish with two or three half hitchesand a drop of head lacquer, Fig.
It's thirty-five feet from where she hitches on t' the balloon to where you sit on the bar.
When Lawlor changed his stirrup hitches or moved from side to side the old beams would groan under us, and the whole structure rock.
It consists, first, of three half-hitches overlapping each other as in Fig.
They started to work in good earnest, the landsman drawing his long ends carefully through the loops, while the sailor rapidly slipped small half-hitches over his thumb as in Fig.
But in addition it will be desirable to understand other hitches adapted to different exigencies of bulky top packs, knobby kyacks and the like.
Fasten the middle of your rope by means of two half hitches to the front of the pack saddle (Fig.
The hitches described are all I have ever had occasion to use, and will probably carry you through any emergencies that may be likely to arise.
That is long enough for the diamond hitch and for other hitches with a very small top pack, but it will not do for many valuablehitches on a bulky pack.
It can be made interesting by an attempt to follow out in actual practice the hitches described.
The rope in all other hitches binds against the bottom of the kyacks; but in this it should pass between the kyack and the horse's side (Fig.
All hitches possess one thing in common--the rope passes around the horse and through the cinch hook.
If everything went well, he could do it, but there must be nohitches in the programme.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hitches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
