Here the owner or purchaser points out which of them he wishes to have caught, on which some of the Csikoses go with long ropes having nooses at the end, among the horses, and endeavour to fling the nooses over their heads.
In the morning the people were surprised to find the meat gone, and their nooses all drawn out.
Deadfalls were used to catch wolves, foxes, and other fur animals, and small apertures in the pis'kun walls were provided with nooses and snares for the same purpose.
The spring is thus held in the position seen in the drawing, and the loose ends of the sucker wire should then be passed downward through the small holes and arranged in nooses at both openings of the box.
A few silk nooses hung about the flowers where the birds are seen to frequent, will sometimes succeed in ensnaring their tiny forms.
This consists of a series of nooses fastened to a strong twine or wire.
Horse-hair nooses are commonly used in nearly all snares as they are always to be had, and possess considerable strength.
The further arrangement of bait stick and noosesis exactly identical with that described on page (57).
Fifteen or twenty of these nooses should be made, after which they should be fastened either to a stout string or wire, at distances of about four inches from each other, as seen in our illustration.
The ground around thenooses should then be sprinkled with corn, oats, and the like, and the trap is set.
Whereas the ground nooses as frequently lift their prey into the air by their feet, and thus prolong their suffering.
A low hedge is constructed, often hundreds of feet in length small openings are left here and there, in which the nooses are placed, as in the accompanying engraving.
The writer's experience with the hedge nooses has been very satisfactory, although never using a length greater than ten feet.
Each end of the long string supporting the nooses should then be fastened to a wooden peg.
It should be firmly secured; several nooses are next to be attached to the drawstring, and the trap set as already directed.
But when once mastered by practice, the twisting of five nooses a minute will be an easy matter.
The nooses should be arranged around the bait so as to touch or overlap each other, and the bait stick introduced into the hole a little more firmly than when set with one noose.
The nooseswere adjusted, the caps drawn over their heads, the signal given.
Cords with running nooses are first put on the two hind feet.
Ropes with running nooses are placed on the presenting feet and the oiled hand introduced to find the head.
The two forefeet must be fixed with running nooses and dragged on moderately while the oiled hand seeks to bring up the head.
At the rear ends of the nooses is a long thong of the heaviest sealskin of variable length depending on the position or place the dog is to have in the team.
The deer saw the snares and some of the animals fell into the nooses and were caught.
The Indians prepared a number of snare nooses and went to the valley to set them among the bushes on the path.
They become immeshed in the nooses and are held until their throats are cut or they are choked by the cord.
Finally, arrange the nooses in such a manner that if either of them or the crutched stick is touched the latter falls, and releasing the crosspiece, the spring-stick flies up, and the bird with it.
Oh, he was no fool, Tip wasn't, and I told the Old Man we'd have to put nooseson him and cut off his wind.
Sometimes in hard places you have to throw your nooses around the shaft as a cowboy casts a rope.
When we have to rope a lion down to doctor him," said Smith, "we drop nooses through the top bars and catch his four legs, and let down one around his body.
The knots on both nooseshad slipped around to the front, immediately beneath the chin, and had cut somewhat into the flesh of both men.
With nooses about their necks, the other ends of the ropes being fastened to the projecting ends of the timbers (notches being cut to prevent any slipping), the men stood.
To thesenooses many allusions are made in the Scriptures.
Sometimes a great number of hair-nooses are set in places to which the birds are decoyed, so that in hopping about many of them are sure to become entangled in the snares.
Some of the deer may escape, but some will usually run their heads into the nooses and fall victims to the spears of the watchers.
Dependent from the whole length of the rattan rope is a series of running nooses also of rattan, each of which, overlapping its neighbours on both sides, forms a loop about two feet in diameter.
Having already provided himself with a long rope, he adroitly nooses it around the ankle; and, taking the other end in his hand, he now appears from under the skin, and shows himself to his astonished captive.
The Scotch visitors were admitted two at a time, and as they entered the nooses were thrown over their heads, and they drawn up and hanged.
Halters with running nooses had been prepared, and hung upon the beams which supported the roof.
They also occasionally capture black-buck (antelope) by sending a tame buck with nooses on his horns to fight with a wild one.
The circle of nooses [53] is a series of rattan nooses placed around a decoy cock.
Gambrino contrived three large nooses from this rope, which he elevated horizontally, on bamboo poles, to the height of his window, and carried the drawing ends of the nooses inside the hut.
Night approached; confident in our nooses we left the place, proposing to return next morning and complete the capture--but we reckoned without our host.
With great precaution we succeeded in passing one of our nooses round the boa's neck; then we tied him tightly to a tree, in such a manner as to keep its head at its usual height--about six feet from the ground.
The nooseswere strong, and withstood his most furious efforts.
To carry out my design, we manufactured nooses of cane, strong enough to resist the most powerful wild buffalo.
Nooses were made at the ends of long lines which were securely anchored; the nooses were then hung in the bushes in such a way as to overhang the trail at the proper height.
These nooses of Varuna, with which thou hast been bound, will loosen Time's course in consequence of the misconduct of men.
To carry my design into execution we manufactured nooses of cane, strong enough to resist the efforts of the most powerful wild buffalo.
With great precaution we succeeded in passing one of our nooses round the boa's neck; then we tied him tightly to a tree, in such a manner as to keep his head at its usual height--about six feet from the ground.
The nooses were strong, and withstood his almost furious efforts.
So that day he went out and made about thirty traps, of sticks with nooses attached, to snare jungle-fowl.
Duling had on his back a basket holding a decoy cock, together with the snares of running-nooses and all the parts of the trap.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nooses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
