Then he went to his own cabin, and drawing his pocket knife, set to work cutting another notch in the table.
Here he was surprised to see the latter cutting a notch on the side of the highly polished small table in the center of the cabin.
I'm following along the same lines, only I intend to cut a notch on this table every time we sink one of the enemy.
Well," said Jack, "in reading some of your American literature, I learned that every time one of your wild westerners killed a man he cut a notch on his gun.
This is done by cutting a notch on each side of the reed, near the end that is cut square, to which two strands of a match, two and a half inches long, are tied with a fibre of hemp.
In size they resemble our Sparrows; their beak is always conical, and the upper mandible furnished with a kind of notch near its extremity, which terminates in a slight hook.
A curved incision is made through the eyebrow down to the bone along the inner third of the supra-orbital ridge, reaching from the supra-orbital notch to opposite the inner canthus.
It is pulled forward into a notch in the trigger, by means of a spring B, upon the front of the guard, which is worked by a key C, pressing upon the spring when the piece is discharged.
As one end of the levers must be depressed at each dip, the square piece of wood is thrown out of the notch by the workman pressing down the handle D, which communicates with the small lever e, inserted into a groove in the bar B.
The grinder sits on the ground, having before him a bamboo stake, which is driven into the earth, with a deep notch formed in its upper end.
This is a piece of steel having a notch in it; the inside lines of which are very straight, and inclined to one another at a very acute angle.
It consists of a plane surface made of slabs or planks, very slightly inclined forwards, and provided behind and on the sides with upright ledges, the back one having a notch to admit a stream of water.
The round hole in the centre, with the little notch at top, serves for spitting them upon a feathered rod, in order to be filled with thread by the rotation of that rod in a species of reel, called the bobbin-filling machine.
The top of the dam-stone, or rather the notch of the dam-plate, lies from 4 to 8 inches under the level of the tuyere hole.
One of the extremities of the timber hurled into the air by the waves had stuck fast into this notch in falling.
Between the projecting rock and the interior wall of the defile there was a large interval, something like the notch of an axe, or the split of a wedge.
When the boatman finds that the boat steers steadily, he simply drops the tiller, which forthwith falls into the notch below it, where it is held tight until the steersman cares to take the tiller into his hand again.
Notch it deeply at A, where it is to receive the trigger; notch it also at B, half an inch from A; and at C, 5 inches or so from B.
The notch or sliced bark of a tree is called a "blaze" in bush language.
A man usually fills the notch for which he is fitted: I was about to say--I will say that he fits himself to the notch which he does fill.
No; but he was original, he borrowed from no one, he did his best, he fits the notch in which he is placed.
He jerked his chin toward a notch in the hills, halfway between the head of Apache Canyon and the head of Redgate.
From the tail of his eye, as Twilight thundered across the valley, Johnny was aware of a deep gashed canyon heading in the north, of a notch in the western rim of the saucer-shaped basin, and a dark pass at the left.
Noon of the next day found Johnny nearing Moongate Pass, a deep notch in the San Andreas Mountains; a smooth semicircle exactly filled and fitted by the rising moon, when full and seen from Engle.
Coniston Mountain, called by some the Blue Mountain, clad in Hercynian forests, ten good miles in length, north and south, with its notchroad that winds over the saddle behind the withers of it.
If Jethro had indeed instructed Bijah to look after his flock at Coniston, it was an ill-conditioned move, and some of the flock resented it when they were quite sure that Bijah was climbing the notch road toward Clovelly.
There was a good stiff latch, made with a deep notch in the logs to hold that gate after it came down; and, if a bear once shut himself in, there was no possibility of his getting out.
There was a wooden catch geared through the roof of that trap so nicely, that, when the pole was in the notch of it, the trap was set to spring at any kind of pull on the bait.
It was made heavy purposely; and it was caught in the notch below, just exactly right, for the man that made that trap knew how.
Having done this, let him cut a notch out of the paper, extending through both the circles to the centre, and including a twelfth part, or thirty degrees, of each between its converging sides.
It is termed the hourly incense-stick, and is notched at equal distances, and as from notch to notch the stick takes exactly one hour to burn, it accurately marks the passing time.
When a notch is used to gauge a stream of varying flow, the ratio B/H varies if the notch is rectangular, but is constant if the notch is triangular.
In the case of a rectangularnotch or weir, h1 = 0.
Hence, if l is the length of the notch or weir, and H the head measured behind the weir where the water is nearly still, then the width of the jet passing through the notch would be l - 0.
In many cases which occur in practice the channel of approach to an orifice or notch is not so large, relatively to the stream through the orifice or notch, that the velocity in it can be disregarded.
A triangular notch is very suitable for measurements of this kind.
A notch is an orifice extending up to the free surface level in the reservoir from which the discharge takes place.
Hence a triangular notch is more suitable for accurate gaugings than a rectangular notch.
He fitted the notch of the arrow to the string and drew the bow a little as if to try it; then moving off a few yards under cover of the trees, Rob was about to follow him, but he turned back directly.
Naligas ang ákung tiil sa hakhak, My foot slipped out of the notch in the coconut tree.
Were I to turn my back upon it, I should fall down dead on the hither side of the notch which is the gateway of this mountain-region.
I am quite benumbed, for the Notch is just like the pipe of a great pair of bellows; it has blown a terrible blast in my face all the way from Bartlett.
The romantic pass of the Notch is a great artery through which the life-blood of internal commerce is continually throbbing between Maine on one side and the Green Mountains and the shores of the St. Lawrence on the other.
This family were situated in the Notch of the White Hills, where the wind was sharp throughout the year and pitilessly cold in the winter, giving their cottage all its fresh inclemency before it descended on the valley of the Saco.
Maxillae notched, with a slight secondnotch and slight double prominence in the lower part.
Chelonobia, the crest on each side of the central notch (e') is furnished with a row of finely graduated teeth.
Mouth: the labrum shows some tendency to be bullate; the notch is broad and shallow: the palpi have a thick brush of bristles on their inner sides.
Maxillae, rather broad, with a slight notch under the upper pair of spines.
Kingii, excepting that there are only three teeth on each side of the notch (which is deeper) on the labrum.
Maxillae, with scarcely even a trace of a notchunder the upper pair of spines.
The maxillae are small; there is a small notch beneath the two upper great spines, and a second notch near the inferior angle.
The maxillae are always notched under the two or three large upper spines: the notch bears some fine spines: beneath the notch there are some large spines, and at the inferior angle some smaller ones.
In the maxillae, there are some large spines above the notch, and in the notch some fine ones: in var.
Mouth: labrum with the notch wide, generally with a few little teeth; mandibles with three teeth, and some inferior knobs; maxillae notched.
The notch in it was made by the steel buckle of his stock, which was cut through.
Punctual to my appointment, I placed my foot on the first notch of the zigzag next night, as the distant clocks were striking eleven.
THE AX itself, all rusty, with A GREAT NOTCH IN THE BLADE.
Two days later, a tourist traveling through the Notch arrived at the inn, to find it uninjured, but deserted, with the exception of a half-starved dog who was whining dismally.
Uncle Dick has been talking with the captain of our boat about the Nahanni River, which comes down here through a notch in the mountains.
The boats crossed the full flood of the Slave River for a mile and a half, then slipped down on fast water, using the eddies beautifully, and at last dropped into the notch in a high barrier which seemed to rise up directly ahead of them.
By this time the afternoon was wearing away and before long night would be putting a dark blanket over the deep notch in the mountains.
The form of the shell is elliptic-oblong, with a contraction, or shallow notch as it were, about the middle of their outer margin.
The eye-teeth slightly enlarged at their outer edge, as in the dog, and furnished with a little notch at their base.
A narrow notch in the bowl southward lets the Uncompahgre break through to the lowlands, and furnishes us with a means of ingress; otherwise the most toilsome climbing would be the only way to get into or out of town.
