If a few good broad shingles can be found, the work is even much easier,--mere splitting and notching being then all that is necessary.
Next lay two more long logs, parallel with the first two, and about a foot inside them, notching as before.
Defn: An ornament produced by notching or carving a rounded molding.
Hoop lock, the fastening for uniting the ends of wooden hoops by notching and interlocking them.
Then lay on the top crust, notching it handsomely.
Lay the sweetmeat on one half of the paste, fold the other over it in the form of a half-moon, and unite the edges by notching them together.
Pour in, at the last, the gravy you have drawn from the trimmings, and put on the lid of the pie, notching the edge handsomely, and ornamenting the centre with a flower made of paste.
Without saying what I meant to do with it I had begged a square of white cambric from Mam' Chloe, and set about notching it with a pair of blunt scissors.
The notching took a tedious time, and the bows of the blunt scissors left purple furrows upon thumb and fingers.
By notching their sides the Malays make wonderfully light scaling-ladders, which can be conveyed with facility where heavier machines could not be transported.
Cut a forked stick about 12 inches long for the bait stick, notching one end and tapering the other as shown in Fig.
Lay a short log first, then a long one, notching each corner as you go so the logs will fit closely together.
Then I drew my hatchet and notched a tree so that he saw what I did; he nodded comprehension; we went on, notching trees at intervals, and so ascended the slope ahead until we arrived at the top.
An ornament produced bynotching or carving a rounded molding.
As the outwale is approached, the bark is cut away at the notching in each so that the outwales can be brought snugly against the sides of the stem-piece.
It is probable that the group lashings were let into the gunwales by shallow notching at each group, a common Indian practice when no rail cap was used, to prevent abrasion from the paddle or from loading and unloading the canoe.
The idea of beautifying ornaments made from the Haliotis and other shells by notching the edges may have been suggested by the natural notches characteristic of the Cypreas.
Occasionally, limited retouch was employed to broaden the notches after the main notching flake had been struck.
The hafting area consists of an expanded stem formed by notching into the blade about one-third of the way from the base to the distal end.
Expanded stems are present as a result of shallow side notchingon the hafting area.
Notching and beveling seems to reach a climax on larger points in the early Archaic period.
Side notching and beveling of the blade apparently started in this period.
He leaned his pick and shovel against the wagon, took his ax out of the tool box and began notching logs.
Joe, Ellis and Jim Snedeker, werenotching the logs that Joe and Ellis had cut and brought in.
The illustrations at page 663 will serve to show the arrangement when put together and the mode of notching the separate portions.
This one is six-sided and may be improved by notching the logs (Figs.
On this log one may sketch, with chalk, the various figures here represented, then begin by notching the log (Fig.
Notching Logs To make the logs hold together at the corners of our cabins it is necessary to lock them in some manner, and the usual way is to notch them.
Great care must be used in notching and joining the logs, and only the straightest logs which can be had should be used for the walls of the house.
He was passing on when his eyes suddenly fell upon Captain Ready, who was standing a little on one side, notching away at his tenth or twelfth stick, and at that moment happened to look up.
You may fancy that it would have been easy enough to get at the length, by just placing the stick parallel to the cask, and notching it square with the ends of the latter?
You may imagine that this might have been obtained by simply planting the stick in a vertical position outside the butt, and notching it at a point on a level with the top of the vessel.
I propped myself with pieces of cloth, so that I might work more conveniently, and after groping out one of the divisions of the lid, I commenced notching it crossways.
As far as the further metamorphosis of the nucleus is concerned, a sharp notching of the border of the nucleus may occasionally be found, the further fate of which is shewn in the accompanying figure (Fig.
By the notching of their margins they appear to eyes practised in the judgment of morphological conditions, in a stage almost of dissolution, and as well-pronounced degeneration forms.
By noon the piles had assumed such proportions that after luncheon half of the wood-cutters were called off and set to notching the ends of the log, about eight inches from the end, and this was work in which everybody could take part.
The old man stood amid a group of boys who were notching the logs.
By notching their sides the Malays make wonderfully light scaling ladders, which can be conveyed with facility, where heavier machines could not be transported.
The rapids were incidents; the gorge we had always with us, superb cleft that it was, hewn as by some giant axe, notching the mountain chain imperiously for passage.
Clearly its life was as engrossing to it as if no wall of hills notching the sky shut out the world beyond.
The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.
Although both these cases recovered, I think notching and superficial grooving must be considered much more serious injuries than pure perforation.
I saw every degree of injury to the trunks, from notching to complete solution of continuity, and in some cases destruction and disappearance of pieces from one to two or more inches in length.
Notching or grooving is naturally much more common in the cancellous portions of bones.
Cover it with a lid of paste, notching the edges handsomely, and cutting a cross-slit on the top.
Then cover the pie with a rather thick lid or upper crust, uniting the two edges at the rim, by crimping or notching them neatly.
Set a very clean sieve upon a large bowl, and cut the oranges over it; first halving them, and then notching each half to let out as much juice as possible when squeezing them.
Then paste white paper over the top, and a little way down the sides of the glass, notching it round with scissors to make it fit the better.
Then roll it thin, and cut it into square cakes, notching the edges with a knife.
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