They were attached to the end of the jib-boom and passed on opposite sides of the mast through blocks on the crosspiece to the stern of the boat, where separate cleats were provided for them.
These he filled nearly to the top with water, corked them and wedged them into grooves cut lengthwise in the baseboard at opposite sides of the cardboard ring.
Each king post was notched on opposite sides, at about thirty inches from the top.
When completed we set the frames up on opposite sides of the stream and with ropes carefully lowered their upper ends until they interlocked, the side spars of each frame resting on the cross spars of the other.
There are different species on opposite sides of the isthmus of Panama, because they were created different on the two sides.
Showing the two rows of palatal teeth onopposite sides of the jaw.
Such accumulations, observed in Great Britain and America on opposite sides of the Atlantic, imply the long-continued existence of land vegetation, and of rivers draining a former continent placed where there is now deep sea.
This complete clamp is made up of two separate clamps that grasp the cable at opposite sides of each insulator and of two half-circles of hard-drawn copper wire of 0.
In order to gain in ground elevation and thus reduce the necessary height of towers, two points 4,427 feet apart on opposite sides of the straits were selected for their location.
Alternate poles in a line should have their cross-arms bolted on opposite sides, and at corners double arms should be used.
The two pieces of pipe thus fixed on opposite sides of the top of a tower carry the two highest insulators.
For filing out the end faces of rectangular keyways, a square file with both edges safe must be used, the safe edges being on opposite sides of the file.
Obviously the cutter is set on opposite sides of the work centre, according to which side of the groove is to have the radial face.
The seeming absence of tropic effect under direct stimulation is thus not due to want of perception, but to balanced antagonistic reactions on opposite sides of the organ.
Direct stimulation, represented by thick arrow gives rise to antagonistic concavities ofopposite sides of responding hypocotyl, resulting in neutralisation.
When two are used they are arranged on opposite sides of the armature, and form what is known as the bipolar machine.
When the object passed by one team has overtaken and passed that of the other, it counts one point and the game starts over, with the objects on opposite sides of the circle.
Two opposing players, known as centres, take a position on opposite sides of the ball, within a distance of two feet of it, with the end of their clubs on the ground.
To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
Defn: Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building.
Isothermal zones, spaces on opposite sides of the equator having the same mean temperature, and bounded by corresponding isothermal lines.
Also, a form of sofa with seats for two persons, so arranged that the occupants are face to face while sitting on opposite sides.
In this case there will be two strong pulls on opposite sides of the orbits, and, as these pulls are not the same, the total effect will be less than if there were only one pull in one direction.
Both of these rivers rise in high mountains on the coast-range, at about 10° north latitude, but on opposite sides of the continent.
My impression is, after hearing everybody's story on the matter, that these streams enter at opposite sides of the lake, on the northern side of the equator, and are consequently very considerable feeders to it.
The doctrine of the sphericity of the earth naturally led to thought regarding its inhabitants, and another ancient germ was warmed into life--the idea of antipodes: of human beings on the earth's opposite sides.
Applied to leaves when they are flattened out in two ranks on opposite sides of a stem, 18; also applied to spray when it branches out in one plane, 19.
He went to arrange about some case in which he and Terry were counsel on opposite sides.
The species of animals which inhabit the sea on opposite sides of the isthmus of Panama are wholly distinct;[Footnote: Recent investigations tend to show that this statement is not strictly accurate.
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