The long trigger should have a short prong left or a nail driven in it to prevent the game from getting the bait off too easy.
Cut a forked stick, one prong one inch long, the other 6 or 8 inches long; sharpen it, run your bait on this, put the stick in the back of the hole which fastens your bait.
By degrees the inhabitants have migrated from their caves to the neck of land connecting the prong with the hill, and have built themselves houses thereon.
I got to the long prong in time to see you swept off the deck.
I looked in the direction of the long prong and saw the outline of the vessel.
Now repeat with the second wire, wrapping it around the other prong of the plug.
In the event of any accident occurring to the tubes while they are being forced down the bore-hole, such as requires them to be drawn up again out of the hole, the prong grapnel, Fig.
When hard, the whole is lifted and the prong with the plaster attached is set in position on the wheel.
The regular head of the wheel should be detachable and in its place an iron frame called a prongis fitted.
The spear used is usually made of two diverging pieces of musk-ox horn, from 4 to 5 inches apart at the extremities; between these there is a prong of bone about 3 or 4 inches shorter than the outer ones.
The head of the instrument much resembles a three-pronged fork, with the middle prong a little shorter than the others.
I handled my knife in a hurry, and made more than one hole in his skin, while he stuck a prong through my arm.
In strugglin' up he overshot me; and as he made his drive oneprong went through the calf of my leg.
Liversedge, accompanying the northern prong of his offensive, committed the 4th Battalion in an attempt to turn the enemy flank, but it met the same heavy resistance.
He prodded it so hard that not only one prong but a tiny projecting fork also went clean through the tin.
He slashed it open with a stroke of the hoof, then jabbed it with a prong of his antlers and flung it into the air.
With our dividers set to embrace the space between the point r and the point f, we sweep the arc which defines the inner face of the prong of the fork.
This arc, carried across the jewel pin D, limits the length of the opposite prong of the fork.
We can see that if the prong of the fork was extended to about the length indicated by the outline at c, the action would be as it should be.
The outer face of the prong of the fork can be drawn as a line tangent to a circle drawn from A as a center through the angle n of the jewel pin.
The function performed by the outer face of the prong of a fork is to prevent the engaged pallet from unlocking while the guard pin is opposite to the passing hollow.
As regards the length of the outer face of the prong of the fork, a good rule is to make it one and a half times the diameter of the jewel pin.
Now let us determine at what point on the inner face of the prong E' the jewel pin parts from the fork, or engages on its return.
If we give the subject a moment's consideration we will see that the length of the prong E of the lever fork is limited to such a length as will allow the jewel pin D to pass it.
There has been a good deal said as to whether the outer edge of the prong of a fork should be straight or curved.
We will extend the first prong upward, cross it and make 't' of it, using the secondprong as a flourish.
The antediluvians plowed with a forked stick, with one prong for the beam and the other for the scratcher; and the plow boy and his sleepy ox had no choice of prongs to hitch to.
Then he shot out of the mill door like a rocket, leaving his old battered plug hat and one prong of his coat tail in the hands of the enemy.
The bait should be tied on or the bait trigger may have a prong on to hold the bait.
This is only a straight stick sixteen or eighteen inches long, while the other end of the stick should have a small prong on it, a tack driven in, or something to hold the bait in position.
The long triggers should have a short prong left or a nail driven in it to prevent the game from getting the bait off too easy.
The spindle, or long trigger, is about the size of the prop, but should be sixteen or eighteen inches long with a prong cut off within two inches of the end to help hold the bait on more securely.
The silver forks are so curiously heavy, that one of the guests, in a dallying sort of way, balances a prong across his fingers, while the chasing of the castors engages the attention of a second.
This instrument consists of a handle which widens towards the end; in the center it has a prong of bone or iron, and two larger ones at the sides, made of deer antlers or musk ox horn.
Among the natives on the east and southeast of Baffin Land it has an iron prong at its point, whereas in Iglulik it has two points of unequal length, with double barbs.
Afterwards he set the prong of the whirling trident on the edge of the other and let it whirl.
The prong of the male would become the throat of the cavity thus produced, and the skin of the prong's extremity, called the foreskin would form the vagina.
Hermaphrodite, they also practice reciprocal fecundation, but the position of their organs compels them to assume a peculiar position: the prong emerges from a pore near the mouth; the vagina is above the anus.
In man and other placentaires, the forked prong is a teratological fact only encountered in incomplete double monsters.
The Polynesians, before Christianity, had the custom when standing upright, of holding their scrotum in both hands with the prong hanging between the fingers: the posture of the wild dandy.
As for the product of bull and mare, the celebrated jumart is a chimaera: comparison of the meagre prong of the bull to the massive one of the stallion is enough to convince one that such dissimilar instruments can not replace each other.
We must not judge feline exclamations from the shrillness of timbre; tortured by the male prong the she-cats howl, but they await the supreme benediction.
The penial bone diminishes the erectile capacity of the prong in stopping the development of the hollow chambers, but it assures the rigidity of the member, obtained in the other penial type by the inflow of blood which causes the swelling.
The prong of many mammifers, a real member, is held up by an interior bone, formed at the cost of the conjunctive partition which separates the two hollow chambers.
He must empty his spermatic canals: lacking females they say the stag rubs his prong on trees to provoke ejaculation.
The males have a retractile prong fixed by two ligaments to the abdomen, the female an oviduct which opens in vulva and spreads interiorly into a vast pouch, the resting place for the eggs.
Not only theprong but the sheath of rodents points backward and ends near the anus, and in front of it.
