The avocet; -- so called because it scoops up the mud to obtain food.
D D is the Archimedes worm, the axis of which revolves at bottom upon the gudgeon e; it possesses a three-fold spiral, and is turned in the opposite direction to that in which it scoops the water.
I suppose if you got ten scoops it would be no good," said Sarah with a laugh in which Mrs. Allen and some of the others joined.
Scoops or other measures must not be relied on in the proper blending of Teas; scales and weights must be invariably used if the dealer wants to be precise and successful in the business.
Meanwhile, Ben finds Redskin safe in the box, and he scoops him back into the lunchbox.
Kate finishes feeding the big cats, and she strides over and scoops him back into the box.
Dress and dish twelve cotelettes as before, have ready the following sauce: scoop fortyscoops of Jerusalem artichokes the size of the turnips in the last, and proceed exactly the same, using white sauce (No.
The smallest scoop ought to hold as much grain powder as will weigh about 1/12 of the star; but to have the scoops accurate, it will be necessary to charge a roman candle, fire it, and observe whether the stars go a uniform height.
The whole of the composition ought to be put in in about 12 scoops: try 2 or 3 scoops till you get one of the right size, then write upon the handle what-sized rocket it belongs to.
Profile form types: XI ranging to XII and, in one case, modified to XIII; type XIV represents thescoops with modeling.
Depth range: (a) for scoopswithout modeling, depth ranges from 2.
Additional features: None for the scoops without modeling, with the exception of one vessel which has a curved handle (see profile form type XIII) 42.
Diameter range: (a) for scoops without modeling, maximum length ranges from 10.
One pigtail scoops up a pile of copper money, another a chinaware soup-bowl, and only a little mound of accusing cowries remains on the white matting that covers the table.
He sells rice and chillies and dried fish and wooden scoops made of bamboo.
These spines serve as fences to prevent the escape of the minute creatures which the flamingo scoops up with its bill.
As soon as cold weather comes on he digs a hole in the ground, or scoops out a place under some brush, and turns in.
Now from the back wall to the top hole I place scoops made out of split logs hollowed out with axe.
Short pieces of logs are put in under the last outside scoops and every crack is mossed up tight, and a bunk placed across the end about a foot from the ground, and fire built in the center of open side.
The elevators are equipped with "legs" or long spouts, within which belts with metal scoops transfer the grain from car to vessel or vice versa.
The ore is unloaded at the docks by means of mechanical scoops and shovels.
In addition to the use of these scoops for skimming the fishing holes, and reeling up the line, as already described, they also serve as scrapers to remove snow and hoar frost from the clothing.
Sometimes the bee is contented with one or two of these excavations; at other times, when the wood is adapted to it, she scoops out three or four--a task which sometimes requires several weeks of incessant labour.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And Sammy scoops us with a single pair.
The mother hears this, and scoops away the sand under which they are buried, in order that they may have no difficulty in making their escape.
First it turns the shell upside down; then it scoops out the sand from beneath it, and smears the surface of the hollow with slime from its own body; and then it piles loose sand over the shell, so as to keep it in position.
Before digging this burrow, it mostly scoops out quite a number of half-finished ones, scraping a hole two or three feet in depth, and then leaving it and beginning on another.
And when it wants to feed it wades into the water, bends down its long neck, turns its head upside down, so that its forehead rests upon the bottom, and scoops up great mouthfuls of mud.
It is amusing to see how it drinks, for it firstscoops up a little milk in its lower jaw, just as if it were using a spoon, and then holds up its head in order that the liquid may trickle down its throat.
The bird does not make a nest, but scoops out a hollow in the sand about three feet across and a foot deep, and then arranges its eggs in it, each egg standing upright, and being lightly covered with sand.
The mother then scoops a hole at the bottom of the stream, in which she deposits her eggs in batches, carefully covering up each batch as she does so.
In the middle of the mound, and about half-way between the two galleries, it scoops out a large round hole, from which three passages run to the lower gallery.
The fennec is a creature of the desert, and lives in burrows which it scoops out in the sand.
He turns himself round, puts in a pair of his hind pincers, which are very slender, and with them scoops the meat out of the cocoa-nut, and so puts his dinner into his mouth with his hind feet.
So we will hope that she will leave our chalk downs for the Itchen to wash gently away, while we talk about caves, and how Madam How scoops them out by water underground, just in the same way, only more roughly, as she melts the chalk.
For boggy land, soft clay, or, indeed, any land where water is running at the time of the excavation, scoops like the following will be found convenient for flat bottoms.
Some of their implements at Coppermine River are: stone kettles, wooden dishes, scoops and spoons made of buffalo or musk-ox horns.
The fish are then taken easily out with scoops or wicker baskets.
After placing these scoops across the entire width of the shack we then placed another layer of the scoops (reverse) on the first set.
We notched the two end logs down and then placed the scoops or troughs in these notches so that they would lay firm with the hollow side up.
Fire doors were opened below deck, scoops grated across the stokehold plates, the first engineer climbed swiftly to the companion and sprang out on deck.
Scoops grated across the aprons in the stokehold, and shrill calls came up the ventilators.
Each turtle scoops out a hole, of nearly a yard in diameter and depth; and having therein deposited from fifty to one hundred eggs, it covers them up with the sand, smoothing the surface, and treading it firmly down.
When serious business is intended, the turtle scoops new pits, leaving some of them partially and others quite unfilled.
In half a minute the creature returns; and thus he scoops about, booming and making innocent lightnings in the clear air.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scoops" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
