The Cypriote well-sinker works upon a principle of simple multiplication.
The Cypriote well-sinker is wonderfully clever in discovering springs, and I have already described the method of multiplying the water-power of one source by securing and concentrating the neighbouring sources.
The well-sinker commences by boring, or rather digging, a circular hole two feet six inches in diameter.
Sinker takes with this the first two words of next line: I have trembled, O LORD, at Thy work.
Sinker takes אשר as the simple relative: I who will wait patiently for the day of doom.
He now took aim at the central chandelier and by good luck sent the sinker and line whirling around one of the pendants, leaving the set of teeth dangling below a foot or more.
He had previously tied the set of teeth to a bit of fishing line having a sinkerat the other end.
Batubatúhan ang iring nga lumsan, Put a sinker on the cat you are going to drown.
Mitaslup ang tinggà sa túbig, The sinker sunk into the water.
The equipment is lowered, and when the sinker touches the bottom, it is raised so that the hook is a couple of inches off the bottom, and the line is held until s.
Possibly this has been a net sinkersimilar to the following.
Oval flat river pebble with four notches chipped in the edge from both sides, and about equi-distant from each other, probably a sinker for a fish net (Fig.
The design on the lower part of the same object was formed in the same way and on the obverse of the net sinker shown in Fig.
Half of a stone ring, probably a sinker for a fish net.
A design similar to the part of some of these pictures interpreted as representing a headdress was also found pecked in the surface of the grooved net sinker shown in Fig.
Flat disk-shaped pebble with four notches about equi-distant around the edge, and chipped from each side, probably a sinker for a fish net.
Plate XIII) at Selah Canon, eight miles to the northeast and the headdress pecked on the grooved net sinkershown in Fig.
It is probably a club-head, net sinker or gaming stone[217] similar to those used in the Thompson River region.
Flat oval river pebble with pieces chipped from both sides of the edge at five places, probably a sinker for a fish net.
In 1908, he saw a perforated sinker found near the outlet of Kootenay Lake, on the borders of the Lake division of the Colville tribe and the Flat-bow or Kootenay Lake branch of the Kootenay tribe.
Boulder in which groove is partly pecked, probably a net sinker or anchor.
Oval flat river pebble with four notches chipped in the edge from both sides, and about equi-distant from each other, probably a sinker for a fish net.
A grooved sinker has been found at Comox, grooved stones which may have been used as sinkers occur at Saanich, on the west coast of Washington and the lower Columbia.
Oval river pebble with four notches chipped in the edge nearly equi-distant from each other, probably a sinker for a fish net.
At the same instant the slipping sinker that hangs under Apparatus I.
The improvised sinker was well smeared with blubber, and this time it sank so rapidly to the bottom as to leave no doubt of the correctness of the sounding -- 130 fathoms again.
When the apparatus has reached the depth from which a sample is to be taken, a small slipping sinker is sent down along the line.
We first tried taking soundings with a sinker of 66 pounds, and a tube for taking specimens of the sea-bed.
When the sinker strikes the sampler, it displaces a small pin, which holds the brass tube in the position in which the valves remain open.
By holding one's finger on the line one can feel, at all events in fairly calm weather, when the sinkers strike against the cylinders; but I used to look at my watch, as it takes about half a minute for the sinker to go down 100 metres.
A large white blanket was folded into a neat square, and on it was laid a lead sinker for the use of Mamonglo.
He tossed the sinker over the side of the canoe, paying out the line until the sinker touched bottom.
Tom had, among his tackle, a line with a sinker attached.
The drag of the line and the constant joggling of the sinker on rocks and snags, make it difficult to tell when one has a strike--and it is always too long between bites.
The sinker is supposed to go bumping along the bottom, while the bait follows three or four feet above it.
I have no fancy for sitting in a slow-moving boat for hours, dragging three or four hundred feet of line in deep water, a four pound sinker tied by six feet of lighter line some twenty feet above the hooks.
The sinker carries a gauge consisting of a quill-tube open at the lower end and closed at the top.
When the sinker reaches bottom, the heavy weight is detached automatically, so that there is but little strain on the wire as it ascends with its thermometer and battery of tubes containing samples of the depths reached.
He was fishing in deep water now, with a lead sinker attached to his line; and, beside him, was a milk-can filled with water and containing live shiners for bait.
Drop the line down till the sinker touches bottom; then pull up about a fathom.
I have no fancy for sitting in a slow-moving boat for hours, dragging three or four hundred feet of line in deep water, a four-pound sinker tied by six feet of lighter line some twenty feet above the hooks.
Starting at the Fukui's mainmast, we dropped the sinker of the fishing-line over the stern and paid out until it reached her deck.
He used to take a woman's head in his mouth with the old Sales-Sinker shows.
I speak of the longboat, of our thirst and hunger, and of the third officer, the fair lad with cheeks virgin of the razor, and that he it was who used it as a sinker when we strove to catch fish.
The 1842 directory lists him as a die sinker at the same address in partnership with a Frederick B.
The die sinker first softened the steel to suit his particular taste and then incised the design, using a succession of small chisels.
The intention was that the lead should be closed over the line, after the line had been inserted in it, by means of a light blow with a hammer, and thus the sinker would be secured to its place.
The sinker said so; but he wasn't the man to sink anywhere else.
But the deep-sinker wore the broadest smile they had ever seen upon his languid countenance.
When everything was in ship-shape order about the boat, he took out his perch lines, ganged on a new hook, and rigged an extra sinker for use in case of accident.
His heart beat as the sinker touched the bottom, and he pulled it up the proper distance.
When thesinker broke the surface, Biff looked at Li.
Then he felt the thud of the heavysinker touching bottom.
Ordinary black bass tackle is suitable for the cavalli, with a sinker adapted to the strength of the tide.
Sidenote: Float and Sinker] In comparatively still water a quill float, or a very small one of cork, must be used to keep the bait about a foot from the bottom, with a light sinker to balance the float.
In swift water the float will not be required, but the small sinker is needed to keep the bait near the bottom.
Eagle's gang was down hook, line, and sinker on Whitethorn, and they cleaned up.
I'm down on him hook, line, and sinker to win and place, so give him a nice ride and I'll declare you in with a piece of the dough.
When this takes place it is the purpose of the sweep-wire to cut the mooring wire and allow the buoyant mine to float up to the surface free of its sinker (see Fig.
When the mine was clear of the submarine it sank to the bottom, owing to the weight of the sinker or anchor.
After a short immersion, however, a special device enabled the top half, containing the charge of explosive and the contact firing horns, to part company with the heavy lower half, composed of the iron sinker and the reel of mooring wire.
The laws of civilised warfare also require even a moored mine to be fitted with some mechanical device which renders it safe when once it has broken adrift from the wire and heavy sinker which holds it in a stated position.
A heavy iron sinker which acts as an anchor, holding the mine in one position.
A vessel is approaching a mine D, moored to the bottom by a sinker H.
