The chisels having "tangs" should never be hammered, as the tang acts as a wedge and splits the handle.
It was much safer to drill these holes, as a brad awl sometimes splits wood that is very thin.
For arrows any light, tough wood, which splits straight, will do.
In using chisels and gouges never strike with a hammer, but always with a wooden mallet; the hammer splits the handles.
I'll take the same chance with you on that question of splits I does former, an' I wants a hundred on every kyard, middle to win ag'in the ends.
Unsheltered, among the bushes, the wallet of the Banded Epeira, when the July heat arrives, splits under the effort of the inner air.
The fury which my soul at first Upon usurping Bharat nursed, On this Virádha will I wreak As Indra splits the mountain peak.
He cuts the tree down, splits it up, and kindles a fire with it.
Above 27° the heptahydrated salt, like the decahydrated salt at 34°, splits up into the monohydrated salt and a saturated solution.
Amongst them may be mentioned antimony pentachloride, SbCl{5}, which splits up into chlorine and antimony trichloride when heated.
The sulphate crystallises in the pores of the stone and splits off fragments of it.
These battens were held rigidly to form by thin crosspieces, or splints, about ¼ by 1 inch forced athwartships through short splits in the battens and pegged at the ends on the chine battens.
The ends of the thwarts were wedge-or chisel-shaped and instead of being tenoned were forced into splitsin the round gunwales.
In some canoes, however, the ribs near the ends of the canoe were forced into short splits on the underside of the inwale.
The thwart ends might also be forced into short splitson the inside face of the inwales or might be tenoned there; in any case a single lashing was used at the thwart ends.
The coal readily splits along these lines, and the split surfaces thus formed are parallel with the smooth faces.
Sometimes the faces along which the coal splits are not smooth, but exhibit a thin layer of dull, charred-looking substance, which is known as "mineral charcoal.
Wheat rejoices in a tropical summer, and it never succeeds better than when stiff land like mine splits into deep cracks, locally called "chawns.
Then comes the skilled man, who cuts the poles into suitable lengths, and splits the pieces into the correct widths.
When you dissolve it in water it becomes ionized, which means that each molecule of salt splits up into two ions one of which is electrically positive and the other electrically negative.
Now when we dissolve salt in water it seems as if each molecule splits up into two things which we then call "ions.
He has played a joke and turned a driver out of his cart, and he nearly splits his sides with merriment.
About the parallel of Sierra Leone the featuresplits into a network of ranges, curves, and zigzags, which show no general trend.
One remarkable trait in the lode is the manner in which it splits into blocks and slabs, all the faces of the quartz pebbles being cloven in precisely the same plane.
In the course of ages it splits into a male and female principle which again split in two.
Japanning is usually done on flesh splits, whereas enamelling is done on the grain, and if splits are used they are printed and boarded.
Skivers are the grain splits of sheep skins, the fleshes of which are finished for chamois leather.
Another neighbor suggests that the birds do not open the pods; that a sort of blast, apt to come after rain, splits the pods, and the birds then eat the peas.
Only yesterday, we were coming down a branch of the great gorge which splits the plain in two.
Burns brilliantly, and splits with a crackling noise when in the fire.
Flesh splits of hides are simply stuck together with a collodion or nitrocellulose solution.
Within the same period Queensland, or at any rate the southern part of it, if it splits into two over the question, will adopt universal suffrage.
In Melbourne the scattered position of the suburbs and the extent of the population splits up the élite into several local societies, but there is yet one crême de la crême.
While ordinary wood splits easily enough with the grain, it is very difficult to drive an axe through the wood at right angles to the grain, as shown by diagram to the left (Fig.
This frame is supposed to be covered with splits or shakes (Figs.
So, if you find that the tin roof to your farmhouse, bungalow, or camp leaks in consequence of some splitsat the seams and a few rust holes patch them yourself.
It has a pyramidal crown; its smooth bark splits crosswise; its leaves are elliptical, and covered with down on their lower sides; its blossoms are snowy white and its fruits sweet and of different colors.
From the egg a grub hatches out, which, after a time, passes into a motionless pupa stage, and ultimately the investment of this splits open so that the perfect insect may emerge.
Shakes" are splits of various forms as: star shakes, Fig.
Straight-grained wood is much easier to split than cross-grained wood in which the fibers are interlaced, and soft wood, provided it is elastic, splits easier than hard.
When an ax is stuck into the end of a piece of wood, the wood splitsin advance of the ax edge.
But the fibers are stiff and resist this bending with the result that the end splits or "checks" as in C, Fig.
If the bark is left on and evaporation hindered, the splits will not open so wide.
Immediately following on this, the form splits up into sets for mathematics, a subject in which they never make much progress for several reasons.
One section of the class to-day splits up into a lot of stockbrokers and the rest into investors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "splits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
