A is a part of the stave or thickness of the great store vat; into this the tube B of the cock is fitted, and is held tight in its place by a nut, a a, screwed on withinside.
He spoke of his great herd's stave that had a shank of a yard and a half long and was as thick as my wrist.
The pay of the army was far in arrear, and it was on the army that he depended to keep down hostile parties at home and to stave off a Royalist attack from abroad.
All that he could do was to stave off a declaration in favour of the establishment of a democratic Republic, by proposing that the Army Council should reduce into formal shape the engagements entered upon at Newmarket and Triploe Heath.
Now, he could not reconcile it to his conscience to stave it off any longer; his conscience in this, no doubt, concurring with his interests.
Meanwhile, a revolt broke out in East (uncivilized) China, and the manipulator of horses was sent by the Emperor back to China at express speed, in order to stave off trouble till the Emperor could get back himself.
In which Lilias hears a stave of an old song and there is a leave-taking beside the river 148 XXXV.
In case of full flood they could stave off drowning for a time by climbing higher.
As it is, we can't stave them off very long," added Henri.
They played with balls, both large and small, and sleds of all descriptions; and if the latter were not to be had, or all in use, a barrel stave or board would be made to answer the same purpose.
One barrel stave would hold only one coaster, and there were usually enough for the boys, but if by chance the little girls laid hands upon the sleds before they did, the staves were then their only resource.
It was a rush past the window down the hill, first by a pair of muckluked feet, then a barrel staveand a boy, sometimes little Pete, and sometimes John.
And the other vision is of her in the country in the midst of a summer day, under a summer sky, swinging high and recklessly in a barrel-stave hammock.
Stave jointer, a machine for dressing the edges of staves.
To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
Let us chant a passingstave In honor of that hero brave.
And answered with such craft as women use, Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance That breaks upon them perilously.
Defn: A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper.
A kind of mallet for beating the bungstave of a cask to start the bung.
They threatened to foreclose--I think that's the word--and Royal has had God knows what work to stavethem off.
If I could get my troop now, that would stave off the Jews; or, if I should win some heavy pots on the Prix de Dames, things would swim on again.
By that time the fierce rays of the sun had dried every board andstave so that it became like tinder.
Through that wood the dry hot wind had streamed for many weeks, till every stave and every board had become dry to its utmost possibility.
A moment later Landless heard him whistle to his dogs, and then break into a stave of a cavalier drinking song, sung at the top of a full manly voice, and dying away in the direction of the stables.
Her companion laughed musically and sang a staveof a cavalier love song.
Ye know I'd back ye if 'twas all right and proper; but I never disobeyed an order yet, and stave me, I never will.
Stave me, Rollins, but the first thing I'll be running foul of some of these Dagos, and I don't want a fracas until I see the lay of the old man.
A song was soon proposed, and many a ludicrous stave sung, as the inspiring cup made the circle of the company.
Poor harmless soul, thy merry stave Shall live when nobler poets bend; The poor old fellow seemed elated to a degree.
Then I shall be confoundedly cut," said Dick Gradus, "for I never yet could chant a stave or make a couplet in my life.
Come, fill your pipe, and I'll sing you the old stave I used to chant on Saturday nights, when we messed together on board the Leander.
Having felled it and marked with your eye the best stave, cut it again so that your stave is seven feet long.
In selecting the portion of the tree best suited for a bow, choose that part that when cut will cause the stave to bend backward toward the bark.
If it is impossible to get a stave six feet in length, then a wide stave three and a half feet long may be used.
Determined to duplicate these old bows, I selected a very fine grained stave of seasoned yew and made an exact duplicate, according to the recorded measurements.
If you must make a bow right away, place the stave in running water for a month, then dry in a shady place for a month, and it is ready for use.
Look over the stave and estimate whether it is capable of yielding two bows instead of one.
Then split the trunk into halves or quarters with steel or wooden wedges so that your stave is from three to six inches wide.
Shift thestave in the vise so that the sap wood is downward, and set it so that the average plane of the sap is level.
Place one stave in a bench vise and carefully clean off the bark with a draw knife.
Ishi insisted that this end of the staveshould always be the upper end of the weapon.
Taking a yew stave having a dark red color and a layer of white sap wood about a quarter of an inch thick, covered with a thin maroon-colored bark, let us make a bow.
The owner of this empty house, having sent a flat refusal to Acton's request for the use of it, the latter quietly told the policemen to stave in the door.
The same afternoon he saw some twenty or thirty men attempting to stavein a hardware store, evidently after pistols.
At A the common method is shown, the stave being simply driven into the hole and wedged.
The stave here is socketed and the pin turned to a smaller diameter.
His policy was to staveoff a rupture with England, and, if possible, to bring that power into pacific and rational relations with the United States.
