10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HANDSTAFF»
Discover the use of
handstaff in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
handstaff and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Essex review: an illustrated quarterly record of ...
It is manipulated by holding the handle or handstaff in both hands, and swinging
the souple over the head in a rotary manner, and then bringing it heavily down on
the grain. In some cases the whirling is accomplished by the revolving of the ...
Edward Arthur Fitch, Charlotte Fell-Smith, 1908
Resting on this shield when idle is a bronze rack on a sleeve that slides on and
revolves with the shaft. Across the case may be noted the handstaff frame that
carries the handstaff. On this handstaff is a pinion that meshes with a gear
mounted ...
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Essex Review: An Illustrated Quarterly Record of Everything ...
It is manipulated by holding the handle or handstaff in both hands, and swinging
the souple over the head in a rotary manner, and then bringing it heavily down on
the grain. In some cases the whirling is accomplished by the revolving of the ...
4
The Northern Isles: Orkney and Shetland
Handstaff Souple Length. 1. 3ft 4in. (102cm) 1 ft 9iin. (55cm) 2. 3ft (91cm) 1ft 6 in.
(46cm) 3. 2ft 10 in. (86cm) 1ft 7 in. (49cm) 4. 108cm Diameter. 1. H in. (3cm) 2. H
in. (3cm) 3. 4. 58cm 2 in. (5cm) 21 in. (5.7cm) 6.5cm Joining band 1ft 7i in.
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Nelson's Foundational Bible Dictionary
... as a wrapping forhis master's money (Lk 19:20). HANDS,. LAYING. ON. OF.
See LAYING ONOFHANDS. HANDSPIKE. See JAVELIN, SPEAR. HANDSTAFF.
See JAVELIN, SPEAR. HANES See HAINES. HANG′ING The usual form.
strain on the handstaff or fork. A suitable handstaff holding wrench should be
used. The dial may be lifted out after the removal of the three dial screws. The
rubber packing is withdrawn and the two clinometer plate screws removed. The
bank ...
Fred Herbert Colvin, 1942
It is not only the kind of timber and its required thickness, but its shape that makes
the search for a suitable handstaff a long one. A handstaff has to be straight and
yet have a bend in it at the right place, six inches below the yoke-board, so as to ...
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A Glossary of North Country Words, in Use: With Their ...
Heuck, hook, a crook or sickle. Dut. hoek. Also the hip bone of a cow. Heuck-
fingered, thievish — digitis hamatis. Perhaps only cant. Heudin, a piece of leather
connecting the handstaff of a flail with the swingle — the hooding of the handstaff.
John Trotter Brockett, 1829
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A Farmer's Life: With a Memoir of the Farmer's Sister
Again, with more antiquated suggestiveness (for the implement was all but
obsolete already) he spoke of a flail and named its parts. The " handstaff " led off,
followed by the " start "— an iron knob or button in the upper end of the handstaff.
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A Glossary of North Country Words, in use. From an original ...
HEUCK-FINGERED, thievish—digilir hamatis. Perhaps only cant. HEUDIN, a
piece of leather connecting the handstaff of a flail with the swingle—the hooding
of the handstaff. HaUGH, a ragged, steep hill side—a ravine. Sax. hou, mons. Lye
.
John Trotter BROCKETT, 1829