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  • Thumbnail for Mandrel
    integral flange towards one end, and threaded at the opposite end. Work is gripped between the flange and a nut on the thread. A tapered mandrel (often called...
    9 KB (1,229 words) - 13:52, 9 October 2023
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    2007 season and a fix gripped mid-mountain quad chairlift for the 2008 season. For the 2018–19 season, Boreal opened a new fix gripped beginner quad chairlift...
    3 KB (281 words) - 22:46, 18 March 2024
  • or perpendicular orientation, depending on the way the brush is to be gripped during use. The material of both the block and bristles or filaments is...
    5 KB (703 words) - 17:51, 6 June 2024
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    Don't Ever Fall". Gripped Magazine. 8 December 2023. Retrieved 9 September 2024. "Six Classic WI6 Canadian Rockies Ice Climbs". Gripped Magazine. 27 November...
    41 KB (4,723 words) - 09:57, 11 September 2024
  • striking pressure points on an opponent. It was a piece of wood that was gripped by the wielder and was hung by a ring worn on the middle finger. Some versions...
    4 KB (230 words) - 03:23, 15 July 2024
  • Cancer (band) (redirect from Shadow Gripped)
    release their new album, tentatively titled Shadow Gripped, late in the year. In August 2018, Shadow Gripped was confirmed as the title of the band's next...
    15 KB (1,198 words) - 21:21, 24 August 2024
  • which the pitcher throws a curve ball as if it were a slider. The pitch is gripped like a curve ball, but thrown with a slider velocity. The term is a portmanteau...
    3 KB (334 words) - 12:42, 25 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bulldog forceps
    be weak or the jaws sheathed in a soft material so that the item being gripped is not crushed too severely. Forceps of this general type were designed...
    1 KB (106 words) - 21:01, 25 March 2022
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    mastered can be extremely effective. Much like a forkball, the vulcan is gripped between two fingers on the hand, but rather than the middle and index finger...
    5 KB (512 words) - 01:48, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gogona
    piece of bamboo/horn that has a bifurcation on one end. The solid end is gripped with the teeth and the free ends are then struck repeatedly with the fingers...
    3 KB (232 words) - 11:32, 1 September 2024
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    species that grow under similar conditions. In 1855, parts of England were gripped by 'pteridomania' (the fern craze). This term was coined by Charles Kingsley...
    3 KB (393 words) - 04:11, 20 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bhinneka Tunggal Ika
    national emblem of Indonesia, the Garuda Pancasila, written on the scroll gripped by the Garuda's claws. The phrase comes from Old Javanese, meaning "Unity...
    9 KB (992 words) - 08:36, 12 September 2024
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    surgical sternal saws. Often the word "gun" appears in the name of pistol gripped tools such as the glue gun, caulking gun and nail gun. Spray painters and...
    4 KB (422 words) - 03:58, 27 June 2024
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    boucle 'boss') is a small shield, up to 45 cm (up to 18 in) in diameter, gripped in the fist with a central handle behind the boss. It became more common...
    4 KB (521 words) - 15:30, 8 September 2024
  • Ultra Hand are two bowl-shaped grips with which ball-like objects can be gripped when the Ultra Hand is fully extended. Three colored balls were included...
    4 KB (423 words) - 21:47, 28 August 2024
  • Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko. Prior to his election, unrest had gripped the southern and eastern parts of Ukraine, in the aftermath of the Euromaidan...
    14 KB (1,325 words) - 02:02, 19 April 2024
  • agriculture, particularly the production of wheat and lupins. The town was gripped by a two-year drought from 2006 then had a bumper crop in 2008. In 2009...
    3 KB (235 words) - 04:47, 27 January 2023
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    jaws to a size slightly smaller than what is to be gripped. The jaws are then closed on the gripped object. Because of the lever action the jaws move only...
    5 KB (597 words) - 08:39, 27 February 2024
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    standing among the spectators and killed him. Hearing the alarming news, fear gripped the king. He lamented saying: "killing a priest will invite a curse more...
    3 KB (363 words) - 07:17, 20 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Solomon Islands)
    has been formed to investigate the causes of the ethnic violence that gripped Solomon Islands between 1997 and 2003. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission...
    10 KB (1,152 words) - 21:26, 14 August 2024
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