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  • Thumbnail for Tongs
    the working end of the tongs does not come into contact with a bench surface. The first pair of tongs belongs to the Egyptians. Tongs likely started off...
    4 KB (458 words) - 17:48, 27 October 2024
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    Hephaestus (category Children of Hera)
    centres of Greece, particularly Athens. The cult of Hephaestus was based in Lemnos. Hephaestus's symbols are a smith's hammer, anvil, and a pair of tongs. Hephaestus...
    56 KB (5,787 words) - 12:23, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Feuerzangenbowle
    Feuerzange was originally a pair of tongs, but nowadays it is common for a purpose-designed metal grate mounted on top of the bowl to hold the Zuckerhut...
    3 KB (337 words) - 00:40, 29 May 2024
  • virtues of their toys over his tongs. Hamid retorts with several clever arguments and before long his friends become more enamoured with the tongs than their...
    7 KB (718 words) - 03:06, 3 November 2024
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    Mästermyr chest (category Collection of the Swedish History Museum)
    Three sledgehammers Three hammers One ball-peen hammer One pair of large forging tongs One pair of snips Four smaller anvils Tools for making nails Three...
    8 KB (867 words) - 11:22, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chisel
    allows it to be snapped off with a pair of tongs. This tool is also often used in combination with a "top fuller" type of hotcut, when the piece being cut...
    14 KB (1,947 words) - 15:30, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rotary table (drilling rig)
    used by crews in lieu of using a second pair of tongs to makeup or break out pipes. The rotary bushings are located at the center of the rotary table. These...
    3 KB (319 words) - 00:36, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gongfu tea
    absence of a temperature-controlled kettle). Optional: Aroma cup for appreciating the tea's scent (聞香杯; wénxiāng bēi). Optional: A pair of tongs or tweezers...
    10 KB (1,511 words) - 21:40, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Crucible tongs
    Crucible tongs are scissors-like tools with a pair of attached arms that curve outward near the ends to form a rounded gripping area that allows users...
    3 KB (389 words) - 07:47, 10 June 2024
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    Lever (redirect from Law of the lever)
    side of the effort and the fulcrum is located on the other side, e.g. a pair of tweezers, a hammer, a pair of tongs, a fishing rod, and the mandible of a...
    16 KB (2,294 words) - 06:57, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Impalement
    a pair of tongs to grab a rod made of iron, which had been made red hot. He positioned the glowing iron rod beside the wooden stave, and as one of his...
    91 KB (9,898 words) - 10:40, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vaikuntha Chaturdashi
    of tongs to pick the flowers without touching them, as promised. Shivaji and Jijabai were pleased with the ingenious and incomparable performance of the...
    10 KB (1,279 words) - 03:17, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Uluburun shipwreck
    of Near Eastern type. Four swords (Canaanite, Mycenaean, and Italian types). Large number of tools: sickles, awls, drill bits, a saw, a pair of tongs...
    23 KB (2,572 words) - 01:51, 10 October 2024
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    of a tool resembling a pair of tongs, the two dies being placed one at the extremity of each leg. This avoided the necessity of readjusting the dies between...
    20 KB (2,388 words) - 17:22, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gaboon viper
    Gaboon viper (category Reptiles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
    lightly on the top of the head with a pair of tongs to test their reactions. Hissing and anger were rarely displayed, so the tongs were usually set aside...
    26 KB (3,277 words) - 00:28, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cnidoscolus texanus
    Cnidoscolus texanus (category Flora of Arkansas)
    pants, long sleeves, boots, and gloves to pick the seed pods with a pair of tongs, then dropping them into a paper sack and waiting for the pods to ripen...
    8 KB (1,013 words) - 08:14, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of eating utensils
    Skewer Tongs Toothpick Cocktail stick Drinking straw Cutlery – A set of Western utensils: usually knife, fork and spoon Sujeo – A paired set of Korean...
    8 KB (818 words) - 23:34, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Plumber wrench
    forms of adjustable pliers, such as the Vise Grip and "Channelock" tongue-and-groove plier. Johansson's tool is used rather than a pair of tongs[clarification...
    3 KB (300 words) - 18:41, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lewis (lifting appliance)
    large slabs of polished stone in contemporary stone yards. A manual kerb lifter is a large, adjustable pair of tongs, made with a pair of handles so that...
    10 KB (1,401 words) - 18:47, 5 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flensing
    small of its tail and it was brought to the bottom of the slipway, where the small of its flukes was secured by a whale claw (a giant pair of tongs invented...
    12 KB (1,702 words) - 09:59, 31 March 2024
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