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  • Thumbnail for Carrying pole
    A carrying pole, also called a shoulder pole or a milkmaid's yoke, is a yoke of wood or bamboo, used by people to carry a load. This piece of equipment...
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    (see picture). A tug pole is held to the bottom of the yoke using yoke irons and chains. The tug pole can either be a short pole with a chain attached...
    10 KB (1,227 words) - 05:56, 2 July 2024
  • together, or to assist humans (see carrying pole) in transporting heavy or awkward burdens. Yoke may also refer to: Yoke (aeronautics), the "wheel" that controls...
    2 KB (316 words) - 04:20, 7 January 2023
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    with a yoke, which is then termed a withers yoke, named after animals with high backs (withers) (e.g. zebu cattle) which pull mostly on the yoke part of...
    3 KB (331 words) - 17:17, 6 April 2024
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    porters either place the carrying poles directly upon their shoulders or use a yoke to transfer the load from the carrying poles to the shoulders. A simple litter...
    35 KB (4,304 words) - 22:21, 8 October 2024
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    Derrick (section Gin pole)
    derrick is a lifting device composed at minimum of one guyed mast, as in a gin pole, which may be articulated over a load by adjusting its guys. Most derricks...
    16 KB (2,364 words) - 01:52, 27 August 2024
  • buildings, etc. ‹See Tfd›ထမ်း [tʰáɰ̃] htan loads carried with a shoulder pole (yoke) ‹See Tfd›ထောက် [tʰauʔ] htauk stages of a journey, width of a point or...
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    forests, particularly in low-impact, select-cut logging. Oxen are usually yoked in pairs. Light work such as carting household items on good roads might...
    15 KB (1,566 words) - 20:58, 1 October 2024
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    types: Traditional pole and yoke with draft by traces. Dorsal hitch with draft direct from the saddle to the yoke and, via the pole, to the sulky. Of the...
    7 KB (834 words) - 04:02, 18 September 2024
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    too near the north or south celestial pole. The horseshoe mount overcomes the design disadvantage of English or Yoke mounts by replacing the polar bearing...
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    ran from a central ring on each yoke to the next pair, thus coupling the team in tandem fashion. The "wheelers" or "polers" were the older, heavier, trained...
    10 KB (1,393 words) - 01:44, 17 June 2024
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    according to Aristobulus, Alexander pulled the linchpin from the pole to which the yoke was fastened, exposing the two ends of the cord and allowing him...
    9 KB (1,084 words) - 13:53, 21 October 2024
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    447 Peng-Yoke, Ho. "The Astronomical Bureau in Ming China" p. 138 Peng-Yoke, Ho. "The Astronomical Bureau in Ming China" p. 140 Peng-Yoke, Ho. "The Astronomical...
    56 KB (7,053 words) - 18:50, 18 October 2024
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    Huliaipole (redirect from Hulyai Pole)
    serfdom, with the residents of what is now Huliaipole falling under the yoke of the Shabelskiys. In 1785, the board of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate...
    24 KB (1,928 words) - 11:19, 25 October 2024
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    capacitor. The temperature of the glass below the yoke is thus checked during the design of a new yoke. The yoke contains the deflection and convergence coils...
    266 KB (29,009 words) - 04:59, 2 November 2024
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    Coolie (redirect from Coolie yoke)
    (Sardinians) Sheep shagger (Sardinians) Terrone (South Italians) Wop Wog Poles Polack Pshek Russians Moskal Orc Tibla Serbs Shkije Serbomans Spaniards...
    82 KB (9,519 words) - 23:06, 12 November 2024
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    of a coil of wire wrapped around a soft iron core (a solenoid), an iron yoke which provides a low reluctance path for magnetic flux, a movable iron armature...
    49 KB (6,428 words) - 04:36, 27 June 2024
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    century. In its simplest form it resembles a hoe, consisting of a draft-pole (either composite or a single piece) pierced with a nearly vertical, wooden...
    11 KB (1,552 words) - 23:10, 22 October 2024
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    number of poles they have. Most arrangements use one field coil per pole. Some older or simpler arrangements use a single field coil with a pole at each...
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  • "I'll take this yoke upon me". It alludes to the Biblical verse Matthew 11:30 "For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light". The yoke is in this instance...
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