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Using a drawknife in making a flatbow. A drawknife is commonly used to remove large slices of wood for flat faceted work, to debark trees, or to create roughly rounded or cylindrical billets for further work on a lathe, or it can shave like a spokeshave plane, where finer finishing is less of concern than a rapid result.
It glides by stretching out its body sideways and opening its ribs so the belly is concave, and by making lateral slithering movements. It can remarkably glide up to 100 metres (330 ft) and make 90 degree turns.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
A slithering, jumping worm. JESSICA DAMIANO. Updated October 20, 2022 at 12:27 PM. Just when you think you’ve become accustomed to the spotted lanternfly invasion, along comes another menace to ...
[5] [7] As in many other animals, the muscles activate late in the lengthening phase of the muscle strain cycle, just prior to muscle shortening which is a pattern believed to maximize work output from the muscle. Terrestrial Locomotion: EMG recordings show a longer absolute duration and duty cycle of muscle activity during locomotion on land. [5]
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Unlike other viperids, they often "freeze" instead of slithering away, and as a result, many bites occur due to people unknowingly stepping on or near them. [6] This tendency to freeze most likely evolved because of the extreme effectiveness of their camouflage. When lying on dead leaves or red clay, they can be almost impossible to notice.
The rinkhals (/ ˈ r ɪ ŋ k (h) æ l s /; Hemachatus haemachatus), also known as the ringhals / ˈ r ɪ ŋ h æ l s / [4] or ring-necked spitting cobra, [5] is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae.