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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. The thin blade lends itself to create complex concave or ...
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played on a cricket field (see image of cricket pitch and creases) between two teams of eleven players each. [75] The field is usually circular or oval in shape, and the edge of the playing area is marked by a boundary , which may be a fence, part of the stands, a rope, a painted line, or a combination of these ...
Gryllus bimaculatus is a species of cricket in the subfamily Gryllinae.Most commonly known as the two-spotted cricket, [2] it has also been called the "African" or "Mediterranean field cricket", although its recorded distribution also includes much of Asia, including China and Indochina through to Borneo. [2]
A Sussex trug. A Sussex trug is a wooden basket.It is made from a handle and rim of coppiced sweet chestnut wood which is hand-cleft then shaved using a drawknife.The body of the trug is made of five or seven thin boards of white willow, also hand-shaved with a drawknife. [1]
They are called kamado-uma or colloquially benjo korogi (便所コオロギ, literally, "toilet cricket"). A representation of a female from the Troglophilus genus has been found engraved on a bison bone in the Cave of the Trois-Frères , [ 12 ] showing that they were likely already present around humans, maybe as pets or pests, in caves ...
a cricket pitch which has been intentionally prepared in a specific manner in order to gain a competitive advantage for the home team, such as creating a dry, crumbly surface that particularly favours the home team's spin bowlers, or a firm, grassy surface which would favour fast bowlers, or any surface which exacerbates perceived weaknesses in ...
Gryllus pennsylvanicus is known as the fall field cricket. G. pennsylvanicus is common in southern Ontario , is widespread across much of North America [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and can be found even into parts of northern Mexico .
In cricket, a yorker is a ball bowled (a delivery) which bounces by the batsman's feet. This makes it very challenging for a batter to play. [1] When a batsman assumes a normal stance, a yorker generally bounces on the cricket pitch on or near the batsman's popping crease.