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A Pierrot playing with a "Mr Jollyboy" or jig doll, c.1910. Jig dolls are traditional wooden or tin-plate toys for adults or children. They are dolls with loose limbs that step dance or 'jig' on the end of a vibrating board or platform in imitation of a real step dancer.
Automatic fly-away jib stick; Moulded or wood/fiberglass composite centerboard with symmetric airfoil cross-section; Kick-up rudder with symmetric airfoil cross-section; Suction self-bailers (which empty a boat after capsize in 4 minutes) Adjustable continuous 16:1 vang and 12:1 jib halyard, rigged to side control panel
In the late 1990s he was instrumental in reviving the jib movement. Walker has been recognized with various awards including Snowboarder magazine's Rider of the Year list six times (more than any other rider in history), [ 1 ] European magazine Onboard's Jibber of All Time, and his peers voted him for multiple awards in Transworld Snowboarding ...
A stepchild is the daughter or son of one's spouse but not of oneself Stepchild may also refer to: Stepchild, a 1947 American drama film "Stepchild", a song written by Bob Dylan as "Am I Your Stepchild?" (1978), sung by Solomon Burke on his 2002 album Don't Give Up on Me and by Jerry Lee Lewis on Rock & Roll Time 2014
The bindle is colloquially known as the blanket stick, particularly within the Northeastern hobo community. A hobo who carried a bindle was known as a bindlestiff. According to James Blish in his novel A Life for the Stars, a bindlestiff was specifically a hobo who had stolen another hobo's bindle, from the colloquium stiff, as in steal.
Spinning gee-haw whammy diddle The gee-haw whammy diddle.. A gee-haw whammy diddle is a mechanical toy consisting of two wooden sticks. One has a series of notches cut transversely along its side and a smaller wooden stick or a propeller attached to the end with a nail or pin.
A shillelagh (/ ʃ ɪ ˈ l eɪ l i,-l ə / shil-AY-lee, -lə; Irish: sail éille or saill éalaigh [1] [ˌsˠal̠ʲ ˈeːlʲə], "thonged willow") is a wooden walking stick and club or cudgel, typically made from a stout knotty blackthorn stick with a large knob at the top. It is associated with Ireland and Irish folklore.
A stepchild is the offspring of one's spouse, but not one's own offspring, either biologically or through adoption. Stepchildren can come into a family in a variety of ways. A stepchild may be the child of one's spouse from a previous relationship, or alternatively, be the result of an adoption, in which case the child would have no biological ...