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  2. Whipstaff - Wikipedia

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    Shown are the whipstaff, the rowle, the tiller, the rudderstock, and the helmsman. A whipstaff is a steering device that was used on European sailing ships from the 14th to the 18th century. Its development preceded the invention of the more complex ship's wheel and followed the simple use of a tiller to control the steering of a ship underway. [1]

  3. Cultivator - Wikipedia

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    Mini tillers are a new type of small agricultural tillers or cultivators, used by farmers or homeowners. These are also known as power tillers or garden tillers. Compact, powerful and, most importantly, inexpensive, these agricultural rotary tillers are providing alternatives to four-wheel tractors and in the small farmers' fields in developing ...

  4. Tiller - Wikipedia

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    Tiller blocked by two lines Stern compartment containing the tiller of Swedish 17th century warship Vasa. A tiller or till is a lever used to steer a vehicle. The mechanism is primarily used in watercraft, where it is attached to an outboard motor, rudder post or stock to provide leverage in the form of torque for the helmsman to turn the rudder.

  5. File:Globe valve diagram-en.svg - Wikipedia

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    Internal parts of a globe valve. This is an English version of File:Globe_valve_diagram.svg in Commons. Source I (Petteri Aimonen ) created this work entirely by myself. Date 12:01, 9 September 2009 (UTC) Author Petteri Aimonen Permission (Reusing this file) See below. Other versions Globe_valve_diagram.svg

  6. Globe valve - Wikipedia

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    Globe valve. A globe valve, different from ball valve, is a type of valve used for regulating flow in a pipeline, consisting of a movable plug or disc element and a stationary ring seat in a generally spherical body. [1] Globe valves are named for their spherical body shape with the two halves of the body being separated by an internal baffle.

  7. Harrow (tool) - Wikipedia

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    Tine harrows are used to refine seed-bed conditions before planting, remove small weeds in growing crops, and loosen the inter-row soils to allow water to soak into the subsoil. The fourth is a chain disk harrow. Disks attached to chains are pulled at an angle over the ground. These harrows move rapidly across the surface.

  8. Gilson Brothers Co. - Wikipedia

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    Rotary tillers; Feed cutters; Concrete mixers; Minibikes; Snowmobiles; Barbecue grills; Snowblowers and snowthrowers; Lawn and garden tractors; Tillers; Those Gilson Brothers products that were sold under the Gilson brand were typically painted with the company's signature beige-and-crimson color scheme, starting in 1977 they used crimson-and ...

  9. Tine (structural) - Wikipedia

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    The terms tine and prong are synonymous. A tooth of a comb is a tine. A tooth of a comb is a tine. The term is also used on musical instruments such as the Jew's harp , tuning fork , guitaret , electric piano , music box or mbira (kalimba) which contain long protruding metal spikes ("tines") which are plucked to produce notes.