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A spring scale, spring balance or newton meter is a type of mechanical force gauge or weighing scale. It consists of a spring fixed at one end with a hook to attach an object at the other. [ 1 ] It works in accordance with Hooke's Law , which states that the force needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance scales linearly with ...
A Jolly balance from 1913. The Jolly balance is an instrument for determining specific gravities. Invented by the German physicist Philipp von Jolly in 1864, [1] it consists of a spring fastened at the top to a movable arm. At the lower end, the spring is provided with two small pans, one suspended beneath the other.
1. A horse of poor quality, referencing animals destined for slaughter. See also dogger. 2. Canner price: The lowest price likely to be paid for an equine, equivalent to the value of an animal to be sold by the pound and slaughtered for horse meat. Called meat-money in the UK. A horse cantering on the right lead canter
[1]: 79 A vehicle without springs was also called a dead axle. [2] The bandy of India is an unsprung cart. [2]: 11 Constructing with springs adds to the cost of the vehicle. [3]: 47 A vehicle would be sprung if it was to be used at faster speeds, carrying certain loads, or carrying passengers. [3]: 47 Milk floats were usually sprung. [2]
From the standpoint of the balance of the horse, this is a very stable gait, and the horse need not make major balancing motions with its head and neck. [7] The trot is the working gait for a horse. Horses can only canter and gallop for short periods at a time, after which they need time to rest and recover.
A swingletree (British Isles) or singletree (North America) is a small wooden or metal bar behind a harnessed horse. It is used to balance the pull of a driving horse or other draught animal when pulling a vehicle or other load. It is a kind of whippletree, and the term is also used sometimes for other whippletrees. [1]: 261 [2]: 188
The Henneke horse body condition scoring system is a numerical scale used to evaluate the amount of fat on a horse's body. It was developed in the early 1980s by Don Henneke at Texas A&M University with the goal of creating a universal scale to assess horses' bodyweight, [1] and was first published in 1983. [2]
The North American Single-footing Horse, also called the Single-footing Horse or Single-footer, is a horse breed originating in the southern United States.The term "single-foot" refers to an intermediate ambling gait, sometimes alternately called the rack or paso largo, where the horse lifts each foot up separately and puts it down alone.