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A doorstop (also door stopper, door stop or door wedge) is an object or device used to hold a door open or closed, or to prevent a door from opening too widely. The same word is used to refer to a thin slat built inside a door frame to prevent a door from swinging through when closed.
Ames True Temper is a multinational corporation headquartered in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA.It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation. [4] Ames True Temper specializes in the manufacture of non-powered lawn and garden products. [1]
Their first deliveries were made in a wheelbarrow. Armstrong was a business pioneer in some respects; he branded each cork he shipped as early as 1864, and soon was putting a written guarantee in each burlap bag of corks he shipped from his big, new factory. The company grew to be the largest cork supplier in the world by the 1890s.
A Kitchen Cabinet is a group of unofficial or private advisers to a political leader. [1] The term was originally used by political opponents of President of the United States Andrew Jackson to describe his ginger group, the collection of unofficial advisors he consulted in parallel to the United States Cabinet (the "parlor cabinet") following his purge of the cabinet at the end of the Eaton ...
Wedges can also be used to hold objects in place, such as engine parts (poppet valves), bicycle parts (stems and eccentric bottom brackets), and doors. A wedge-type door stop (door wedge) functions largely because of the friction generated between the bottom of the door and the wedge, and the wedge and the floor (or other surface).
A replacement depot in United States military terminology is a unit containing reserves or replacements for large front-line formations, such as field armies. As such, the term refers to formations similar to, but larger than, march battalions in other countries.
A wedge is a polyhedron of a rectangular base, with the faces are two isosceles triangles and two trapezoids that meet at the top of an edge. [1]. A prismatoid is defined as a polyhedron where its vertices lie on two parallel planes, with its lateral faces are triangles, trapezoids, and parallelograms; [2] the wedge is an example of prismatoid because of its top edge is parallel to the ...
Knock, knock, ginger (also known as ding, dong, ditch, Chappy and Knock door run) is a prank or game dating back to the traditional Cornish holiday of Nickanan Night where it was called Nicky nicky nine doors in the 19th-century or possibly the earlier. The game is played by children in many cultures.