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1. The spherical object which the bowler propels towards the batter, who may attempt to hit it with the bat. Constructed of leather stitched around a cork core. A red ball is used in timed matches (or a pink ball for day/night cricket ), whilst a white ball is used in limited overs cricket. 2. A single delivery.
Featherbedding. Featherbedding is the practice of hiring more workers than are needed to perform a given job, or to adopt work procedures which appear pointless, complex and time-consuming merely to employ additional workers. [ 1] The term "make-work" is sometimes used as a synonym for featherbedding. The term "featherbedding" is usually used ...
Tick mattress. A tick mattress, bed tick or tick is a large bag made of strong, stiff, tightly-woven material [ 1] ( ticking ). This is then filled to make a mattress, with material such as straw, chaff, horsehair, coarse wool or down feathers, [ 2]: 674–5 vol1 and less commonly, leaves, grass, reeds, bracken, or seaweed. [ 3]
A bed with a duvet. A duvet (UK: / ˈ d uː v eɪ / DOO-vay, US: / d uː ˈ v eɪ / doo-VAY; [1] [2] from French duvet 'down'), usually called a comforter or (down-filled) quilt in American English, [3] [4] [5] and a doona in Australian English, [6] is a type of bedding consisting of a soft flat bag filled with either down, feathers, wool, cotton, silk, or a synthetic alternative, and is ...
Down feather. Down feathers lack the interlocking barbules of pennaceous feathers, making them very soft and fluffy. The down of birds is a layer of fine feathers found under the tougher exterior feathers. Very young birds are clad only in down. Powder down is a specialized type of down found only in a few groups of birds.
Germany. Published in. Grimm's Fairy Tales. " Frau Holle " (/ ˌfraʊ ˈhɒl / HOL; also known as " Mother Holle ", " Mother Hulda " or " Old Mother Frost ") is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Children's and Household Tales in 1812 (KHM 24). It is of Aarne-Thompson type 480.
A rope bed is a type of platform bed in which the sleeper (and mattress) is supported by a lattice of rope, rather than wooden slats. In cold climates, a rope bed would be topped with one or more insulating pailasses or bedticks, which would traditionally be stuffed with straw, chaff, or down feathers. It might also have a canopy hung with warm ...
Four-poster bed ( lit à colonnes ), 19th century, château de Compiègne, France. A four-poster bed or tester bed[ 1] is a bed with four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, or upper (usually rectangular) panel. This tester or panel will often have rails to allow curtains to be pulled around the bed.