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The name slide or neckerchief slide appears as early as October 1923 with a discussion of the slide being a smart addition to the neckerchief and having some benefits over a knot to tie the neckerchief on. The article makes reference to making a troop's or patrol's own slide. In the same article, on page 63, the slide is referred to as a "Slip-On".
The term topple refers to blocks coming away by rotation from a vertical face. A slide is the movement of a body of material that generally remains intact while moving over one or several inclined surfaces or thin layers of material (also called shear zones) in which large deformations are concentrated.
Winning every trick. Sometimes called a 'grand slam', with a 'little slam' being every trick bar one. [90] Also called a march (e.g. Euchre), mord (e.g. Brandle and Grasobern), durch or durchmarsch, (e.g. Skat and Schafkopf), matsch, tout or vole. sleeping Said of cards that are not in play because e.g. they are in the unused part of the pack. [2]
Also called nitriding. A field stripped Thompson submachine gun. Feed ramp: A detail which leads the cartridge from the magazine into the chamber. Field strip: Disassembling a firearm for the purpose of repair or cleaning, without tools. When using tools, this is called a detail strip.
Slide (baseball), dropping to the ground when going into a base to avoid being tagged; Slide (skateboarding), skateboarding tricks; Playground slide, a smooth, sloped downward surface on which children slide while sitting; Sliding tackle, a skill in soccer; Water slide, a form of amusement in which people slide down a wet surface into a ...
As a noun, this word refers to a child who is attending school. It can also refer to the black, circular area of a person's eye. OK, that's it for hints—I don't want to totally give it away ...
88) that a slide could fill out a melodic gap whose final note occurs on a weak beat. [10] In discussing three-note slides, Türk states that the character of the slide is wholly dependent on the mood of the music: a lively work will suggest a fast slide, and a "sorrowful" work will be the appropriate place for a slower decoration. [11]
President Trump will on his first day in office Monday issue an order defining a person's sex as "male or female" — requiring government agencies to use the "immutable" designation on forms and ...