A small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf.
An awl for making small holes for brads or small screws.
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Examples for "spine "
Examples for "spine "
1 However, the risk in orthopedic surgery remains unclear, especially in spine surgery.
2 It wasn't the New Age talk that sent shivers up my spine .
3 Therefore, the animal's internal organs hang from the spine in proper order.
4 The spine should simply include author name, book title and company name.
5 Conclusions: Clinical cervical spine tests can support the diagnostic process for CST.
1 A niggardly purse in the pocket becomes a thorn in the side.
2 For he recognized the hollow in the chalk-thegnarled thorn - the wide outlook.
3 She's told me often enough: I am a thorn in her side.
4 The Schongauers' transport monopoly had long been a thorn in their side.
5 Cael had been a thorn in Judah's side for far too long.
1 California didn't issue a new plate in 'fifty-seven, just a sticker tab.
2 Later, if the sticker was gone, they'd know the resident was home.
3 And there was a sticker on her guitar case and it said
4 Red ones meant home unsafe for habitation, green sticker inspected and passed.
5 That's a nice little sticker , by the way; Hamilton Standard made it.
1 He felt his flesh prickle in the intensity of his suppressed excitement.
2 And she suddenly felt the hairs on her arms prickle and rise.
3 Perhaps if I am standing, it will not prickle quite so much?
4 But as Chance drew closer, he felt a familiar prickle of unease.
5 Sylvi stared at him, a prickle of cold moving up her spine.
1 The molecular mechanism that controls the development of the spikelet remains unclear.
2 Attracted by the bait, she came with measured steps towards the spikelet .
3 Three lines with a heritable increase in spikelet number were identified.
4 There is nothing under the canopy of Heaven greater than an autumn spikelet .
5 The Tarantula, when touched by the intruding body, contemplates self-defence and bites the spikelet .
1 Tossing the pricker bush aside, I delved into the vegetable patch again.
2 He dug through the supplies until he found another thin straw and finger pricker .
3 That scrub grass is probably loaded with pricker balls.
4 In the midst, Frank Talbot returned with the tidings that the pricker Guy Norman was nowhere to be found.
5 John Bain, a common pricker , swore that, as he passed her door, he heard her talking to the devil.
6 One noontide I was by Franklin Swinton's gate, when up he rides with a yeoman pricker at his heels.
7 Well, open save for the trees - the pricker bushes were farther off the road to the left than they had been before.
8 Finally, when no more can fall in, piece after piece is jambed in by a pricker , and the cask is bunged up.
9 Gurney the gunner pierced the serge through the touch hole with the pricker , and primed with the fine powder from the horn.
10 The pricker is a converted silver pencil-case, with the usual sliding piece; it is a very small one, and is attached to my watch chain.
11 Raised lace has to be stamped out from the wrong side with a lace awl or kind of pricker of bone made for the purpose.
12 The worthy Mr. Pricker was interrupted by the shouts of the people.
13 With him began the connection between the houses of Hohenzollern and Pricker .
14 Was this young man really the son and heir of Mr. Pricker ?
15 Pricker folded his measure with heroic determination and laid it upon the table.
16 When he died he was succeeded by his son, the now living Pricker .
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