单词 | caltrop |
例句 | Clarisse climbed aboard with a batch of javelins, spiked balls, caltrops, and a bunch of other nasty toys. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z "We've planted iron spikes under the water, y'see, and there's caltrops scattered among them rocks there. It's the same on all the fords, by your brother's command." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As they waded in to breast their way across, men stepped in hidden pools and went down splashing, while others stumbled over stones or gashed their feet cm the hidden caltrops. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A common complaint of bots is that a loose cord or rug tassel will jam the brushes and the motor, stopping the robot like a caltrop. Best new robot vacuum 2012-11-25T16:59:00Z Police spokesman Mikael Wern said that 10 locations were raided early Wednesday and officers found caltrops — spikes used to deflate vehicle tires — gas masks and objects that could be thrown. Copenhagen police detain 25 after squatter anniversary riots 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Police said they encountered large-caliber weapons, explosives and caltrops, as well as snipers. Heavily armed gang storms security company in Paraguay and runs off with millions of dollars 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z The military instrument called “caltrop” resembles that fruit, from which it may have been evolved; and the appellation tribolo is one of the etymological elements in “caltrop.” The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century 2012-02-03T03:00:18.817Z In fact, they are homemade caltrops, designed to puncture the boots of infantrymen and the tires of their vehicles, and were made, by the bucketful, by welders in the same shops. Hidden Workshops Add to Libyan Rebels? Arsenal 2011-05-04T05:15:13Z General Ward, too, with five hundred men, made his way from Roxbury, across the neck, about which the enemy had scattered caltrops or crows' feet,1 to impede invasion. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools The ground was carpeted with thick turf and quite free from caltrops. The Grandee Darius caused caltrops to be scattered in the grass and along the roads, wherever the army of Alexander would be likely to approach his troops on the field of battle. Alexander the Great Makers of History Her room was kind of a disaster, covered with layers of clothes and notebooks and parts of PCs that would dig into your stocking feet like caltrops. Little Brother These approaches Bruce is said to have rendered difficult by pitfalls, and even by caltrops to maim the horses. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 VII., was "a ton, out of which issues some plant, perhaps a caltrop, which might be contracted to the first syllable of his name." Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. These caltrops were scattered in the grass and on the trails to hamper the approach of Indians, and were frequently poisoned to cause infection. A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" Bamboo caltrops are sharp bamboo slats49 between 2 and 3 feet long set in the ground, usually at an angle of about 45� in places where the wild boar have to make a descent. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir Abattis, military pits, caltrops and spikes, stuck through planks, and explosive machines were employed in front of different parts of the defences. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. More than eighteen hundred of those planks bristling with nails, called caltrops, were distributed over the yonder side of the ditch. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 It was high, mullioned, with a broad transom across the centre, and above the middle of the transom a tiny coat of arms—three caltrops gules upon a field argent—let into the diamond-paned glass. The Refugees If wool delight thee, first, be far removed All prickly boskage, burrs and caltrops; shun Luxuriant pastures; at the outset choose White flocks with downy fleeces. The Georgics Another form of caltrops very common indeed, and very treacherous in its character, consists of small spikes made of slivers of bamboo, about 18 centimeters long, or of pointed pieces of hardwood. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir Geese and cranes, chicory, mildew, thistles, cleavers, caltrops, darnel and shade are farmer's enemies. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The space between the ditches was filled with pits, and scattered with iron caltrops or hooked spikes. A Book of Golden Deeds Most men also carry a pliable basket full of bamboo caltrops, thin splints, pointed and poisoned. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Sooner or later, the worm forsakes this kind of caltrop which catches on to everything. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Whosoever ventured to cross this perilous bridge, would certainly meet death from one source or another, either from the hurtling shower of arrows from above or from the bristling caltrops below. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir But, when it becomes a matter of shutting the door against the foe, then the entrance bristles with forbidding caltrops, with stiff, prickly hairs. Bramble-Bees and Others Or to snare stags with cords and caltrops? Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus Had we not the ways filled with poisoned caltrops, guarded by Indian archers, barred with butts full of earth, raked with culverins and arquebuses? Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Arms: Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Numerous deadly bamboo caltrops bristled out of the ground underneath the precarious bamboo bridge that led to a platform whence the house could be reached only by climbing the usual notched pole. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir These animals may also be captured without aid of gin or caltrop, by sheer coursing in hot summer time; they get so tired, they will stand still to be shot down. The Sportsman The dwellings of Man�bos who live in actual fear of attack are always surrounded by traps and by bamboo caltrops of one or two varieties. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir In time of alarm he sets out bamboo caltrops, makes an abatis of fallen trees, and places human spring traps around his lofty house. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir |
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