She hung them on a pole that stretched between two forked posts.

Then she built a brisk fire on the ground in the tepee, and hung a blackened coffeepot on one of the prongs of a forked pole which leaned over the flames.

Here where the heat was almost intolerable and the red tongues sprang like forked daggers before dulled eyes, brutality and hatred alone seemed to reign.

It was the same shape as the larger one, so that the two together formed a double forked cross.

The lower eye of the connecting rod is forked, so as to admit the eye of the air pump rod; and the pin which connects the two together is prolonged into a cross head, as shown in fig.

The forked end of the connecting rod is fixed upon the cross head by means of a feather, so that the cross head partakes of the motion of the connecting rod, and a cap, similar to that attached to the piston rod, is attached to the air pump rod, for connecting it with the cross head.

And yet, after all, man will write poetry, in spite of Mr. Carlyle: nay, beings who are not men, but mere forked radishes, will write it.

Having marched several miles through a well-wooded country, they came to an opening near where the road forked.

While the illustrated papers of Spain were caricaturing: the insurgents as coal-black demons with horns and forked toe nails, burning canefields and butchering innocent Spaniards, the Spanish General chose them for his bodyguards.

Wooden vessels and platters supplied the place of our modern plates and china-ware; and a "tin cup was an article of delicate furniture, almost as rare as an iron-fork," The beds were either placed on the floor, or on bedsteads of puncheons, supported by forked pieces of timber, driven into the ground, or resting on pins let into auger-holes in the sides of the cabin.

She was waiting for the thrilling moment when he should tuck the instrument away under his pendulous double chin and draw his bow across the strings in the long sonorous singing chord, which ran up and down Sylvia's back like forked lightning.

I peeled the shirt off, and Grim rigged it on a frame of basket-work, with a clumsy pitch-forked arrangement of withes at the bottom.

They seldom consist of more than four forked posts planted in the ground, supporting a roof of paja or thatch.

The dogs had entered a patch of tall tree jungle, and as we cantered up through the marsh we saw the jaguar high among the forked limbs of a taruman tree.

From any motor whatever, the frame, E, receives a double to and fro motion in a horizontal and vertical direction, the latter of which is produced by the rods, f, which are provided at their lower, forked extremity with rollers, e, over which passes the piece, d, that supports the frame, E.

NM: introd., Men at Work & Forked Lightning.

If plant food be given it must be forked in lightly, as the Aster is very shallow-rooting, and it should be discontinued when the buds appear.

It should be forked in directly it is put upon the ground.

Superphosphate of lime mixed with a small amount of nitrate of soda and forked into the ground is also a fine manure, but is more expensive than that made from lime and salt.

These succeed best in a rich soil, but the application of fresh manure should be avoided, as it induces forked and ill-shaped roots.

The manure may be forked into the soil in the spring.

Some growers give supports to the fruit by means of forked-shaped pegs, while others lay straw down to keep the fruit free from grit.

Creeping cautiously up, and peering through the brush, he saw something the height of a stump between two forked trees.

When there was need, the pioneer could of course make a rough pack-saddle for himself, working it up from two forked branches of a tree.

"Yo' see de forked tree dar on de lef'?" I was not sure, yet there was something in that direction which might be what he described.