1.any of the stiff sensory hairs growing on the face of a cat, rat, or other mammal 2.any light spar used for extending the clews of a sail, esp in light airs 3.Chema very fine filamentary crystal having greater strength than the bulk material since it is a single crystal. Such crys...
Usually spars are attached to a mast to support a sail or awhisker polefor extending the jibe when sailing downwind. cordis Only one spinnakerpoleorwhisker poleshall be used at a time except when gybing. ParaCrawl Corpus The first impression is that thewhisker poleis a good investment for dow...
The lower part of the tip may include a top edge.The support section may include a curved dome (22) and a glove strong (32) extending to the top of this.The curved dome can snuggle up to the upper end of the pole to provide a connection of the ball and pedestal between the tip ...
6.any spar for extending the clew or clews of a sail so that it can catch more wind. Idioms: by a whisker,by the narrowest margin. [1400–50; late Middle English: fan, brush; seewhisk,-er1] whisk′ered,adj. whisk′er•y,adj. ...
Too Long; Didn't ReadIt was near the close of day that a travelling calèche, coming from Rome, was seen approaching at full gallop towards Mola di Gaeta. The road leading to the inn is rocky and narrow; on one side is an orange grove, extending to the sea; on the other, an old ...
and a half kilometers beneath the surface and extending downward another kilometer. The telescope has to be this big because neutrino collisions with matter are exceedingly rare: out of uncounted trillions of neutrinos constantly passing through the ice, IceCube will observe just a few hundred a ...