KeeganC/aat-preferred-terms · Datasets at Hugging Face

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300022904	hand knives	70051	General term for knives held in the hand while used, typically having a hand grip, rather than being mounted in a device.
300022905	hawkbill knives	70051	Knives having a blade shaped like a thick claw or raptor's bill, with a concave cutting edge. These blades cut primarily by a pulling or raking motion. They have both martial and utilitarian uses, such as in leatherworking, electrician's work, pruning, and other occupations.
300263064	sky	70051	The apparent arch or vault above the surface of the earth as perceived by those standing on the surface, whether covered with clouds or clear and blue.
300263098	display easels	70051	Easels used primarily or solely for the display or presentation of an object, rather than to support a work as it is created.
300263099	suppedions	70051	Cushions placed under the feet of an important person, as a sign of status and holiness.
300263101	étagères dressoirs	70051	Tall sets of shelves mounted on low dressers.
300263109	planets	70051	Large natural objects that orbit a star or a stellar remnant. Planets are not radiating energy from internal nuclear fusion reactions, are not a brown dwarfs, and are bigger than an asteroid. Planets are large enough to have become round due to the force of their own gravity, and dominate the neighborhood around their orbit, and are thus distinguished from dwarf planets.
300263111	tall stools	70051	Stools having very tall legs or other supports, designed for sitting at a counter or other high table-like surface.
300263113	lamp mats	70051	Mats, doilies, or other small coverings placed on a table to protect it from a table lamp, which is placed upon it.
300263125	medal cabinets	70051	Cabinets of various designs, intended for the storage and display of medals; popular in 18th-19th centuries.
300263178	advertising agencies	70051	Businesses that offer services in advertising, branding, marketing, and promotion.
300263179	building trades	70051	Fields in the building and construction industries requiring specialized knowledge. These fields may include carpentry, masonry, electricity, heating, ventilation, and plumbing.
300263186	biblical	70051	Of, relating to, or contained in the Bible, which contains the sacred scriptures of Judaism or Christianity.
300263187	Academic	70051	Having to do with the ancient philosophers of the Academy, which was the school of Plato and his followers, founded by Plato in ca. 387 BCE in Athens.
300263252	opus romanum	70051	Facing technique producing a mixture of square and rectangular stones or bricks. The term is also sometimes used for any of several other patterns of laying flat masonry in what was considered the 'Roman manner.'
300263365	World Wide Web	70051	A part of the Internet containing documents stored in various locations worldwide and which are cross-referenced using hypertext links, accessed through a graphical user interface.
300174226	longitudinal ridge ribs	70051	Stone ribs running longitudinally, running lengthwise in or parallel to the long axis of the aisle or nave, across the top of a vault.
300174227	transverse ridge ribs	70051	Stone ribs running transversely, that is, spanning crosswise at right angles to the longitudinal (lengthwise) axis across the top of a vault.
300024309	feed mills	null	null
300024323	cultivators	70051	Refers to both hand tools and large horse- or tractor-drawn vehicles that usually consist of a frame upon which is fastened shares, discs, or tines used for breaking up the surface of soil.
300024330	garden hoes	null	null
300027919	House of Commons bills	70051	Texts of legislative initiatives that a Minister of the Crown submits to Parliament to be approved, and possibly amended, before becoming law.
300124499	House of Lords bills	70051	Private bills brought from the House of Lords to the House of Commons.
300028339	bathymetric maps	70051	Charts depicting accurate, measurable features of underwater terrain.
300023524	circular needles	70051	Flexible needles with a point on each end; used for knitting a seamless tube.
300024303	farm tractors	null	null
300024304	garden tractors	null	null
300393236	anthotypes	70051	Photographs produced by using photosensitive plant material. An emulsion of crushed flower petals or light-sensitive plants, fruit, or vegetables is created, then spread onto a sheet of paper and dried. The material to be imaged is placed on the paper and exposed to direct sunlight. The technique to create anthotypes was discovered by Sir John Frederick William Herschel ca. 1842.
300393237	microfadeometers	70051	Instruments that measure color changes and evaluate light stability in individual objects of art that are sensitive to light exposure.
300393239	șehrengiz	70051	Genre of Ottoman poetry that describes and honors beautiful people of a city or provincial town. The genre was most popular 16th-18th centuries.
300393240	Gilded Age	70051	A period in United States history following the U.S. Civil War and characterized by industrialization, political corruption, globalization, mass immigration, Western expansion, and widespread cultural and artistic activity. Historians generally agree that the Gilded Age lasted from about 1865 to around 1900.
300393241	doughboys	70051	Sculptures or statues in the United States that represent U.S. soldiers from World War I. The sculptures were commissioned around the country and are nameless.
300024500	chemistry equipment	70051	Artifacts originally created to be used in the study and/or manufacture of substances based on their composition, structure, and molecular properties.
300393253	world religions	70051	General term for organized belief systems having large numbers of adherents world-wide. The twelve religions typically included among the world religions are the following: Baha'i, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism.
300023515	warp-weighted looms	70051	Looms in which the warp threads are kept taut by weights.
300023534	bobbin winders	70051	Devices used for producing bobbins that are evenly covered with yarn, used to wind thread or yarn around a bobbin. These usually include a fixed shaft that is rotated continously, distributing the thread uniformly onto the mounted bobbin.
300024431	dragnets	70051	Fishing nets of various types which are pulled through a body of water, or just above the bottom of the sea or a lake bed, in order to capture fish and other aquatic creatures.
300227817	cut pile	70051	Pile having cut ends instead of loops.
300227804	complementary warp	70051	One of two or more sets of warp that are equally part of the basic weave structure.
300227805	complementary weft	70051	One of two more sets of weft that are equally part of the basic weave structure.
300264209	Masonic bindings	70051	Bindings in a style made from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, with decoration featuring Masonic symbols tooled in gold.
300024316	grain riddles	70051	Devices for separating grain from the chaff, that employ a riddle, which is a coarse-meshed sieve formed of cross pieces of wires or stiff fiber, supported on circular rim with a base shaped like a shallow drum.
300026570	key-word-out-of-context indexes	70051	Indexes in which each significant word in an entry is separated from the entry on separate lines of their own, with the full entry in original order under them.
300026574	key-word-out-of-title indexes	70051	Indexes computer generated by ABACUS (AB Atomic Energy Computerized User-oriented Service), the result of a collaboration between the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and AB Atomenergi, Sweden.
300026583	newspaper indexes	70051	Indexes to information printed in newpapers.
300028024	school yearbooks	70051	Annual publications by schools that provide information and often photographs relating to activities and the students at the school during the previous year.
300101057	letterpress copybooks	70051	Volumes containing reproductions of correspondence, made directly from originals through a transfer process. Using a screw-powered letter press in conjunction with a press book, a bound volume of blank, tissue paper pages. Letters written in special copying ink were placed on a dampened page. The book was then closed and the mechanical press screwed down tightly, causing the ink to be transferred to the bound page.
300026884	encyclicals	70051	Letters intended for wide or general circulation.
300027247	land registers	70051	Official lists kept by government agencies or departments in which information concerning land ownership, possession, or rights are recorded to provide evidence of title or transaction.
300027251	mortgage deeds	70051	Deeds embodying a mortgage.
300027399	birth certificates	70051	Formal documents certifying the date and place of persons' births and their parentage, as issued by an official in charge of such records.
300027401	birth registers	70051	Official lists of recorded births, including details considered sufficiently important to be formally noted, and maintained in a regular manner.
300024406	fishing equipment	null	null
300024503	geophysical instruments	null	null
300024341	harvesting equipment	null	null
300022909	skiving knives	70051	Knives of various designs used to split or pare leather.
300023497	knitting machines	70051	Semi- for fully-mechanized devices comprising an assemblage of needles on which flat or tubular garments can be knitted. To facilitate the knitting process, an open toe circle of fabric is held on the device's split dial, which automatically folds over to transfer and double-up the loops onto half of the dial for loop-to-loop linking. These devices come in myriad models, varing in degrees of complexity. Depending on the device model, knitting pattern stitches can be selected by hand manipulation of the needles, push-bottons and dials, mechanical punch cards, or electronic pattern reading devices and computers.
300023498	lace pillows	70051	Pillows on which a certain type of lace is made.
300266292	hard disks	70051	Digital electromagnetic storage medium comprised of a rigid disk, having a large storage capacity. For devices that hard disks are housed in, sometimes in series, and in conjunction with a read/write armature use "hard drives." To generally refer to computer data storage devices that use disk storage media, either fixed or removeable, use "disk drives."
300266303	ROM	70051	Computer memory that contains fixed information, such as a program, that does not change, and cannot be written to, only read from.
300266304	rare books	70051	Books that are valuable due to their actual or prospective rarity, specifically books distinguished by an early publication date, limited issue, historical interest, or a special characteristic of the edition or binding, for example having been signed by the artist or containing special illustrations. This designation typically includes books that are collected by a special collections department, archives, or museum, as opposed to books that are available to casual readers on the shelves of a public library.
300266313	hairwork jewelry	70051	A type of mourning jewelry that incorporates human hair in its manufacture. Usually refers to intricately woven or braided strands, set in gold and made into bracelets, necklaces or watch fobs.
300022950	round-hole punches	70051	Punches used for cutting round holes in leather.
300022951	stamp punches	70051	Punches used to impress decorative designs onto the surface of leather or other materials.
300241994	hallmarking	70051	The activity of impressing official stamps (hallmarks) onto articles of gold and silver for security and decoration. Traditionally, hallmarks have been applied manually with steel punches. Laser hallmarking is used as an alternative, in particular to avoid bruising items.
300022912	square-point knives	70051	Knives having a squared-off tip; used primarily for trimming up and cutting new leather.
300022915	swivel knives	70051	Small knives comprising a blade mounted on a pivot, often having a saddle for a finger-rest. Such knives are used most often in leatherworking, but also in other occupations, including historically in surgery.
300022916	ulus	70051	Knives with semicircular blades, sometimes fitted with slotted wooden or ivory handles, historically used as a multi-purpose tool by Eskimo women.
300022917	unhairing knives	70051	Knives used in the depilation of leather; often having a handle on each end of a curved blade.
300022784	pug mills	70051	Machine which mixes materials of the clay body, shreds or kneads it, and disperses air bubbles.
300022786	blungers	70051	Mixing machines fitted with paddles or propellers, used to prepare clay slips and glazes.
300022800	stilts	70051	Small, three pronged supports made of hard-fired clay or metal and used to lift clay objects off kiln shelves during firing.
300022804	fettling knives	70051	Sharp tool with flexible, tapered blade; used for carving.
300264210	freight	70051	Goods in transit, whether by land, air, or water.
300023525	double-pointed needles	70051	Knitting needles with points or hooks at each end used in either hand or machine knitting to create more complicated constructions.
300023426	hatchels	70051	Instruments, often in the form of a comb or board, with sharp pins or teeth for the manual disentanglement of scutched hemp or flax fibers.
300023456	pin-poppets	70051	Cylindrical cases to hold pins.
300161434	sewing scissors	70051	Scissors, which comprise a pair of pivoted blades attached to handles, designed for tasks involved in sewing, including cutting thread and clipping seams. For scissors to cut lengths of fabric, use "sewing shears."
300023441	burling irons	70051	Pointed tweezers for lifting knots from wool, so that their luster is not lost by handling them.
300262581	Old Testament	70051	General term for the period and culture of the Middle East as described in the Biblical Old Testament.
300262597	nyais	70051	Women who were part of the colonial Dutch household in the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia); they were kept as housekeepers, companions, and concubines.
300262621	simars	70051	Robes or loose light garments worn with a short cape or scarf over the shoulders; worn by clergy.
300022820	potter's wheels	70051	Devices with a rotating flat disc or turntable on which clay may be shaped to create symmetrical forms; the process of forming clay objects on a potter's wheel is throwing.
300023511	bow looms	70051	Simple hand looms consisting of a pliable branch bent in a semicircle, between the two arms of which the longer threads are stretched.
300023512	inkle looms	70051	Handlooms used for weaving long strips of braid.
300023513	frame looms	70051	Handloom used for weaving rectangles of fabric, used vertically. Yarn is wound across nails in the frame, and weaving sticks are used to form sheds.
300023514	table looms	70051	Looms fitted with rollers so that considerable lengths of fabric may be woven.
300023493	latch hooks	70051	Hand tools that take the yarn through the canvas and bring it back to the surface; used for knotting rugs.
300242002	strain cracking	70051	Condition where a surface or material has cracked due to pressure, differential in temperature, or other strain of some kind. An example is in glassmaking, where fissures develop in the body of a vessel caused by internal strain resulting from inadequate annealing and/or accidental thermal shock.
300216653	purificators	70051	Relatively small, rectangular linen cloths used by the celebrant for wiping the Eucharistic vessel after each communicant has drunk from it and to wipe the chalice and paten after the ablutions that follow Communion.
300253568	high-occupancy vehicle lanes	70051	Highway lanes restricted to vehicles transporting a driver and multiple passengers. Used as a tool for traffic management.
300253565	horse ranches	70051	Ranches dedicated primarly to raising horses.
300253566	margarine factories	70051	Facilities for making margarine, allowing for the processes of emulsifying a blend of vegetable oils and fats, which can be modified using fractionation, interesterification or hydrogenation, with skimmed milk.
300253562	movie palaces	70051	Cinemas with ornate architecture and interior decoration, emerging in the 1920s. The exterior of the movie palace is often outfitted with a marquee and an upright, showcasing the cinema's name.
300253567	retail parks	70051	Out-of-town shopping developments, usually containing a number of large chain stores.
300022963	skiving machines	70051	Machines used in paring or thinning leather or skins. These involve feeding the material through rollers toward a knife edge, and were first operated mechanically via a crank, though now they are often automated.
300022965	slickers	70051	Leatherworking hand tools used for burnishing or scraping the surface of skins.
300022966	sole scrapers	70051	Tools for roughening the surface of leather or other materials, such as the soles of shoes before they are cemented. Farriers and woodworkers may use this tool for varied tasks.
300043156	bonbon spoons	70051	Spoons having a round bowl used for scooping bonbons from a bowl. The bowl may be pierced, for use with bonbons in liquids.
300043165	porringer spoons	70051	Spoons designed to serve soup, stews, or similar dishes from a porringer, which is a small bowl or basin, typically with a handle.

300022904

hand knives

70051

General term for knives held in the hand while used, typically having a hand grip, rather than being mounted in a device.

300022905

hawkbill knives

70051

Knives having a blade shaped like a thick claw or raptor's bill, with a concave cutting edge. These blades cut primarily by a pulling or raking motion. They have both martial and utilitarian uses, such as in leatherworking, electrician's work, pruning, and other occupations.

300263064

sky

70051

The apparent arch or vault above the surface of the earth as perceived by those standing on the surface, whether covered with clouds or clear and blue.

300263098

display easels

70051

Easels used primarily or solely for the display or presentation of an object, rather than to support a work as it is created.

300263099

suppedions

70051

Cushions placed under the feet of an important person, as a sign of status and holiness.

300263101

étagères dressoirs

70051

Tall sets of shelves mounted on low dressers.

300263109

planets

70051

Large natural objects that orbit a star or a stellar remnant. Planets are not radiating energy from internal nuclear fusion reactions, are not a brown dwarfs, and are bigger than an asteroid. Planets are large enough to have become round due to the force of their own gravity, and dominate the neighborhood around their orbit, and are thus distinguished from dwarf planets.

300263111

tall stools

70051

Stools having very tall legs or other supports, designed for sitting at a counter or other high table-like surface.

300263113

lamp mats

70051

Mats, doilies, or other small coverings placed on a table to protect it from a table lamp, which is placed upon it.

300263125

medal cabinets

70051

Cabinets of various designs, intended for the storage and display of medals; popular in 18th-19th centuries.

300263178

advertising agencies

70051

Businesses that offer services in advertising, branding, marketing, and promotion.

300263179

building trades

70051

Fields in the building and construction industries requiring specialized knowledge. These fields may include carpentry, masonry, electricity, heating, ventilation, and plumbing.

300263186

biblical

70051

Of, relating to, or contained in the Bible, which contains the sacred scriptures of Judaism or Christianity.

300263187

Academic

70051

Having to do with the ancient philosophers of the Academy, which was the school of Plato and his followers, founded by Plato in ca. 387 BCE in Athens.

300263252

opus romanum

70051

Facing technique producing a mixture of square and rectangular stones or bricks. The term is also sometimes used for any of several other patterns of laying flat masonry in what was considered the 'Roman manner.'

300263365

World Wide Web

70051

A part of the Internet containing documents stored in various locations worldwide and which are cross-referenced using hypertext links, accessed through a graphical user interface.

300174226

longitudinal ridge ribs

70051

Stone ribs running longitudinally, running lengthwise in or parallel to the long axis of the aisle or nave, across the top of a vault.

300174227

transverse ridge ribs

70051

Stone ribs running transversely, that is, spanning crosswise at right angles to the longitudinal (lengthwise) axis across the top of a vault.

300024309

feed mills

null

300024323

cultivators

70051

Refers to both hand tools and large horse- or tractor-drawn vehicles that usually consist of a frame upon which is fastened shares, discs, or tines used for breaking up the surface of soil.

300024330

garden hoes

null

300027919

House of Commons bills

70051

Texts of legislative initiatives that a Minister of the Crown submits to Parliament to be approved, and possibly amended, before becoming law.

300124499

House of Lords bills

70051

Private bills brought from the House of Lords to the House of Commons.

300028339

bathymetric maps

70051

Charts depicting accurate, measurable features of underwater terrain.

300023524

circular needles

70051

Flexible needles with a point on each end; used for knitting a seamless tube.

300024303

farm tractors

null

300024304

garden tractors

null

300393236

anthotypes

70051

Photographs produced by using photosensitive plant material. An emulsion of crushed flower petals or light-sensitive plants, fruit, or vegetables is created, then spread onto a sheet of paper and dried. The material to be imaged is placed on the paper and exposed to direct sunlight. The technique to create anthotypes was discovered by Sir John Frederick William Herschel ca. 1842.

300393237

microfadeometers

70051

Instruments that measure color changes and evaluate light stability in individual objects of art that are sensitive to light exposure.

300393239

șehrengiz

70051

Genre of Ottoman poetry that describes and honors beautiful people of a city or provincial town. The genre was most popular 16th-18th centuries.

300393240

Gilded Age

70051

A period in United States history following the U.S. Civil War and characterized by industrialization, political corruption, globalization, mass immigration, Western expansion, and widespread cultural and artistic activity. Historians generally agree that the Gilded Age lasted from about 1865 to around 1900.

300393241

doughboys

70051

Sculptures or statues in the United States that represent U.S. soldiers from World War I. The sculptures were commissioned around the country and are nameless.

300024500

chemistry equipment

70051

Artifacts originally created to be used in the study and/or manufacture of substances based on their composition, structure, and molecular properties.

300393253

world religions

70051

General term for organized belief systems having large numbers of adherents world-wide. The twelve religions typically included among the world religions are the following: Baha'i, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism.

300023515

warp-weighted looms

70051

Looms in which the warp threads are kept taut by weights.

300023534

bobbin winders

70051

Devices used for producing bobbins that are evenly covered with yarn, used to wind thread or yarn around a bobbin. These usually include a fixed shaft that is rotated continously, distributing the thread uniformly onto the mounted bobbin.

300024431

dragnets

70051

Fishing nets of various types which are pulled through a body of water, or just above the bottom of the sea or a lake bed, in order to capture fish and other aquatic creatures.

300227817

cut pile

70051

Pile having cut ends instead of loops.

300227804

complementary warp

70051

One of two or more sets of warp that are equally part of the basic weave structure.

300227805

complementary weft

70051

One of two more sets of weft that are equally part of the basic weave structure.

300264209

Masonic bindings

70051

Bindings in a style made from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, with decoration featuring Masonic symbols tooled in gold.

300024316

grain riddles

70051

Devices for separating grain from the chaff, that employ a riddle, which is a coarse-meshed sieve formed of cross pieces of wires or stiff fiber, supported on circular rim with a base shaped like a shallow drum.

300026570

key-word-out-of-context indexes

70051

Indexes in which each significant word in an entry is separated from the entry on separate lines of their own, with the full entry in original order under them.

300026574

key-word-out-of-title indexes

70051

Indexes computer generated by ABACUS (AB Atomic Energy Computerized User-oriented Service), the result of a collaboration between the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and AB Atomenergi, Sweden.

300026583

newspaper indexes

70051

Indexes to information printed in newpapers.

300028024

school yearbooks

70051

Annual publications by schools that provide information and often photographs relating to activities and the students at the school during the previous year.

300101057

letterpress copybooks

70051

Volumes containing reproductions of correspondence, made directly from originals through a transfer process. Using a screw-powered letter press in conjunction with a press book, a bound volume of blank, tissue paper pages. Letters written in special copying ink were placed on a dampened page. The book was then closed and the mechanical press screwed down tightly, causing the ink to be transferred to the bound page.

300026884

encyclicals

70051

Letters intended for wide or general circulation.

300027247

land registers

70051

Official lists kept by government agencies or departments in which information concerning land ownership, possession, or rights are recorded to provide evidence of title or transaction.

300027251

mortgage deeds

70051

Deeds embodying a mortgage.

300027399

birth certificates

70051

Formal documents certifying the date and place of persons' births and their parentage, as issued by an official in charge of such records.

300027401

birth registers

70051

Official lists of recorded births, including details considered sufficiently important to be formally noted, and maintained in a regular manner.

300024406

fishing equipment

null

300024503

geophysical instruments

null

300024341

harvesting equipment

null

300022909

skiving knives

70051

Knives of various designs used to split or pare leather.

300023497

knitting machines

70051

Semi- for fully-mechanized devices comprising an assemblage of needles on which flat or tubular garments can be knitted. To facilitate the knitting process, an open toe circle of fabric is held on the device's split dial, which automatically folds over to transfer and double-up the loops onto half of the dial for loop-to-loop linking. These devices come in myriad models, varing in degrees of complexity. Depending on the device model, knitting pattern stitches can be selected by hand manipulation of the needles, push-bottons and dials, mechanical punch cards, or electronic pattern reading devices and computers.

300023498

lace pillows

70051

Pillows on which a certain type of lace is made.

300266292

hard disks

70051

Digital electromagnetic storage medium comprised of a rigid disk, having a large storage capacity. For devices that hard disks are housed in, sometimes in series, and in conjunction with a read/write armature use "hard drives." To generally refer to computer data storage devices that use disk storage media, either fixed or removeable, use "disk drives."

300266303

ROM

70051

Computer memory that contains fixed information, such as a program, that does not change, and cannot be written to, only read from.

300266304

rare books

70051

Books that are valuable due to their actual or prospective rarity, specifically books distinguished by an early publication date, limited issue, historical interest, or a special characteristic of the edition or binding, for example having been signed by the artist or containing special illustrations. This designation typically includes books that are collected by a special collections department, archives, or museum, as opposed to books that are available to casual readers on the shelves of a public library.

300266313

hairwork jewelry

70051

A type of mourning jewelry that incorporates human hair in its manufacture. Usually refers to intricately woven or braided strands, set in gold and made into bracelets, necklaces or watch fobs.

300022950

round-hole punches

70051

Punches used for cutting round holes in leather.

300022951

stamp punches

70051

Punches used to impress decorative designs onto the surface of leather or other materials.

300241994

hallmarking

70051

The activity of impressing official stamps (hallmarks) onto articles of gold and silver for security and decoration. Traditionally, hallmarks have been applied manually with steel punches. Laser hallmarking is used as an alternative, in particular to avoid bruising items.

300022912

square-point knives

70051

Knives having a squared-off tip; used primarily for trimming up and cutting new leather.

300022915

swivel knives

70051

Small knives comprising a blade mounted on a pivot, often having a saddle for a finger-rest. Such knives are used most often in leatherworking, but also in other occupations, including historically in surgery.

300022916

ulus

70051

Knives with semicircular blades, sometimes fitted with slotted wooden or ivory handles, historically used as a multi-purpose tool by Eskimo women.

300022917

unhairing knives

70051

Knives used in the depilation of leather; often having a handle on each end of a curved blade.

300022784

pug mills

70051

Machine which mixes materials of the clay body, shreds or kneads it, and disperses air bubbles.

300022786

blungers

70051

Mixing machines fitted with paddles or propellers, used to prepare clay slips and glazes.

300022800

stilts

70051

Small, three pronged supports made of hard-fired clay or metal and used to lift clay objects off kiln shelves during firing.

300022804

fettling knives

70051

Sharp tool with flexible, tapered blade; used for carving.

300264210

freight

70051

Goods in transit, whether by land, air, or water.

300023525

double-pointed needles

70051

Knitting needles with points or hooks at each end used in either hand or machine knitting to create more complicated constructions.

300023426

hatchels

70051

Instruments, often in the form of a comb or board, with sharp pins or teeth for the manual disentanglement of scutched hemp or flax fibers.

300023456

pin-poppets

70051

Cylindrical cases to hold pins.

300161434

sewing scissors

70051

Scissors, which comprise a pair of pivoted blades attached to handles, designed for tasks involved in sewing, including cutting thread and clipping seams. For scissors to cut lengths of fabric, use "sewing shears."

300023441

burling irons

70051

Pointed tweezers for lifting knots from wool, so that their luster is not lost by handling them.

300262581

Old Testament

70051

General term for the period and culture of the Middle East as described in the Biblical Old Testament.

300262597

nyais

70051

Women who were part of the colonial Dutch household in the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia); they were kept as housekeepers, companions, and concubines.

300262621

simars

70051

Robes or loose light garments worn with a short cape or scarf over the shoulders; worn by clergy.

300022820

potter's wheels

70051

Devices with a rotating flat disc or turntable on which clay may be shaped to create symmetrical forms; the process of forming clay objects on a potter's wheel is throwing.

300023511

bow looms

70051

Simple hand looms consisting of a pliable branch bent in a semicircle, between the two arms of which the longer threads are stretched.

300023512

inkle looms

70051

Handlooms used for weaving long strips of braid.

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frame looms

70051

Handloom used for weaving rectangles of fabric, used vertically. Yarn is wound across nails in the frame, and weaving sticks are used to form sheds.

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table looms

70051

Looms fitted with rollers so that considerable lengths of fabric may be woven.

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latch hooks

70051

Hand tools that take the yarn through the canvas and bring it back to the surface; used for knotting rugs.

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strain cracking

70051

Condition where a surface or material has cracked due to pressure, differential in temperature, or other strain of some kind. An example is in glassmaking, where fissures develop in the body of a vessel caused by internal strain resulting from inadequate annealing and/or accidental thermal shock.

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purificators

70051

Relatively small, rectangular linen cloths used by the celebrant for wiping the Eucharistic vessel after each communicant has drunk from it and to wipe the chalice and paten after the ablutions that follow Communion.

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high-occupancy vehicle lanes

70051

Highway lanes restricted to vehicles transporting a driver and multiple passengers. Used as a tool for traffic management.

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horse ranches

70051

Ranches dedicated primarly to raising horses.

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margarine factories

70051

Facilities for making margarine, allowing for the processes of emulsifying a blend of vegetable oils and fats, which can be modified using fractionation, interesterification or hydrogenation, with skimmed milk.

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movie palaces

70051

Cinemas with ornate architecture and interior decoration, emerging in the 1920s. The exterior of the movie palace is often outfitted with a marquee and an upright, showcasing the cinema's name.

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retail parks

70051

Out-of-town shopping developments, usually containing a number of large chain stores.

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skiving machines

70051

Machines used in paring or thinning leather or skins. These involve feeding the material through rollers toward a knife edge, and were first operated mechanically via a crank, though now they are often automated.

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slickers

70051

Leatherworking hand tools used for burnishing or scraping the surface of skins.

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sole scrapers

70051

Tools for roughening the surface of leather or other materials, such as the soles of shoes before they are cemented. Farriers and woodworkers may use this tool for varied tasks.

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bonbon spoons

70051

Spoons having a round bowl used for scooping bonbons from a bowl. The bowl may be pierced, for use with bonbons in liquids.

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porringer spoons

70051

Spoons designed to serve soup, stews, or similar dishes from a porringer, which is a small bowl or basin, typically with a handle.