The Latin name Carpinus has been thought to be derived from the Celtic car, wood, and pin or pen, head, the wood of hornbeams having been used for yokes of cattle (see Loudon, Ency. [Please select]
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Hence, the Greeks call it "zygia," because they make of it yokes for their draught-animals, and their word for yoke is [Greek: zyga]. [Please select]
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We should not have had food in abundance unless yokes and ploughs for oxen, and for all draught animals, had been invented. [Please select]
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Column forms, like wall forms, are rarely computed, yokes being spaced 2 ft. [Please select]
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Bolts at B and C permit the yokes to be collapsed and the form to be shifted ahead as the work advances. [Please select]
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In this construction lagging boards the full length of the column are used and are held without nails by yokes. [Please select]
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In place of rectangular yokes, steel clamps of special form are used to hold the lagging in place. [Please select]
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180 is an extreme example of nailed construction throughout, no yokes or clamps being used. [Please select]
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Six pairs of yokes were used for each column so that the yoke spacing was about 2 ft. [Please select]
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The lagging in the form of staves forms a 24-sided polygon and is held in position by hoops and yokes. [Please select]
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We had to cross two or three rivers where big cream-colored oxen with yokes tied to their horns pulled the automobiles through the water. [Please select]
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