Sentence examples for implements called from inspiring English sources

The slender, curved implements called "lissoirs" were shaped from deer ribs and likely used to work animal hides to make them softer, tougher and more waterproof.

Looked at garden implements called Rotavater, Rototiller, and a Hoffco power unit to which can be attached a Scythette, a Sawette, or a Trimette.

Athletes oiled and dusted their bodies before competing, and afterward — in an act that had a name: apoxyomenos — scraped themselves clean with curved metal implements called strigils, which appear often in vase paintings.

Until the late nineteenth century, sugar was purchased in loaves, which had to be cut using implements called Sugar nips.

Nurse Terry praised a plumbing implement called "Paul's Tubing" for safe relief on motorways.

Purists take the austere route favoured by the Scots – oatmeal, water, salt, preferably stirred in a clockwise direction with a wooden implement called a spurtle.

Solid chocolate is broken up into a tall earthenware or ceramic pot of boiling water and beaten with an intricately carved wooden implement called a molinillo, which is twirled between the hands.

Traditionally, whole rice was milled in a mortar-like implement called a pila; this was operated by a pilota.

Three different methods were implemented, called C1, C2 and C3, with different sensitivity levels, whereas this study adopts C3, the one with the highest sensitivity, to compare with our proposed method.

State environmental officials said a long-term plan, which could take two more decades to implement, calls for building enough fish passages to allow Connecticut's official state fish, the shad, to reclaim all its historic territory.

A bifacial cutting implement emerged, called a hand axe, that had longer, straighter, sharper edges than the earlier chopper.