Sentence examples for standing grain from inspiring English sources

Hussey was the first to obtain a patent (1833), but McCormick's reaper had the advantages of a divider to separate cut and standing grain and a revolving reel to topple the cut grain onto the rear of the machine, where it could be raked off onto the ground and later tied.

godhūma "wheat" [4/17]: Proto-Dravidian *kōlum "grain" DEDR 1906 ← Proto-Zagrosian *kōlum "grain", cf. Proto-Elamite *ǩōlum, Elamite šulum "standing grain", Brahui xōlum "wheat", probably borrowed into Indo-Aryan as *kōlum and subsequently modified folk-etymologically (see Witzel 1999 for a different view);   7.

A final development has taken place since the sixteenth century, especially in northeast Germany, the Bilwis has been conceived of as a grain spirit bringing wealth; yet this latest manifestation of the Bilwis has its harmful side, the Bilwis-cutter, who is blamed for the unexplained patters that are formed among the rows of standing grain.

This is strongly related to the grain-type surface morphology of Ag-covered L-CVD SnO2 nanolayers with the grains standing up in respect to the surface plane, as observed in the AFM image shown in Figure 2. Figure 2 AFM image of the Ag-covered L-CVD SnO 2 nanolayers.

For the duration of the show, Abramović was present, but the audience were the exhibits; standing still, counting grains of rice, sitting in silence.

Those grains standing proud of the surface invariably contained extensive dislocation damage.

The natural stone sampled on the Church facade (see blue square in Figure 1) is a dacitic to rhyolitic welded ignimbrite, pink to violet in colour in hand specimen with white grains standing up from the matrix.

This larger number of αWGB colonies was a consequence of faster formation along β/β GB of their precursors, the allotriomorphic αGB grains (standing for α-GB) at lower transformation temperatures, as evidenced by detailed examination of the first stages of αGB formation.

The owners have replacement workers standing by to export grain to Asia.

While riding, he has fended off an occasional threat from fellow travelers, he said, and once abruptly exited a grain car standing in a train yard after he encountered a large possum holed up inside.

Eades isn't afraid to stand apart from the crowd in favor of being an individual, quoting Joey Ramone on punk rock leadership: "To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am.'" As the person who calls the meeting, you have the opportunity to set the tone.