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scythes
70051
Implements used for mowing grass, grain, or other crops and composed of a long curving blade fastened at an angle to a long handle.
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Arabatchi
70051
Style and culture of the Arabatchi tribe. Typical of the style are rugs characterized by a dark brown field, a part cotton weft and alternate warps which cause the back of the rugs to have a brown and white, speckled appearance.
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bookbinding tools
70051
General term for tools and equipment used for bookbinding.
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biological sciences equipment
70051
Apparatuses or tools used in the context of the division of the natural sciences consisting of those sciences that deal with the organic world, including all aspects of living beings and the systems that sustain them.
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strap-end punches
70051
Tools used to shape the tongues of belts or the end of straps, and save the trouble of cutting an accurate curve by hand.
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clamming hoes
70051
Implements resembling hoes or pitchforks, designed to dig clams out of the sand.
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eelpots
70051
Type of eel traps comprising a container, often woven, with funnel-shaped openings; used for catching eels.
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fish rafts
70051
Floating structures, typically extending below the ordinary high-water mark, designed for fishing.
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fishing tackle
70051
Gear used for fishing, including rod, reel, and bait.
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herring rakes
70051
Devices comprising a long-handled, streamlined board, oar-like in shape, with a lower edge studded with sharp-points upon which fish are impaled when the rake is passed through the water.
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lobster pots
70051
Oblong cases with slat sides and funnel-shaped net used as a trap for catching lobsters.
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harrows
70051
Cultivating implements used primarily for pulverizing or smoothing the soil, sometimes for mulching, covering seed, or removing weeds.
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seeders
70051
In agriculture, a device or machine for sowing seed.
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short handle hoes
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winnowing trays
70051
Flat containers, usually baskets, used in agriculture and ritual to separate grains from other plant material such as chaff.
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ditching spades
70051
Spades designed for digging ditches or troughs that feature handles on their hafts and blades that are slightly wider at the point.
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threshing machines
70051
Harvesting machines used to separate grain from the stalk of a plant.
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animal cages
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papercutting tools
70051
General term for tools and equipment used to cut paper and paper products.
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papermaking tools and equipment
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tobacco rasps
70051
Object used for grating tobacco into snuff.
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parish councils
70051
Councils of a parish, either the local administrative body in a rural civil parish or an ecclesiastical parish.
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pruning saws
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root cutters
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pruning shears
70051
Tools for trimming or cutting back plants in gardening, flower arranging, and tree cultivation. There are various blade designs, which may incorporate two sharpened blades or one blade that meets a flat surface.
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sprayers
70051
Vehicles or attachments to vehicles for spraying liquids as insecticides or fungicides on plants and trees.
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turf edgers
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screw racers
70051
A tool for grooving lines in leather where it is desired to sink stitches below the surface.
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calenders
70051
Stacks of iron rollers used in papermaking to smooth paper or to give it a glossy surface.
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deckles
70051
Handmade papermaking tools which consist of a removable rectangular frame that forms the raised edge of the wire cloth of the mold and holds the stock suspension on the wire.
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papercutting knives
70051
Knife-like devices or sharp rotating wheels for cutting paper.
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glover's needles
70051
Leatherworking needles that have triangular tips with sharpened edges that reach to the point to prevent tearing of the material sewn.
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stopping knives
70051
Knife-like tool used to stretch lead when joining glass pieces or for bedding glass in wooden rebates.
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edge cutters
70051
Hand tools having various types of blades to cut and shape the edge of a piece of leather. For tools to cut a bevel on the edges, use "edge bevelers (leatherworking tools)."
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strap cutters
70051
Tools used for cutting a strip of leather to a uniform width. The gauge of the blade is set and fixed, and when the tool is run down the side of a straight piece of leather it makes a parallel cut further in.
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washer cutters
70051
Compass-like mechanisms for cutting circles of leather.
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magnetic hammers
70051
Hammers with magnetic heads that hold tacks or nails on the head of the hammer as they are struck.
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turn-shoe hammers
70051
Hammers used to smooth inner seams of shoe leather.
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gauge knives
70051
Knives with a gauge or other contrivance on the blade to limit the depth of the cut or the amount cut off. Such knives are most often used for leatherworking, but may be used in other contexts as well, such as in paper production, in the kitchen, and elsewhere.
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soumak
70051
The simplest form of weft wrapping technique in which weft elements repeatedly cross first over or under two or more warp ends, then back under or over half the number one or more, thus progressively encircling all warp ends one or more at a time. The technique is one of the oldest known, identified among charred 7th-c...
300024337
garden spades
70051
Spades with long, narrow blades designed to be used in vegetable gardens to cut soil for holes or for uprooting plants.
300024338
long handle spades
70051
Spades fitted with longer hafts than the normal length of 14-22 inches, and a wider blade rounded to a point.
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rotary tillers
70051
A powered plow-like machine used for breaking up soil by means of rotating blades.
300024352
barley forks
70051
Forks used in harvesting barley and other short-stemmed grains, having a guard where the handle joins the prongs.
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seam rippers
70051
Small tool having a sharp, pointed edge for unpicking sewn stitches.
300023465
seam rolls
70051
Cylindrical pads on which seams can be pressed open.
300023466
sewing clamps
70051
Clamps of metal, wood, or plastic, used to hold work at one end so that it can be stretched.
300023469
sewing needles
70051
Slender, pointed needles designed for sewing, to pierce and draw thread or other fiber through cloth or another flexible material. They generally have one or more holes or eyes at one end for thread to pass through; they are now usually of polished steel.
300023477
tailor tackers
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300023478
tailor's hams
70051
Round or ham-shaped pads for pressing clothing during sewing or maintenance.
300023480
thread clippers
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thread holders
70051
A silver object suspended from the girdle, like a chatelaine, used in 18th century Holland.
300023482
threaders
70051
Devices for threading a needle.
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aniline
70051
Refers to a range of dark bluish or purplish gray colors resembling the color of a dye made from aniline, a coal-tar derivative.
300311108
charcoal
70051
Refers to a range of reddish to bluish grayish or blackish colors resembling the color of charcoal, which is graphitic carbon created from plant material.
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dental instruments
70051
Instruments, tools, and equipment used to care for teeth.
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grants of arms
70051
Documents issued by or on behalf of a sovereign, usually by an official herald, permitting the use of armorial bearings.
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garlands
70051
Term used from the 17th to the 19th centuries in England for chapbooks, usually of eight pages and sometimes with a woodcut title page, containing songs, poems, nursery rhymes and tales. The word "garland" often occurred in the books' titles.
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sticker books
70051
Books, generally intended for children, in which the pages feature illustrations with blank spaces on which to place adhesive stickers; the stickers come with the book either as separate sheets or on leaves of the book.
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plans
70051
Refers to maps depicting a relatively small district or region, such as a town or city, drawn on a large scale and with considerable detail. For maps of larger regions, use "topographic maps" or "chorographic maps." For depictions of smaller plots of land, particularly as related to the planning of architecture, use "s...
300263891
astronomical maps
70051
Refers to maps of the surfaces of planets other than Earth, or the surfaces of moons, suns, or other celestial bodies. Modern maps of this kind are based on coordinate systems analogous to latitude and longitude used on Earth. In most cases, such modern maps are compiled from photographic observations made with Earth-b...
300263892
planispheres
70051
Refers to images depicted on a flat surface, but representing the celestial sphere, which is the stars and constellations as they are located on the apparent hollow sphere of the sky as seen from the surface of the Earth. They appeared in Europe around 1515, though simple depictions of constellations had been known sin...
300263894
great-circle charts
70051
Refers to maps of large areas, often an ocean, depicted in a small scale by gnomonic projection. They are laid out to allow calculation of a great-circle route, which is the shortest course between two points on the surface of the sphere of the Earth.
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àrokò
70051
Strings or other physical combinations of specific objects such as kola nuts, cowrie shells, pieces of textile, chalk, or bark, conveying highly allusive encoded messages. These are used by the Yoruba of West Africa in a symbol communication system.
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frankaa
70051
Appliqué flags of the asafo companies of the Fante people of Ghana; they typically measure about four feet by six feet and carry mirror-image designs.
300264010
trickster tales
70051
Folk tales of mythical figures who are comical or deceitful; the tales are amusing yet also serve to highlight important social values. Typical characters include Br'er Rabbit, Coyote, Til Eulenspiegel, Badger, and Ananse.
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sono
70051
Iron and bronze staffs or scepters of uncertain origin and age, possibly made by the Soninke, Fulani or Fula people. They have been found in Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone. They date possibly to the 17th century.
300249525
animals
70051
Any living organisms, including human beings; may be real or fictional, including mythical or legendary creatures.
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Animalia
70051
Kingdom containing multicellular organisms having cells bound by a plasma membrane and organized into tissue and specialized tissue systems that permit them to either move about in search of food or to draw food toward themselves. Unable to make their own food within themselves, as photosynthetic plants do, they rely o...
300249491
animals by form
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300263704
scorebooks
70051
Books of sheets with preprinted columns and spaces, used to record the statistics of play in games. Use also for electronic versions of the same thing.
300028298
tourist maps
70051
Maps intended to introduce a region or locality to tourists, who are visitors to an unfamiliar place, particularly those who travel for pleasure or culture, usually to visit a number of places with the goal of experiencing places of interest and scenery.
300028242
zoning maps
70051
Maps delineating the boundaries of districts which, along with the zoning text, comprise the zoning ordinances.
300027684
discharges of contracts
70051
Documents attesting to the fulfillment of the terms or conditions of a contract.
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crew lists
70051
Printed documents containing the names, descriptions, and wage information of every member of a ship's company, including the master's name and the ship's name, destination, and tonnage.
300262615
Mediterranean passports
70051
Documents granting permision from a government to the captain or master of a vessel to proceed on a voyage without hindrance, seizure, or molestation from foreign parties with whom there are agreements.
300255366
orderly books
70051
Books kept at the headquarters of a military unit, such as a regiment or company, in which orders received from higher authorities are recorded.
300027876
estate inventories
70051
Lists, catalogs, accounts, or schedules, made by an estate executor or administrator of the tangible and intangible property of the estate, describing the items or classes of property so as to be identifiable and usually placing a value on each.
300027885
legislative records
70051
Records documenting deliberations and decisions of a legislative body.
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county government records
70051
Documents created by county governments including records such as bonds, census reports, court records, land records, estates, marriage records, tax records, wills, etc.
300027937
intergovernmental records
70051
Records in which documents from various governmental jurisdictions are represented.
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municipal government records
70051
Records made or received by the governing body of incorporated localities.
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national government records
70051
Records made or received by an agency of the government of a nation-state and maintained in the conduct of national business.
300256337
Trochilidae
70051
Members of a family containing about 320 species of small, often brightly colored birds native to the Americas. They have compact, strongly muscled bodies and rather long, bladelike wings that, unlike the wings of other birds, connect to the body only from the shoulder joint, allowing them to flap them very fast to hov...
300250072
magpies
70051
General term for several species in four genera of long-tailed gregarious birds of the Corvid family.
300253847
nightingales
70051
General term referring to members of several species in various families of Old World flycatchers and thrushes, having in common that they all frequently sing at night as well as during the day. The term has been used for well over 1,000 years.
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divided contracts
70051
Contracts in which the work of the job is divided into several prime contracts, such as general, mechanical, and electrical, rather than awarded to one contractor.
300251998
Spheniscidae
70051
Members of a family containing six living genera and 17 species of flightless diving seabirds native to the oceans of the southern hemisphere, which have an upright stance on land, mainly black and white plumage, a long bill, and wings reduced to scaly flippers or paddles for swimming under water.
300250036
poultry
70051
General term referring to domestic birds, including chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, etc., which are raised for their flesh, eggs, or feathers, but usually excluding wild game birds.
300250055
raptors
70051
General term referring to all birds of prey of either Falconiformes or Strigiformes orders, including hawks, eagles, vultures, falcons, and owls, having in common a hooked beak, sharp talons, and keen eyesight.
300250089
ravens
70051
General term referring to several species of the genus Corvus, characterized as being heavily billed, dark, intelligent birds. Ravens are distinguished from their close relatives the various species of crows in the genus Corvus in that the raven has a heavier bill and shaggier, more lustrous plumage than the crow, espe...
300250091
robins
70051
General term referring to unrelated brownish birds with red breasts, one a thrush, the American robin (Turdus migratorius), and the other a flycatcher, the European robin (Erithacus rubecula).
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sparrows
70051
General term referring to members of many species in the families Ploceidae, Passeridae, and Fringillidae, that resemble each other and are charaterized as small, chiefly seed-eating birds having conical bills, native to Europe and the New World.
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birds by sex or age
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Sauria
70051
Members of a suborder containing nearly 4,450 species of reptiles having a single temporal opening lying above the bar formed by postorbital and squamosal bones, a pectoral girdle and interorbital septum always present, well-eveloped male copulatory organs (hemipenes) and saclike ovaries in females, often an elongated ...
300255493
Edentata
70051
Formerly used to refer to what was considered an order of mammals characterized by either the complete lack of teeth, or teeth that are small and few, such as in armadillos and anteaters. It was subsequently realized that Edentata was polyphyletic, meaning it contained animals that were actually members of unrelated fa...
300258703
Cynocephalidae
70051
Family containing two genera and two species of flying lemurs, which are nocturnal, arboreal gliding mammals found in South-east Asia. They are about the size of a domestic cat and characterized by lateral skin membranes extending from the forelimbs to the tail, by means of which they make long gliding leaps from tree ...
300249423
jellyfish
70051
General name referring to various marine and fresh-water, free-swimming members of the phylum Cnidaria, belonging to various classes based on different morphology; families include Cubozoa (about 20 species), Scyphozoa (about 200 species), Staurozoa (about 50 species), and Hydrozoa (about 1000-1500 species, all of whic...
300252337
Actiniaria
70051
Members of an order of solitary coelenterate polyps, named after the terrestrial anemone flower and resembling squat columns with a cluster of stinging tentatcles around the mouth, with which they trap small fishes and invertebrates and draw them into the large interior digestive cavity; they are brightly colored, espe...
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Ophiuroidea
70051
Members of a class containing 2,100 living species of marine invertebrates having a body comprising a central round disk from which radiate five long, slender, fragile arms used for locomotion; the arms can be broken off but quickly regenerate.