Another bit through his sock, raked teeth down his ankle.

The hard, dense wood has been used for products such as golf club heads, mallets, wooden rake teeth, tool handles, jeweler's boxes and butcher's blocks.

The twins re- mained perfectly still, unmindful of the martels-de-fers's spikes and the raking teeth of tigers claws.

A slow series of still lifes and drab interiors, set to gentle piano music, are interrupted at intervals by poltergeisty action - crashing plates and insinuations of violence - until all the stuff in the house, from the dismal décor to the rake teeth in the front yard, becomes dangerous, disloyal.