whiffletree , także: whippletree
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The other nun pointed and snapped, "Young man, you get off that whiffletree this instant!

A huge bat flew down, landed on the whiffletree, and turned into a leering vampire.

A whippletree or whiffletree is a mechanism to distribute force evenly through linkages.

Previously it had been located east of the Whiffletree and featured high-speed tracks with a large hill at the base to slow the tubes.

To position the ball, both of the pulleys on the left side of the frame are moved by the whiffletree linkage.

They opened up the area that is now called Whiffletree and King Pine Bowl.

She smiled at me, mighty pretty, and I turned away from that table with my head whirling like somebody had hit me with a whiffletree.

It services beginner to intermediate terrain, such as Whiffletree, Cruiser, and Buckboard.

The rotate whiffletree subtracts when the type element needs to rotate clockwise to access the characters on that part of the ball.

Mountainside is responsible for the condos built along Buckboard off Whiffletree, and many other projects important to Sugarloaf's growth.

The Whiffletree quad goes from the village to mid-mountain; the King Pine quad, near the summit, opens bowl skiing on the east side.

King Pine Bowl can also be accessed by the Skyline Chair via Spillway X-Cut or from Whiffletree.

Timberline- Borvig quad, the only lift to the top of the mountain, servicing beginner to expert terrain (Installed 1997, moved from location of Whiffletree)

The Selectric mechanism was notable for using internal mechanical binary coding and two mechanical binary-digital-to-analog converters, called whiffletree linkages, to select the character to be typed.

Floyd found Deacon Bains in the barnyard mending a whiffletree, and grunted, "Say, Cousin Barney, I'm kind of worried about Lulu."

Formerly in the place of the current Whiffletree Superquad, Timberline services easy runs such as Timberline and Tote Road start at the top terminal of this lift.

The Cycle Shaft was rotated when a spring clutch was released, driving a set of cams whose rotational motion was then converted into left-and-right motion by the whiffletree.

Whiffletree, located on the eastern side of the mountain, and serviced by the Whiffletree SuperQuad, a high-capacity detachable quad built by Garaventa CTEC.

Some investors were already disturbed that in 1993, the company invested $3 million in a limited partnership managed by the Whiffletree Corporation, which is run by Steven E. Berman, the brother of a Pier 1 board member, Martin L. Berman.

For the reader's ease of understanding on their further perusing hereon below, the archaic term "whiffletree" does not refer to a variety of tree, but, rather, to the cross shaped wooden bar that connects a harnessed draft horse or mule to the carriage which it pulls.

In addition to his development and refinement of the pitman windchest, Skinner also developed and perfected the Whiffletree Shade Motor - a mechanical device that moves the expression shades from the open to closed position in a smooth, fluid motion without the "slam" that often accompanies mechanical shade traces.