Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 9 | 544 | It is fastened to the View more quotes about staff">staff by the staff's fitting through a hollow, ringlike socket at its termination. |
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Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 9 | 541 | I had been twenty days slave at Tabuk's Ford. |
| 9 | 542 | The peasant hoe has a staff some six feet in length. |
| 9 | 543 | Its head is iron, and heavy, some six inches at the cutting edge, tapering to four inches where it joins the staff. |
| 9 | 544 | It is fastened to the staff by the staff's fitting through a hollow, ringlike socket at its termination. |
| 9 | 545 | A wedge was driven between the interior edge of the socket and the staff to tighten the wood in the socket. |
| 9 | 546 | In some such hoes the socket is drilled and the staff is held in place by means of a pin, usually of wood, sometimes of metal. |
| 9 | 547 | But even so, as the wood will wear against the socket, a wedge may be used, as well. |
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I had been twenty days slave at Tabuk's Ford.
The peasant hoe has a staff some six feet in length.
Its head is iron, and heavy, some six inches at the cutting edge, tapering to four inches where it joins the staff.
It is fastened to the staff by the staff's fitting through a hollow, ringlike socket at its termination.
A wedge was driven between the interior edge of the socket and the staff to tighten the wood in the socket.
In some such hoes the socket is drilled and the staff is held in place by means of a pin, usually of wood, sometimes of metal.
But even so, as the wood will wear against the socket, a wedge may be used, as well.
- (Slave Girl of Gor)