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Wire rods

Wire rods, properzi rods are a species of 'wire rods', Indian Aluminium Cables Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1985 SC 1201 (1205): (1985) 3 SCC 284: (1985)Supp 1 SCR 731. [Central Excise and Sales Act (1 of 1944), Sch. I, item 27(a)(ii)]...


Black Rod, Gentleman Usher of

Black Rod, Gentleman Usher of, a chief officer of the king, deriving his name from the Black Rod of office which he carries, and on the top of which reposes a golden lion. During the session of Parliament he attends on the peers, and to his custody all peers impeached for any crime or contempt are first committed, Consult May, Parl. Pr....


Black Rod

the usher to the Chapter of the Garter so called from the black rod which he carries He is of the kings chamber and also usher to the House of Lords...


Gauging rod

See Gauge rod under Gauge n...


Rod

Rod, a measure of sixteen feet and a half long, otherwise called a perch....


Rod knights

Rod knights, certain servitors who held their land by serving their lords on horse-back....


Trout

Trout. The (English) Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act, 1923, consolidates and amends the enactments relating to salmon and trout and freshwater fisheries in England and Wales. Sects. 1 and 2 prohibit the use of a light, otter lath, or jack, wire or snare, spear, gaff, strokehaul, snatch or the like, or stone or other missile, or roe for catching or killing salmon, trout, or freshwater fish. A gaff or tailer may, however, be used as an auxiliary to angling with a rod and line. No explosive or noxious material must be used with intent to take or destroy fish in any waters (s. 9). Sect. 31 provides that -31.-(1) No person shall fish for, take, kill or attempt to take or kill trout-(a) Except with a rod and line, during the annual close season for trout; or(b) with a rod and line during the annual trout close season for rod and line; or(c) except with a rod and line, during the weekly close time for trout. (3) The annual close season for trout shall in any place in which a period has be...


Baculine

Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod...


Crosshead

A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod etc or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod which is hinged to the crosshead...


Dowser

A divining rod used in searching for water ore etc a dowsing rod...


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