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A butterfly board is a sex toy used in some play piercing games. It comprises a card or wooden board with a hole cut to the shape of the male genitalia. The board is placed over the genitals and the skin of the edges of the penis and scrotum is pinned with needles or nails to it.
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Grinding is a mechanical process in which certain effects are produced by attrition. This process prevails in various mechanical arts, as in grinding corn, etc, the object of which is to reduce the materials to a fine powder; or in grinding metals for the purpose of giving them a certain figure, polish, or edge. In the first case the grinding or crushing is effected by rough stones, or, as in crushing ores, between heavy metal cylinders, or by a heavy stone or iron cylinder revolving upon a smooth plate. The grinding of cutlery is effected by means of the grindstone; emery powder grinds glass lenses and specula. Ornamental glass is ground into facets by stones and lap-wheels. Diamonds and other precious stones are ground with diamond dust.
What is called dry grinding is the grinding of steel with dry grindstones. The points of needles are produced by this means, also the finishing of steel pens. Sand-jet grinding is a process in which abrasion is effected by the percussion of small hard particles on a plain surface, sharp siliceous sand being impelled by a blast artificially produced of steam or of air. By the use of flexible jointed connecting tubes the jet can be turned in any direction.
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Acantholyda is a genus of web-spinning sawfly of the family Pamphillidae.
Acantholyda erythrocephala is widespread in Europe, and has been introduced to the USA. It lives mostly in young pine forests where the larvae develop feeding on pine needles, and the adults fly from late April to May.
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Silver Fir is the popular name for trees of the genus Abies. These are evergreen conifers of the family Pinaceae with single needles and flowers of both sexes occurring on the same tree. The topmost branches bear long, solid, cylindrical cones which break up when ripe or are destroyed by squirrels seeking the seeds inside
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The yew (Taxus) is a genus of evergreen trees of the family taxaceae. The Yew has an irregular and twisted trunk that bears a purplish-brown bark. The wood is tough and resilient, helping to resist rotting. Its needles, which are flat and flexible, are dark green on top and light green underneath. They also arch downward and have two white bands on the bottom side of their needles. It was sacred to the ancient pagan religion of Britain.
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A chapman was a petty trader, usually itinerant. During the 18th century, travelling chapmen sold chapbooks, needles, lace, linen and other household goods, and bought old brass, old clothes and human hair.
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The Prats were a social club of practical jokers which met and practised their art at the Humble Plumb public house in Bitterne, Southampton for several years at the end of the 20th century. Each year, the group elected a leader, who was then crowned 'King Prat' for the year. The group met in a specific corner of the public bar, an area known as 'Prat's Corner' and held lunches as well as conducting a campaign of practical jokes, one of the most famous being the artificial christmas tree pine needles gag - each year the landlord of the pub erected an artificial christmas tree. One year the Prats decided to each bring in some real pine needles, and secretly spread them around the floor under the artificial christmas tree, as though the tree had shed real pine needles like a real christmas tree would. A select group of friends, they became known as the prats after one disgruntled regular customer at the pub, fed up with being refused membership of the club was heard to describe the group (not unfairly as it happens) as 'a bunch of supercilious prats'. The name stuck and was adopted as the club title.
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Aichmophobia is the fear of needles or pointed objects.
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Aichurophobia is the fear of needles or pointed objects.
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Belonephobia is the fear of needles.
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