percussion flaking

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a method of forming a flint tool by striking flakes from a stone core with another stone or a piece of bone or wood.

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Still others, especially the percussion instruments, are struck by hammers that move when the air pressure changes.
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It runs as a polyphonic symphony compared to the simple percussion section of the heart or the synchronized cellos of the liver.
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The percussion rolls like thunder, the woodwinds climax, the camera swoops upward, and we see the brass plaque: The Olive Garden.
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I brought down 100 music recorders and various percussion instruments.
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A machine for making percussion caps was patented by John Abraham in 1864.
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But really, you know, we both ought to be talking to Wentworth and flaking after his mother and his liver—and things like that.
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The carbon dioxid evolved distends the stomach, and its outline can easily be determined by percussion.
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In these instruments fully one-third of the speaking stops rely on percussion for production of their tones.
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One day when the boys were flaking spear points, Fleetfoot turned to Flaker and said, “Do you know who made the first flaker?”
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