Take-off – Tail
Take-off
The spot from which a competitor rises for the high, or long, jump. The term is also used sometimes for the style of rising from the spot.
Throttle
The admission valve interposed between the carburettor and the inlet valve pipe, so that the driver can vary the amount of mixture, or gas, passing to the engine.
Transmission
- That part of the mechanism between the engine and the road wheels. An inclusive term for clutch, gear-box, cardan shaft, differential and live axle.
Trembler
The vibrating spring blade on an induction coil, whose function is to interrupt the primary current during the time the contact is made in the commutator (on an accumulator and coil system of ignition and on one or two magneto systems). Its action is comparable to that of the vibrator of an electric bell.
The Umpire
- As in Cricket, so in Baseball, the position of umpire is most re- P sponsible, and at the same time somewhat thankless. The umpire is the man who must be obeyed. His every word is law, and no player may question his decision.
Tang
The narrow piece of soft metal which is attached to the blade of the sword, and fits into the hilt.
Tablas
First wooden barrier round the arena.
Torero
A bull fighter.
Toril
Yard enclosing bulls on their arrival at the ring.
Toro bravo. A fighting bull.
Trip
An unsuccessful effort to kill which throws the hare off her legs, or the getting so close to the hare as to fleck (q.v.) her.
Turn
A sharp change of not less than a right angle in the hare's course when pressed by a dog.
Tail
The batsmen who go in late, and are generally less skilful as such than their predecessors.