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    A wooden fish, also known as a Chinese temple block, wooden bell, or muyu, is a type of woodblock that originated from China that is used as a percussion...
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    Castanets. There is also the idiophone, which is also called a wooden fish. This type of fish drum is used to accompany performers of changben or Chinese...
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    A wooden halibut hook is a type of fish hook, historically used by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast to catch Pacific halibut. In...
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    robe(which indicated a particularly eminent monastic), the ruyi scepter, the "wooden fish", the ring staff (khakkhara), The Eighteen Arhats (or Luohan) (Chinese:...
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    20th-century American, originally a brand name, later generic Tongue drum The wooden fish works like a slit drum but is rarely classified with the other slit drums...
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    Fishing techniques are methods for catching fish. The term may also be applied to methods for catching other aquatic animals such as molluscs (shellfish...
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    Stockfish (redirect from Stock-fish)
    Stockfish is unsalted fish, especially cod, dried by cold air and wind on wooden racks (which are called "hjell" in Norway) on the foreshore. The drying...
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  • people, an indigenous ethnic group of Western New Guinea Muyu language Wooden fish (木鱼; 木魚; Mùyú), an Asian percussion instrument usually associated with...
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    a pair of flat wooden sticks Mokugyo (木魚, also called 'wooden fish') – woodblock carved in the shape of a fish, struck with a wooden stick; often used...
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    spun from fine silk, and the use of "wooden fish", likely an early type of surface lure, to catch larger fish had been wide spread at least since the...
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    Pinyin: mùyúshū, literally 'wooden fish book'), that supposedly has its roots in Buddhist chants accompanied by wooden fish. Mukjyu texts were popular...
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    Pollock (redirect from Coal-fish)
    common name used for either of the two species of North Atlantic marine fish in the genus Pollachius. Pollachius pollachius is referred to as "pollock"...
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    Southeast Asian fish sauce is often made from anchovies, salt, and water, and is intensely flavoured. Anchovies and salt are arranged in wooden barrels to...
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    Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer, rapist, child molester and cannibal who committed at least...
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    rather than in clumps, on the branch, as well as an aromatic variety. Wooden Fish Songs, by Ruthanne Lum McCunn, is a historical novel based on Lue's life...
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    (simplified Chinese: 木鱼; traditional Chinese: 木魚; pinyin: Mùyú; literally, "Wooden fish"; sometimes also 木鱼坪, Muyuping) is a town in Shennongjia Forestry District...
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    where it is commonly used in religious ceremonies. It is a carved hollow wooden instrument with a large slit. In its traditional form, the muyu, the shape...
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    Swordfish (redirect from Sword Fish)
    They have been fished widely since ancient times in places such as the Strait of Messina, where they are still fished with traditional wooden boats called...
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    replace wooden-hulls in the late 1950s. Beginning in the 1970s, new regulations began to greatly restrict gill-net fishing, making the fish tug all but...
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    Whether fish sleep or not is an open question, to the point of having inspired the title of several popular science books. In birds and mammals, sleep...
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    allowing it to ferment. A fermentation process of at least six months gives the fish its characteristic strong smell and somewhat acidic taste. A newly opened...
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    home and gift shop, and washed away one of the cove's characteristic wooden fish sheds. In January 2021, the federal and provincial governments announced...
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    rhythmic instrument during sutra chanting to keep time, similar to the wooden fish. The khakkhara came to symbolize monks in Chinese literature, serving...
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    related to Punggyeong. Wooden fish Lee, O.-Young (2012-08-21). Things Korean. Tuttle Publishing. p. 367. ISBN 9781462908400. "Wooden fish gongs and wind chimes:...
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  • weighted bamboo pole to the rhythm of the head master's striking his wooden fish while using the bottom end of the pole. San Te struggles to lift the...
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    Greenwood, for maintenance. The mistaken belief that Washington's dentures were wooden was widely accepted by 19th century historians and appeared as fact in school...
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    dynasty saw percussion instruments such as clappers, troughs, wooden fish, and yǔ (wooden tiger). Wind instruments such as flute, pan-pipes, pitch-pipes...
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    their drums; the man on the left holds an extremely rare type of carved wooden fish totem. Baal, J. van (2007). "Marind-anim". World Culture Encyclopedia...
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    ends of two rails into a continuous track. The name is derived from fish, a wooden reinforcement of a "built-up" ship's mast that helped round out its...
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    sitting on top of the clock. Hanging from the base of the clock is a large wooden fish that blows bubbles every half-hour. Catching one of these bubbles entitles...
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