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noun - rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading
noun - a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging
noun - a woman's top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncovered
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He's about to adjust the balancers |
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Jul 31 2005 The Times - Cryptic |
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Plural form of haltere. |
The balancing organ of a two-winged fly, seen as either of a pair of knobbed filaments that take the place of the hindwings, vibrating during flight. |
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Halteres (; singular halter or haltere) are minute dumbbell-shaped organs in several flying insects that provide information about body rotations during flight. They are paired structures that oscillate rapidly along with the wings and operate like vibrating structure gyroscopes: any rotation of the plane of oscillation causes a force on the vibrating halteres by the Coriolis effect. The insect detects this force with sensory organs called campaniform sensilla and chordotonal organs located at the base of the halteres and uses this information to interpret and correct its position in space, Halteres provide rapid feedback to the wing-steering muscles, as well as to the muscles responsible for stabilizing the head.Dipterans (flies, gnats, craneflies, mosquitoes etc.) have halteres that evolved from the ancestral insects' pair of hindwings. Males of the much smaller order Strepsiptera (twisted wing parasites) have halteres that evolved from a pair of forewings. |