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  2. Weight-bearing - Wikipedia

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    Touch-down weight-bearing or Toe-touch weight-bearing: The foot or toes may touch the floor (such as to maintain balance), but not support any weight. [3] Do not place actual weight on the affected leg. Imagine having an egg underfoot that one is not to crush. Partial weight-bearing: A small amount of weight may be supported by the affected leg ...

  3. List of cheerleading jumps - Wikipedia

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    Toe-touch jumps (or any jump) can be immediately followed by a back handspring (Level 3), back tuck (Level 4+), standing full (Level 5+). Or front tumbling can be performed out of a jump, for example to front walkover, front handspring, aerial, etc. however this is less common.

  4. Plantigrade - Wikipedia

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    The primary advantages of a plantigrade foot are stability and weight-bearing ability; plantigrade feet have the largest surface area. The primary disadvantage of a plantigrade foot is speed. With more bones and joints in the foot, the leg is both shorter and heavier at the far end, which makes it difficult to move rapidly.

  5. Can't touch your toes? These 4 stretches will help you get there

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  6. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    binnacle list A ship's sick list. The list of men unable to report for duty was given to the officer or mate of the watch by the ship's surgeon. The list was kept at the binnacle. bird farm United States Navy slang for an aircraft carrier. bite Verb used in reference to a rudder, as in "the rudder begins to bite". When a vessel has steerageway ...

  7. Basket toss - Wikipedia

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    Basket Toss (). A Basket Toss is a stunt performed in cheerleading using 3 or more bases to toss a flyer into the air. Two of the bases interlock their hands. While in the air, the flyer does some type of jump, ranging from toe-touches to herkies before returning to the cradle.

  8. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    A weight-bearing member made of wood, stone, or metal that overhangs a wall. Bressummer (literally "breast- beam") A large, horizontal beam supporting the wall above, especially in a jettied building. Brise soleil Projecting fins or canopies which shade windows from direct sunlight. Broken pediment

  9. Perissodactyla - Wikipedia

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    The nonweight-bearing toes are either present, absent, vestigial, or positioned posteriorly. By contrast, artiodactyls (even-toed ungulates) bear most of their weight equally on four or two (an even number) of the five toes: their third and fourth toes.