But without actually seeing, he could not be sure of the tamping or the flint.

Water from the bucket comes next, with more careful tamping of the soil.

The usual tamping and puffing and lighting up took place.

Pre-filled pods eliminate the need to fuss with exact measuring and tamping of fine coffee grounds.

Other work involved looking at the tamping of ballast, properties of subsoils, and rail prestressing.

Finally, a dynamic vibrator machine shakes the track to perform the final tamping, effectively simulating the passing of 2,500 axles.

If you've never used an espresso machine, it may take a few tries to master the correct tamping and inserting of the filter holder into the machine.

They are fascinated by the little rituals of the pipe - the packing with rich, savory tobacco, the careful double-lighting, the tamping of the tobacco.

The first Tie Tamping Machine in South Central Railway was introduced on January, 1981.

(A company spokesman said the brew head does the tamping, but I think it is better to tamp the coffee before putting it in the brew head.)

His frown took them both in, then he straightened around in his chair deliberately, turning his attention back to an over-studious tamping of his pipe with a thick thumb.

Oddly for years, it remained permissible to use an iron or steel stemmer providing it was not upon the".wadding or the first part of the tamping or stemming on the powder.

The following year, 2001, other works for the extension were completed, notably the run round loop at Kingsley & Froghall station, as well as final tamping of the two miles of plain track.

A light tamping of the bags or tubes serves to consolidate the moist clay-containing fill and creates interlocking bags or tubes of a strength between adobe and rammed earth.

The mound rises rapidly, two feet above ground level now, three, four, a swelling circular blister, its outlines governed by the unchanging positions of the four priests, its tapering contours formed by the tamping of scores of bare feet.

You can shoot them or just hide them with a timer, and when they go off, their normal output of radiation is increased many times by the tamping and pumping techniques that we've invented over the years to reduce the size of much larger bombs."

The third type, Tamping, are food offerings to evil spirits so as to ward off bad luck, and typically consist of meat, rice and bananas wrapped up in leaves and placed at places considered inauspicious such as cemeteries, bridges and road intersections.

But he tamped down the need and went to his child.

He tamped the can down hard and turned his head to the side to listen.

From the expression on his face now, he was tamped down no longer.

That talk has the effect of further tamping down competition.

He tried to tamp down his sensitivity, but nothing happened.

He wanted to say more, but tamped the urge down.

Then I tamped the ground around the plants with my foot.

He tamped down any fear that was trying to rise.

Every culture has its own way of tamping down female power, be it sexual, political or financial.

I hear adrenaline in my voice, and tamp it down.

He looked at the doctor, who was tamping his pipe.

Together they packed the charge into the wall and tamped it down.

A. I am always worried until the regulatory side is tamped down.

It may also have the practical effect of tamping down anger here.

But Edwards is already trying to tamp down those expectations.

He felt a rush of anger, but tamped it down.

"We've been working all day to try to tamp it down," the spokesman said.

Some of the grass is ripped up, some's tamped down.

In places the middle trench had been filled and tamped.

But he tamped down the emotion, refusing to feel anything.

He tamped tobacco into his pipe but did not light it.

This sort of variation should be welcomed, not tamped down.

He took a last drag on his cigar, tamped it out.

The students also hand tamped over a hundred layers of soil.

But as he could not, Andrew decided to tamp down her temper.