a combining form meaning âthe dead,â âcorpse,â âdead tissueâ: necrology. Also, esp. before a vowel,necr-. [< Greek nekro-, comb. form of nekrÃ³s dead person, corpse, (adj.) dead]
The layout of a standard curling sheet of ice. The curling Sheet Each curling sheet is a patch of ice, 44.5 metres (146 ft) by 4.3 to 4.75 metres (14 ft 2 in to 15 ft 7 in), with identical sets of circles near each end. At the centre of the target, which is called the house, is a tee line and small circle called the button.
Curling ice is approximately 3 centimetres thick and is not a smooth surface, but pebbled with bumps of ice. The ideal temperature for curling ice is between â3Â° C and â7Â° C. Ice sheets are maintained with hand-held ice scrapers and re-pebbled by spraying water from a backpack using a special hose head to control the size of droplets.