distance piece BrE
spacer AmE

Remove the distance piece - the softer polystyrene block is easier to remove without damaging the stem than a harder wooden block.

And then truculently to the Distance Pieces, which run from rib to rib, "Just keep the Ribs from rolling, will you?

Use a piece of wood - or, better, a block of polystyrene - 1 -2 inches (4-5cm) thick, held between stake and stem as a distance piece.

Distance Piece--A long, thin piece of wood (sometimes tape) passing through and attached to all the ribs in order to prevent them from rolling over sideways.

Where necessary, distance pieces formed of papier-mâché tubes and felt wads are used to fill up the space in the case to prevent any movement of the charge.

But the movement, the themes Mr. Brown suggests and the themes Ms. Boyce-Taylor articulates never quite seem to come together in this strangely distanced piece.

But I know a little bit about the first spacer too.

Most of the other spacers were looking that way too.

It was not the sort of thing Spacers would ever do.

There was nothing much to do on a Spacer world.

Having met one of them, she was Spacer enough still not to care.

More than enough time for the spacer to get on its way again.

"However, the problem is not so great as most Spacers believe."

And if we tried to do anything about it, our first words would give us away as Spacers.

The Spacers want to be able to report a murder.

Maybe she was getting too old for this spacer stuff.

But of the little old spacer there was no sign.

The man looked such a Spacer, and that made it all the better, of course.

The two spacers worked together more or less in silence.

One thing we can change, whether the Spacers are weak or strong.

A Spacer would have had a room for each function.

In less than an hour more the spacer would be taking off and there was still no way of getting near it.

But the little spacer had been with the other prisoners.

While I was tying him up the spacer took off.

Indeed, there is even some question about your majority under Spacer law,?

Yet how many of those who called themselves Spacers were really space travelers?

Coming with me well be the Spacer woman and her companions.

She must be something more than a plain spacer like me.

But he could try something as a test - a watch on the spacer who had just entered, perhaps.

"Because you are a good Spacer who deserves a second chance."

The only way out is to find the murderer on our own and hand him over to the Spacers.