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Axe
noun · 78% connection
A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
Board
noun · 78% connection
Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
Bolt
noun · 78% connection
A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
Bosonic string theory
noun · 78% connection
the original version of string theory, developed in the late 1960s.; "Although bosonic string theory has many attractive features, it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
Cabling
noun · 78% connection
The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
Chaplet
noun · 78% connection
A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
Collar
noun · 78% connection
A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for restraining motion within given limits, or for holding so…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
Entree
noun · 78% connection
In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a j…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
Facilitation
noun · 78% connection
(neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
Flexure
noun · 78% connection
The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
Hair
noun · 78% connection
A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
Harmonics
noun · 78% connection
Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
Intension
noun · 78% connection
A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained; as, the intension of a musical string.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
Lance
noun · 78% connection
A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
Ligneous
adjective · 78% connection
Made of wood; consisting of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
Mechanical
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
Monochord
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between tw…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
Moulinet
noun · 78% connection
A machine formerly used for bending a crossbow by winding it up.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crossbow, consisting, steel, shaft, wood.
