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Admittance
noun · 78% connection
Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
Adventurer
noun · 78% connection
A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
Angular
adjective · 78% connection
Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
Antemural
noun · 78% connection
An outwork of a strong, high wall, with turrets, in front of the gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
Apse
noun · 78% connection
A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projec…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
Balcony
noun · 78% connection
A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
Bay
noun · 78% connection
A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, va…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
Bell crank
unknown · 78% connection
A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
Bevel
noun · 78% connection
Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
Blockhouse
noun · 78% connection
An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper sto…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
Bonnet
noun · 78% connection
A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
Bumkin
noun · 78% connection
A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
Crow's-nest
noun · 78% connection
A box or perch near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
Elbow
noun · 78% connection
Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast or course of a river; als…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
Entrance
noun · 78% connection
The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking posses…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
Gatehouse
noun · 78% connection
a house built at a gateway; usually the gatekeeper's residence
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
Gateway
noun · 78% connection
A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
Ingress
noun · 78% connection
The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, overhanging, structure, lookout, defense.
