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Acceptation
noun · 78% connection
Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
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: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
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: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
Balk
verb · 78% connection
A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called "the balks."
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
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: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
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: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
Breasthook
noun · 78% connection
A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
Calk
verb · 78% connection
To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
Cant
verb · 78% connection
To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
Chamfer
noun · 78% connection
The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
Elevation
noun · 78% connection
The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piec…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
Entertainment
noun · 78% connection
The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
Feather-edged/
adjective · 78% connection
Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
Forehook
noun · 78% connection
A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
Heel
noun · 78% connection
The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafte…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
Hogback
noun · 78% connection
An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; -- the opposite of camber.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
Indent
noun · 78% connection
A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
Intussusception
noun · 78% connection
The abnormal reception or slipping of a part of a tube, by inversion and descent, within a contiguous part of it; specifically, the re…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: interior, angle, notch, across, piece.
