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Adze
noun · 78% connection
A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
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: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
Bladed
adjective · 78% connection
Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
Bowie knife
unknown · 78% connection
A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
Buckle
noun · 78% connection
A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as par…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
Coriolis force
noun · 78% connection
(physics) a force due to the earth's rotation; acts on a body in motion (airplane or projectile) in a rotating reference frame; in a r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
Cream-slice
noun · 78% connection
A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
Curb
noun · 78% connection
A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
Defile
noun · 78% connection
Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
Edge
verb · 78% connection
The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
Foible
noun · 78% connection
The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
Frame
noun · 78% connection
A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
Framing
noun · 78% connection
The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
Gallows
n. sing. · 78% connection
A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
Hack
noun · 78% connection
A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill ra…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
Hogframe
noun · 78% connection
A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
Kick
noun · 78% connection
The projection on the tang of the blade of a pocket knife, which prevents the edge of the blade from striking the spring. See Illust.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
Knife
noun · 78% connection
An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many diff…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, blade, strong, frame.
