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Bail
noun · 78% connection
The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
Barque
noun · 78% connection
Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a saili…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
Bicker
noun · 78% connection
A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
Blickey
noun · 78% connection
A tin dinner pail.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
Bole
noun · 78% connection
An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
Boss
noun · 78% connection
A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
Bull's-eye
noun · 78% connection
A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
Camel
noun · 78% connection
A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow wate…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
Coehorn
noun · 78% connection
A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
Cup
noun · 78% connection
A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
Firkin
noun · 78% connection
A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
Flageolet
noun · 78% connection
A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the pi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
Garrot
noun · 78% connection
A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
Hold
verb · 78% connection
To receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain; to have capacity or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
Horn
noun · 78% connection
A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
Keel
noun · 78% connection
A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the pri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
Kid
noun · 78% connection
A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
Kit
m. · 78% connection
A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, vessel, pail.
