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Anchor
noun · 78% connection
Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.
Anthracite
noun · 78% connection
A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.
Basin
noun · 78% connection
An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.
Bucket
noun · 78% connection
A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.
Coaly
noun · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.
Countersink
verb · 78% connection
To chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.
Die
noun · 78% connection
A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.
Doublethreaded
adjective · 78% connection
Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.
Drag
verb · 78% connection
The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.
Engrain
verb · 78% connection
To color in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See Grain, v. t., 1.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.
Gutter
noun · 78% connection
A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.
Hindleys screw
unknown · 78% connection
A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which the screw is intended to work. It is n…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.
Hopper
noun · 78% connection
A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.
Keel
noun · 78% connection
A barge or lighter, used on the Type for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.
Launder
noun · 78% connection
A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other app…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.
Lignite
noun · 78% connection
Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.
Moth
noun · 78% connection
Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clot…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.
Nipple
noun · 78% connection
A pipe fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually provided with a screw thread at each end, for connecting two other fittin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, carrying, objects, place, conveying.