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Apron
noun · 78% connection
A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: piece, timber, groove, glides.
Auger
noun · 78% connection
A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: piece, timber, groove, glides.
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: piece, timber, groove, glides.
Beam
noun · 78% connection
Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: piece, timber, groove, glides.
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: piece, timber, groove, glides.
Billethead
noun · 78% connection
A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: piece, timber, groove, glides.
Binder
noun · 78% connection
Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: piece, timber, groove, glides.
Bird's-mouth
noun · 78% connection
An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: piece, timber, groove, glides.
Board
noun · 78% connection
A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: piece, timber, groove, glides.
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: piece, timber, groove, glides.
Cam
noun · 78% connection
A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: piece, timber, groove, glides.
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: piece, timber, groove, glides.
Cathead
noun · 78% connection
A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: piece, timber, groove, glides.
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: piece, timber, groove, glides.
Cheval-de-frise
noun · 78% connection
A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, sto…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: piece, timber, groove, glides.
Coak
noun · 78% connection
A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron unitin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: piece, timber, groove, glides.
Cross
noun · 78% connection
A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: piece, timber, groove, glides.
Fish
noun · 78% connection
A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: piece, timber, groove, glides.
