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Bee
noun · 78% connection
Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
Block
noun · 78% connection
To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
Burrel shot
unknown · 78% connection
A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
Burton
noun · 78% connection
A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running pa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
Cabbling
noun · 78% connection
The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
Callipers
n. pl. · 78% connection
See Calipers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
Catamaran
noun · 78% connection
A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
Coamings
n. pl. · 78% connection
Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
Cramp
noun · 78% connection
A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
Creeper
noun · 78% connection
A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
Double
adjective · 78% connection
To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; to double a sum of money; to double a nu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
Drogher
noun · 78% connection
A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
Falcated
adjective · 78% connection
Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent-forme…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
Flashing
noun · 78% connection
Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
Haematoin
noun · 78% connection
A substance formed from the hematin of blood, by removal of the iron through the action of concentrated sulphuric acid. Two like bodie…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
Harrow
noun · 78% connection
An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
Hematite
noun · 78% connection
An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral cryst…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
Iron
noun · 78% connection
The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: clutch, formed, hooked, pieces, iron.
