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Bank
noun · 78% connection
The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
Border
noun · 78% connection
The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
Brake
verb · 78% connection
A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
Brim
noun · 78% connection
The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
Brink
noun · 78% connection
The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
Calk
verb · 78% connection
To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
Clinker-built
adjective · 78% connection
Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like cla…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
Convoy
verb · 78% connection
To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
Covert
verb · 78% connection
Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
Draff
noun · 78% connection
A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
Drag
verb · 78% connection
To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
Emargination
noun · 78% connection
The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
Embankment
noun · 78% connection
A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
Feather-edged/
adjective · 78% connection
Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
Flagging
noun · 78% connection
A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
Fringe
noun · 78% connection
Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
Imbankment
noun · 78% connection
The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
Lip
noun · 78% connection
either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stone, along, margin, protection, edge.
