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Breastband
noun · 78% connection
A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
Broach
noun · 78% connection
A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
Bushing
noun · 78% connection
The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
Controller
noun · 78% connection
An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
Cribriform
adjective · 78% connection
Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
Die
noun · 78% connection
A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
Dowel
noun · 78% connection
A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
Eye
noun · 78% connection
A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
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: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
Flask
noun · 78% connection
The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
Gammon
verb · 78% connection
To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
Grist
noun · 78% connection
In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
Guy
noun · 78% connection
A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
Hatband
noun · 78% connection
A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
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: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
Hornpipe
noun · 78% connection
An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called because the b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
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: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
Leader
noun · 78% connection
A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: round, flattish, wooden, block, encircled.
