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Abutment
noun · 78% connection
State of abutting.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
Amphoteric
adjective · 78% connection
Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
Backlash
noun · 78% connection
The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected pa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
Block
verb · 78% connection
A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
Brand
verb · 78% connection
A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
Breastwheel
noun · 78% connection
A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
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: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
Brob
noun · 78% connection
A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
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: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
Butting joint
unknown · 78% connection
A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the jo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
Cage
noun · 78% connection
A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
Chock
noun · 78% connection
A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
Clamp
noun · 78% connection
Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
Cliff limestone
unknown · 78% connection
A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
Curtail dog
unknown · 78% connection
A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut sho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
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: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
Drill press
unknown · 78% connection
A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
Extrinsic
adjective · 78% connection
Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other part/ -- said of certain groups of muscles. Opposed to intrinsic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: block, wood, metal, fitting, holes.
