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Abutment arch
noun · 78% connection
an arch supported by an abutment
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
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: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
Blush
verb · 78% connection
To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the chee…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
Bobbin
noun · 78% connection
A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its len…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
Bolster
noun · 78% connection
A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
Bolt
verb · 78% connection
To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
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: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
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: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
Cheek
noun · 78% connection
Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
Clod
noun · 78% connection
A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
Countersink
verb · 78% connection
To chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
Drift
noun · 78% connection
The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
Drove
noun · 78% connection
A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
Epaule
noun · 78% connection
The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
Epaulette
noun · 78% connection
A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
Feather
noun · 78% connection
A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
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: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
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: hole, bored, tenon, nearer, shoulder.
