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Bearing
noun · 78% connection
The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
Chasuble
noun · 78% connection
The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a na…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
Coak
noun · 78% connection
A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron unitin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
Cross
noun · 78% connection
A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
Deal
noun · 78% connection
The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
Drift
noun · 78% connection
The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
Easement
noun · 78% connection
A curved member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
Fish
verb · 78% connection
To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
Forefoot
noun · 78% connection
A piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
Fork
noun · 78% connection
An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
Keelson
noun · 78% connection
A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
Lens
noun · 78% connection
A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
Link
noun · 78% connection
Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specific…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
Loggerhead
noun · 78% connection
An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
Mast
noun · 78% connection
A pole, or long, strong, round piece of timber, or spar, set upright in a boat or vessel, to sustain the sails, yards, rigging, etc. A…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
Obelisk
noun · 78% connection
An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monoli…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
Pitman
noun · 78% connection
The connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a connecting rod in other machinery.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
Plank
verb · 78% connection
To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: upright, curved, piece, timber, connecting.
