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Achilles' tendon
noun · 78% connection
The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; --…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
Acre
noun · 78% connection
A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
Are
noun · 78% connection
The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square y…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
Balk
verb · 78% connection
One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
Bee
noun · 78% connection
Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
Biquadrate
noun · 78% connection
The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
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: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
Cap
noun · 78% connection
A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
Cog
noun · 78% connection
A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
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: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
Hardy
noun · 78% connection
A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
Heel
noun · 78% connection
Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
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: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
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: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
Jacaranda
noun · 78% connection
The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet woo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
Lewisson
noun · 78% connection
An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
Mortise
verb · 78% connection
To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
Orchard
noun · 78% connection
An inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit trees, collectively; -- used especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plum…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: square, wood, iron, support, topmast.
