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Aeolipyle
noun · 78% connection
An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which stea…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
Air vessel
unknown · 78% connection
A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
Bain-marie
noun · 78% connection
A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
Balloon
noun · 78% connection
A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
Barque
noun · 78% connection
Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a saili…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
Beam
noun · 78% connection
The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
Camel
noun · 78% connection
A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow wate…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
Cargo
noun · 78% connection
The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
Carpellum
noun · 78% connection
A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
Cell
noun · 78% connection
A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
Charter
noun · 78% connection
The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
Con
verb · 78% connection
To conduct, or superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
Consign
verb · 78% connection
To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
Crew
noun · 78% connection
The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
Cruiser
noun · 78% connection
One who, or a vessel that, cruises; -- usually an armed vessel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
Cup
noun · 78% connection
A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
Effusion
noun · 78% connection
The escape of a fluid out of its natural vessel, either by rupture of the vessel, or by exudation through its walls. It may pass into…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
Fender
v. t. & i. · 78% connection
Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, lading, vessel.
