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Asphaltum
noun · 78% connection
A composition of bitumen, pitch, lime, and gravel, used for forming pavements, and as a water-proof cement for bridges, roofs, etc.; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
Barratry
noun · 78% connection
A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
Bergmeal
noun · 78% connection
An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
Boottopping
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a tempo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
Bore
verb · 78% connection
To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
Boring
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
Bottom
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
Bottomed
adjective · 78% connection
Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
Bottomry
noun · 78% connection
A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
Bream
verb · 78% connection
To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
Cement
noun · 78% connection
To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
Crag
noun · 78% connection
A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
Cyclops
noun · 78% connection
minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
Draught
noun · 78% connection
The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet dra…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
Dunnage
noun · 78% connection
Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
Foul
verb · 78% connection
To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
Gray
superl. · 78% connection
White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
Grizzled
adjective · 78% connection
Gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cement, india, shells, pulverized, mixed.
