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Breasting
noun · 78% connection
The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
Breastwheel
noun · 78% connection
A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
Bucket
noun · 78% connection
One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
Buckle
noun · 78% connection
A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as par…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
Burrow
noun · 78% connection
A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
Carriage
noun · 78% connection
A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
Coriolis force
noun · 78% connection
(physics) a force due to the earth's rotation; acts on a body in motion (airplane or projectile) in a rotating reference frame; in a r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
Counterbalance
noun · 78% connection
A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
Cresset
noun · 78% connection
An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pol…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
Crown wheel
unknown · 78% connection
A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
Curb
noun · 78% connection
A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
Framing
noun · 78% connection
The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
Gallows
n. sing. · 78% connection
A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
Golden-eye
noun · 78% connection
A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
Hack
noun · 78% connection
A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill ra…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
Hand
noun · 78% connection
An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
Hog
noun · 78% connection
A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
Hogframe
noun · 78% connection
A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: frame, barrow, wheel, carried, hand.
