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-ory
unknown · 78% connection
A noun suffix denoting that which pertains to, or serves for; as in ambulatory, that which serves for walking; consistory, factory, et…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
Axe
noun · 78% connection
A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
Barker's mill
unknown · 78% connection
A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from aper…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
Billhook
noun · 78% connection
A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
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: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
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: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
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: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
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: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
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: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
D valve
unknown · 78% connection
A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
Gripe
noun · 78% connection
A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
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: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
Hilt
noun · 78% connection
A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
Hippurite
noun · 78% connection
A fossil bivalve mollusk of the genus Hippurites, of many species, having a conical, cup-shaped under valve, with a flattish upper val…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
Ileocolic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to the ileum and colon; as, the ileocolic, or ileocaecal, valve, a valve where the ileum opens into the large intestine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
Inwrought
p. p. / a. · 78% connection
Wrought or worked in or among other things; worked into any fabric so as to from a part of its texture; wrought or adorned, as with fi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
Job
noun · 78% connection
an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
Lap
noun · 78% connection
The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wheel, worked, hand, serves, handle.
