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Adder's tongue
noun · 78% connection
ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
Adder's tongue fern
noun · 78% connection
ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
Apse
noun · 78% connection
A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projec…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
Balcony
noun · 78% connection
A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
Balk
verb · 78% connection
A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called "the balks."
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
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: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
Beak
noun · 78% connection
A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
Beam
noun · 78% connection
A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rol…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
Boom
noun · 78% connection
A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
Breach
noun · 78% connection
Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
Bumkin
noun · 78% connection
A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
Cantalever
noun · 78% connection
A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
Cantilever
noun · 78% connection
projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
Cheval-de-frise
noun · 78% connection
A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, sto…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
Cockscomb
noun · 78% connection
A plant (Celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called ga…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
Cornucopia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
Fish
verb · 78% connection
To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
Flail
noun · 78% connection
An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beam, projecting, spikes, breach, impassable.
