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Bobbin
noun · 78% connection
The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
Bosonic string theory
noun · 78% connection
the original version of string theory, developed in the late 1960s.; "Although bosonic string theory has many attractive features, it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
But
verb · 78% connection
A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, ins…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
Chaplet
noun · 78% connection
A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
Click
noun · 78% connection
The latch of a door.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
Copper-fastened
adjective · 78% connection
Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
Cutpurse
noun · 78% connection
One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
Deadlatch
noun · 78% connection
A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
Fid
noun · 78% connection
A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the tres…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
Gripe
noun · 78% connection
An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
Harmonics
noun · 78% connection
Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
Hasp
noun · 78% connection
A clasp, especially a metal strap permanently fast at one end to a staple or pin, while the other passes over a staple, and is fastene…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
Heck
noun · 78% connection
The bolt or latch of a door.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
Knocker
noun · 78% connection
One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittan…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
Latchkey
noun · 78% connection
A key used to raise, or throw back, the latch of a door, esp. a night latch.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
Lock
noun · 78% connection
Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
Martingal
noun · 78% connection
A strap fastened to a horse's girth, passing between his fore legs, and fastened to the bit, or now more commonly ending in two rings,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
Monochord
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between tw…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: string, raising, latch, door, outside.
