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Ashlering
noun · 78% connection
The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets. See Ashlar, 2.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
Batten
n . · 78% connection
A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
Busk
noun · 78% connection
A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
Carpet
noun · 78% connection
A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
Defile
noun · 78% connection
Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
Dolly
noun · 78% connection
A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
Dowel
noun · 78% connection
A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
Dwang
noun · 78% connection
A piece of wood set between two studs, posts, etc., to stiffen and support them.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
Fillet
noun · 78% connection
A thin strip or ribbon; esp.: (a) A strip of metal from which coins are punched. (b) A strip of card clothing. (c) A thin projecting b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
Firms
adjective · 78% connection
The principal rafters of a roof, especially a pair of rafters taken together.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
Flat
noun · 78% connection
A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
Floor
noun · 78% connection
The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
Gallery
noun · 78% connection
narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
Girder
noun · 78% connection
A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or buil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
Header
noun · 78% connection
a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, stud…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
Horseshoe
noun · 78% connection
A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
Joist
noun · 78% connection
A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
King-post
noun · 78% connection
A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss. It is strictly a tie, intended to prevent the sagging of the tiebeam in the middl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, narrow, strip, wood, nailed.
