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Patio

A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.

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Area 76% connected

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.

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Garden 70% connected

A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

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Terrace 92% connected

A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Altar noun · 86% connection

a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made

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Arcade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Arch noun · 86% connection

(architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it

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Arena noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Balance noun · 86% connection

equality of distribution

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Balcony noun · 86% connection

a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet

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Bascule noun · 86% connection

a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw)

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Boarding noun · 86% connection

a structure of boards

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Body noun · 86% connection

the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted"

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Bowl noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Bridge noun · 86% connection

a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

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Building noun · 86% connection

a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corne…

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Catchment noun · 86% connection

a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area)

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Coil noun · 86% connection

a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope"

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Colonnade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Column noun · 86% connection

a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)

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Complex noun · 86% connection

a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

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Construction noun · 86% connection

a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair i…

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Abature noun · 78% connection

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: paved, yard, floor, ores, cleaned.
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Alembroth noun · 78% connection

The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimu…

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Amalgam noun · 78% connection

an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all m…

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Amalgamation noun · 78% connection

The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver f…

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Blind verb · 78% connection

To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: paved, yard, floor, ores, cleaned.
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Blinding noun · 78% connection

A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.

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Brace noun · 78% connection

A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.

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Broadcloth noun · 78% connection

A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction fr…

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Clew noun · 78% connection

To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yar…

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Disentangle verb · 78% connection

To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to…

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Downtrodden adjective · 78% connection

Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power.

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Fell noun · 78% connection

The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.

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Floor verb · 78% connection

To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: paved, yard, floor, ores, cleaned.
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Foot noun · 78% connection

A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard.

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