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Acre
noun · 78% connection
A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
Are
noun · 78% connection
The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square y…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
Barbette
noun · 78% connection
(formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
Biquadrate
noun · 78% connection
The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
Bracket
noun · 78% connection
A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
Breve
noun · 78% connection
A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
Brigantine
noun · 78% connection
A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
Castle
verb · 78% connection
To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of co…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
Centare
noun · 78% connection
A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
Collapse
verb · 78% connection
To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
Decagon
noun · 78% connection
A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
File
noun · 78% connection
A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a n…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
Force
noun · 78% connection
To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
Frap
verb · 78% connection
To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by dr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
Hardy
noun · 78% connection
A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
Infantry
noun · 78% connection
A body of soldiers serving on foot; foot soldiers, in distinction from cavalry.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
Intensity
noun · 78% connection
The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure, stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case may be; as, th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
Line
verb · 78% connection
To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding anything; to fortify; as, to line works…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, body, fired, together, small.
