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Admittance
noun · 78% connection
Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
Antemural
noun · 78% connection
An outwork of a strong, high wall, with turrets, in front of the gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
Barbacan
noun · 78% connection
An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
Bartizan
noun · 78% connection
A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
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: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
Bridgehead
noun · 78% connection
A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
Calk
noun · 78% connection
A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- ca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
Cramp
noun · 78% connection
A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
Cribbing
noun · 78% connection
A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
Crownwork
noun · 78% connection
a type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
Dolphin
noun · 78% connection
A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
Down
adjective · 78% connection
Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
Entrance
noun · 78% connection
The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking posses…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
Fastness
adjective · 78% connection
A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
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: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
Futtock
noun · 78% connection
One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked trans…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
Gatehouse
noun · 78% connection
a house built at a gateway; usually the gatekeeper's residence
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
Gateway
noun · 78% connection
A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grating, iron, timbers, pointed, hung.
