Sax: alternatives and connections

The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edg…

Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails.

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…

Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke.

That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.

A narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc.

Braids, collectively; trimming.

A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes…

Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of Chenille rugs.

The act of chopping; a stroke.

Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.

To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden.

Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also,…

That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tile…

A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; --…

A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give fort…