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Arris
noun · 78% connection
The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edg…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
Backsword
noun · 78% connection
A sword with one sharp edge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
Blunt
adjective · 78% connection
Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
Bowline
noun · 78% connection
A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
Brink
noun · 78% connection
The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
Calk
verb · 78% connection
To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
Clinker-built
adjective · 78% connection
Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like cla…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
Curbstone
noun · 78% connection
A stone /et along a margin as a and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
Divider
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
Edge
verb · 78% connection
The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
Edgeless
adjective · 78% connection
Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
Edgewise
adverb · 78% connection
With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
Enmanche
adjective · 78% connection
Resembling, or covered with, a sleeve; -- said of the chief when lines are drawn from the middle point of the upper edge upper edge to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
Feather-edged/
adjective · 78% connection
Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
Flashing
noun · 78% connection
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,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
Flint
noun · 78% connection
A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
Glaive
noun · 78% connection
A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lan…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
Graduator
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for dividing any line, right or curve, into small, regular intervals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dividing, instrument, sharp, edge.
