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Beam
noun · 78% connection
Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
Binding
p. pr. & vb. n. · 78% connection
of Bind
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
Blancard
noun · 78% connection
A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
Block
verb · 78% connection
A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
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: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
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: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
Calk
verb · 78% connection
To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smear…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
Canvas
noun · 78% connection
A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
Check
noun · 78% connection
A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
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: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
Cloth
noun · 78% connection
A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adap…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
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: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
Deter
verb · 78% connection
To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
Dunnage
noun · 78% connection
Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
Escarpment
noun · 78% connection
A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hos…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
Fabric
noun · 78% connection
The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
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: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
Gingham
noun · 78% connection
A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from pri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, cloth, woven, prevent, raveling.
