Setbolt: alternatives and connections

The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected pa…

A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board…

To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room.

A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called al…

The platforms, consisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.

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 (…

The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a m…

Pertaining to, or derived from, iron; -- especially used of compounds of iron in which the iron has its lower valence; as, ferrous sul…

A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.

One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.

To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by…

To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; als…

Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant.

Outward appearance; attire; dress; hence, a garment; esp., a closely fitting garment or dress worn by ladies; as, a riding habit.

To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.

(genetics) a combination of alleles (for different genes) that are located closely together on the same chromosome and that tend to be…

An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral cryst…

The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite,…