drift
leeway
weather roll
between wind and water
gamber
athwartships
departure
oblique sailing
gybe
course
spring line
beam
buttock
driftage
laniard
turbosail
Irish pennant
lanyard
athwartship
carina
amidships
heading
spring
entrance
point of sail
mid-drift
splitwheel
squirt
propwash
sternway
cutwater
head reach
weatherboard
tack
whaleback
muzzler
sheer
rhumb sailing
snubbing post
club haul
lee
bifurcation
leg
apeak
sail curve
bilge
course to steer
roll
seaway
ship route
rhumb line
poling boat
whaleboat
drifter
fore-and-aft
sea lane
scend
trade route
square-rigger
driftingly
lubber's mark
pitch
water line
lubber line
lubber's point
pitching
metacentre
link
full clew
downdrift
heaving line
lubber's line
rigol
steerageway
lurch
forebody
enlarge
sea anchor
above-water
load line
turning circle
eddying
bow wave
mule
yaw
a taunto
inner jib
flying jib
lifeline
spiling
skitter
backtroll
knuckle
athwartship
fore-and-aft
above-water
a taunto
athwartships
amidships
mid-drift
apeak
driftingly
downdrift
drift
leeway
weather roll
gamber
departure
oblique sailing
gybe
course
spring line
beam
buttock
driftage
laniard
turbosail
Irish pennant
lanyard
carina
heading
spring
entrance
point of sail
splitwheel
squirt
propwash
sternway
cutwater
head reach
weatherboard
tack
whaleback
muzzler
sheer
rhumb sailing
snubbing post
lee
bifurcation
leg
sail curve
bilge
course to steer
roll
seaway
ship route
rhumb line
poling boat
whaleboat
drifter
sea lane
scend
trade route
square-rigger
lubber's mark
pitch
water line
lubber line
lubber's point
pitching
metacentre
link
full clew
heaving line
lubber's line
rigol
steerageway
lurch
forebody
sea anchor
load line
turning circle
eddying
bow wave
mule
yaw
inner jib
flying jib
lifeline
spiling
knuckle
club haul
squirt
enlarge
skitter
backtroll
noun
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- Slow, cumulative change.
- A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
- In New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to be sold.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- Anything driven at random.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
verb
- To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
- To move haphazardly without any destination.
- To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- To drive into heaps.
- To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
noun
- The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.
- A deviation from a plan or procedure.
- The act of departing or something that has departed.
- There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.
- The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.
- The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another
- A death.
noun
- A sudden shift of a sail's angle, or a sudden change in the direction that a vessel is sailing in.
- A manoeuvre in which the stern of a sailing vessel crosses the wind, typically resulting in the forceful and sudden sweep of the boom from one side of the vessel to the other.
- A sudden change in approach or direction; vacillation.
verb
- To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind.
- Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other.
- Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel.
noun
- The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
- The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
- Any ordered process or sequence of steps.
- The drive usually frequented by Europeans at an Indian station.
- A path that something or someone moves along.
- The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
- The itinerary of a race.
- A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
- A row of bricks or blocks.
- One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to played together.
- A learning programme, whether a single class or (UK) a major area of study.
- A normal or customary sequence.
- The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
- The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
- In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
- The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
- A golf course.
- A treatment plan.
- A stage of a meal.
- A sequence of events.
- A racecourse.
- A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
verb
noun
- The direction across a vessel, perpendicular to fore-and-aft.
- One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
- A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
- The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam).
- One of the principal horizontal structural members, usually of steel, timber, or concrete, of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones.
- The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
- Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
- The pole of a carriage or chariot.
- A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
- In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.
- A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.
- The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
- The straight part or shank of an anchor.
- A ray; a gleam.
- An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
- The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
verb
- To put (something) on a beam.
- To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
- To emit beams of light; to shine; to radiate.
- To stretch something (for example, an animal hide) on a beam.
- To furnish or supply with beams.
- To give the appearance of beams to.
- To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
- To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.
- To transmit, especially by direct wireless means such as infrared.
noun
- The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
- The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
- A strip of material at the hoist end of a flag, used for attaching the flag to its halyard.
- The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
- Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
- A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
- The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
noun
- A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- An erection of the penis.
- The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- A race, a lineage.
- a period of political liberalization and democratization
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- A youth.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
adj
verb
- To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
- to descend or originate from.
- To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
- To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- To have something crack.
- To grow taller or longer.
- to catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
- To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- To extend, to curve.
- To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
- To cause to rise from cover.
- To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
- To cause to crack.
- to arise, to come into existence.
- To build, to form the initial curve of.
- To gush, to flow out of the ground.
- To rise from cover.
- To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- To bring forth.
- To sprout, to grow,
- To crack.
- To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- To come upon and flush out
- To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- To come dramatically into view.
- To spend the springtime somewhere
- To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
- to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
- to find or get enough food during springtime.
- To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
- To be born, descend, or originate from
- To appear, to dawn.
- To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
noun
- The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
- The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.
- The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
- The right to go in.
- The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
- The action of entering, or going in.
- The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.
- The beginning of a musician's playing or singing; entry.
- The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.
verb
noun
- A maneuver in which the boat is forced into a nearly vertical position.
- The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.
- A small child.
- An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
- An act of urination.
- Female ejaculate.
- An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper.
- A small, quick stream; a jet.
- A burst of noise.
verb
- To forcefully maneuver against the current so that the end of the boat is forced nearly vertical.
- To emit, eject or excrete (something).
- To ejaculate.
- To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
- To hit with a rapid stream of liquid.
- To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
noun
- The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
- A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
- Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
- The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
- A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
- The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
- That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
- A small nail with a flat head.
- A stain; a tache.
- That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
- A direction or course of action, especially a new one.
- A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
- Food generally; fare, especially of the bread kind.
- A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
- A thumbtack.
- The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
verb
- To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
- To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
- To add something as an extra item.
- To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
- to tack (something) onto (something)
- To place the tack on a horse; often paired with "up".
noun
- The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward.
- The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.
- A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
- A division into two branches.
- Any place where one thing divides into two.
- Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division.
- A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.
- The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.
noun
- (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
- a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
- a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
- one of the supports for a piece of furniture
- a part of a forked or branching shape
- the limb of an animal used for food
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg
- a section or portion of a journey or course
noun
- The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
- A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
- A heavy, reverberatory sound.
- A swagger or rolling gait.
- A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
- A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
- A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
- The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
- Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
- A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
- That which is rolled up.
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- An official or public document; a register; a record.
- An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
- A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
verb
- To travel by sailing.
- To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
- To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
- To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
- To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
- To leave or begin a journey.
- To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
- To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
- To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
- To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.
- To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
- To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
- To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
- To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
- To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
- To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- to move and cause an effect on someone
- To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
- To throw dice.
- To generate a random number.
- To have a rolling aspect.
- To create a customized version of.
- To (cause to) film.
- To utter with an alveolar trill.
- To beat up; to assault.
- To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
- To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
- To compete, especially with vigor.
- To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
- To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
- To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- To turn over and over.
- To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
- To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
- To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
- To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
- To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
- To betray secrets.
noun
- A boat used for drift fishing.
- A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide or power slide rather than drive in line with the tires.
- A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker.
- A parachutist who jumps before the rest of the group to determine wind direction.
- A person employed in driving in rock other than coal.
- One who takes part in drift fishing.
- A person who moves from place to place or job to job.
noun
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- a high approach shot in golf
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- the action or manner of throwing something
verb
- throw or toss with a light motion
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- be at an angle
- heel over
- erect and fasten
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- set the level or character of
noun
- Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel. In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several heights; in a sheer plan, they are projected as straight horizontal lines.
- Any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded.
- The level at which water meets land along the shore of a body of water.
- The line corresponding to the surface of the water touching any submerged object or body.
- the outline of a horizontal section of a vessel, as when floating in the water.
noun
- The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
- One element of a chain or other connected series.
- Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
- The connection between buses or systems.
- a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
- A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
- A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
- An introductory cue.
- Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
- The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
- Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
- A sausage that is not a patty.
- A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
- an individual person or element in a system
verb
- To meet with someone.
- To contain a hyperlink to another page.
- To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
- To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
- To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
- To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
- To connect two or more things.
- To post a hyperlink to.
verb
- To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
- To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
- To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
- To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
- To make (something) larger.
- To grow larger.
noun
- The path followed by a vessel’s center of gravity when it makes a complete turn of 360° with a consistent rudder angle. (FM 55-501)
- The circular path formed by the wheel furthest from the centre of the turn when turning to the maximum extent.
- A place where a vehicle can turn and face in the opposite direction.
noun
- A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.
- The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
- A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
- Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
- The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
- A stubborn person.
- A kind of cotton-spinning machine.
- A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.
- A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.
- A person paid to smuggle drugs.
verb
noun
- A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
- The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
- The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
- A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
- The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
verb
- To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
- To swerve off course to port or starboard.
- To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
- To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
noun
- On the deck of a boat, a line to which one can attach oneself to stay aboard on rough seas.
- A particular crease in the palm.
- A line from the diver to a tender at the surface control point.
- A line to which a drowning or falling victim may cling.
- A means or route for transporting indispensable supplies.
- System or structure of vital importance to a community.
- A source of salvation in a crisis.
noun
- A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
- The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
- A cut of meat.
- The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
- A mechanical joint.
- The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.
- Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers.
- A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.
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English words for 'The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.'
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