deadwood
ceiling
shole
stem
counter
gaff
weigh the anchor
weigh anchor
skeg
wale
backstay
aft
rudderhead
cross-trees
touch
stealer
stempost
plancher
flush deck
sheeting
sternpost
capstan screw
rudderstock
quarterdeck
afterdeck
rider plate
rudderpost
top
heel
ratlin
rider
ratline
clew
thwart
tail
sprit
topgallant
tumble home
spiling
foretack
sailfin
capstan
ruddered
keelson
fore-and-aft
sole
steeve
forehood
horn timber
plank-sheer
cunningham
carrick bitt
sny
abaft
trend
guy
fife rail
aftcastle
rake
pushpit
keel
square
false keel
foredeck
buntline
fall home
bend
gaff sail
summercastle
sternson
snying
nock
forestay
planklike
mainsheet
ratch
becue
wishbone
shroud
hydroplane
outrigged
pulpit
cable-stayed bridge
hip
poop deck
kicking strap
tack
transom
sheet
sternsheets
sternwards
clew-garnet
foretopsail
shank-painter
rode
bridgeboard
aft
ruddered
fore-and-aft
square
planklike
outrigged
abaft
sternwards
deadwood
ceiling
shole
stem
counter
gaff
skeg
wale
backstay
rudderhead
cross-trees
touch
stealer
stempost
plancher
flush deck
sheeting
sternpost
capstan screw
rudderstock
quarterdeck
afterdeck
rider plate
rudderpost
top
heel
ratlin
rider
ratline
thwart
sprit
topgallant
spiling
foretack
sailfin
capstan
keelson
sole
steeve
forehood
horn timber
plank-sheer
cunningham
carrick bitt
sny
trend
guy
fife rail
aftcastle
rake
pushpit
keel
false keel
foredeck
buntline
bend
gaff sail
summercastle
sternson
snying
nock
forestay
mainsheet
wishbone
shroud
hydroplane
pulpit
cable-stayed bridge
hip
poop deck
kicking strap
tack
transom
sheet
sternsheets
clew-garnet
foretopsail
shank-painter
rode
bridgeboard
weigh the anchor
weigh anchor
clew
tail
tumble home
keel
fall home
ratch
becue
noun
- Vertical planks between the keel and the sternpost that act as reinforcement.
- Money not realized by exiting a winning pump trade too early.
- Cards that have been discarded.
- People or things judged to be superfluous to an organization or project.
- Dead branches or wood on a tree, or coarse woody debris.
- Pins that have fallen and have not been cleared from the alley.
- Structural material on a load-carrying vehicle that reduces the available cargo space.
- Cards in a hand that do not contribute to sets and which are usually counted as points against the player holding the hand.
noun
- The inner planking of a vessel.
- The highest altitude at which an aircraft can safely maintain flight.
- The overhead interior surface that covers the upper limits of a room.
- The smallest integer greater than or equal to a given number.
- The upper limit of an object or action.
- The measurement of visible distance from ground or sea level to an overcast cloud cover; under a clear sky, the ceiling measurement is identified as "unlimited."
- The overhead closure of a room.
- The maximum permitted level in a financial transaction.
noun
- The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
- A lesbian, chiefly African-American, exhibiting both stud and femme traits.
- A branch of a family.
- A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
- The penis.
- A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
- A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
- A person's leg.
- A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
- A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
- A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
- A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
- A vertical stroke of a letter.
- A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
- The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
- An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
verb
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
- To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
- To be caused or derived; to originate.
- To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- To descend in a family line.
- To remove the stem from.
noun
- The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
adj
verb
- To contradict, oppose.
- To take action in response to; to respond.
- To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
adv
noun
- A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)
- A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
- A ridge or low barrier.
- A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.
- A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
- A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
- Something selected as being the best, preference; choice.
- The texture of a piece of fabric.
- A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy.
verb
noun
- A part of the rigging of a sailing ship extending from masthead the top of the mast to the back of the ship; they support the strain on all upper masts and provide additional support to the shrouds when the wind is abaft the beam.
- A strengthening or supporting piece that is built into the back of something.
noun
- The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- The children's game of tag.
- A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of borrowing or stealing something.
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- Form; standard of performance.
verb
- To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
- To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- To concern, to have to do with.
- To make physical contact with a thing.
- To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- To consume, or otherwise use.
- To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- To come close to; to approach.
noun
- Mainly on sailboats, the mechanism for winding ropes under a lot of tension; a capstan.
- A type of screw commonly used to regulate the height of the action in a piano. The capstan screw is designed to be turned from the side, not the head, unlike an ordinary screw. A lever enters a hole in the side of the screw to turn it.
noun
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- A stroke on the top of the ball.
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- A top quark.
- A lid, cap or cover of a container.
- A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
- the part of something that is usually the top.
- The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
- A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin
- (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
- A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.
- A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- Highest pitch or loudest volume.
- The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- Oral stimulation of the male member, a blowjob.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- The near end of somewhere
- A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
verb
- To anally penetrate in gay sex.
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
- To commit suicide.
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- To murder.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
- To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- To cover with another dye.
- To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
adv
adj
noun
- The junction between the keel and the stempost of a vessel; an angular wooden join connecting the two.
- The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.
- A woman's high-heeled shoe.
- Anything resembling a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
- The base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.
- The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
- The last or lowest part of anything.
- The short side of an angled cut.
- A headlining wrestler regarded as a "bad guy," whose ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits and demonstrates characteristics of a braggart and a bully.
- The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.
- In a carding machine, the part of a flat nearest the cylinder.
- A contemptible, unscrupulous, inconsiderate or thoughtless person.
- The part of a club head's face nearest the shaft.
- The obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
- The lower end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead; as opposed to the toe (upper end).
- The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
- The back, upper part of the stock.
- The part of the palm of a hand closest to the wrist.
- The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.
- A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter.
verb
- To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).
- To incline to one side; to tilt.
- To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
- To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
- To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.
- To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.
- To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot forward, the heel on the ground and the toe up.
- To kick with the heel.
noun
- An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen the frame.
- An amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements.
- A small, sliding piece of thin metal on a balance, used to determine small weights.
- Someone riding in a vehicle; a passenger on public transport.
- A supplementary question, now especially in mathematics.
- The first Lenormand card, also known as either the horseman or the cavalier.
- The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
- A supplementary clause added to a document after drafting, especially to a bill under the consideration of a legislature.
- Someone who rides a horse or (later) a bicycle, motorcycle etc.
- An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
- A knight, or other mounted warrior.
- An additional matter or question arising in corollary; a qualification.
- A piece, such as the rook or bishop, which moves any distance in one direction, as long as no other piece is in the way.
verb
noun
- Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.
- The cords suspending a hammock.
- The sheets so attached to a sail.
- The lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. (on a triangular sail) The trailing corner relative to the wind direction.
noun
- A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
- A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
- An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.
verb
adj
verb
- To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- To pull or draw by the tail.
adj
noun
- All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- Sexual intercourse.
- Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”)
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
- A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
- The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
- A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- The penis of a person or animal.
- A tailing.
- The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
- The distal tendon of a muscle.
- The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
- The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- The stern; the back of the kayak.
- The buttocks or backside.
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
noun
- A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
- The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
- The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
- The bottom of a furrow.
- The bottom of a shoe or boot.
- The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
- The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
- The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
- Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae.
- The bottom of an embrasure.
- The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
- A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
adj
- Unique; unsurpassed.
- With independent power; unfettered.
- Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
- Only.
verb
noun
- The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.
- The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill.
- A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points.
- A tendency.
- An inclination in a particular direction.
- A fad or fashion style.
verb
noun
- A support to secure or steady structures prone to shift their position or be carried away (e.g. the mast of a ship or a suspension bridge).
- A support rope or cable used to aid in hoisting or lowering.
- An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
- Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man.
- character, personality (not referring to a person, but pretending to)
- A person (see usage notes).
- A man, fellow.
verb
noun
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
- A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A lot, plenty.
- A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- The act of raking.
- In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
- A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- Rate of progress; pace, speed.
verb
- Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To search through (thoroughly).
- To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
adj
- Forming right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
- Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
- Shaped like a square (the polygon).
- Honest; straightforward; fair.
- Even; tied
- Solid, decent, substantial.
- Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
- Socially conventional; boring.
- Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not racked or leaning.
- Forming a right angle (90°).
- In line with the batsman's popping crease.
- Satisfied; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict.
- Hypernyms: rectangular, polygonal
noun
- An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
- A well-defined core of a human body, a flat section from the fundament to the thoracic diaphragm.
- A cell in a grid.
- The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
- An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
- A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
- A square piece, part, or surface.
- The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
- A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
- A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
- A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
- A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends: still sometimes used in modern terminology.
- The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
- Cigarette.
- The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
- A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
- A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
- The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
- A mortarboard.
- The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
- A vat used for fermentation.
- A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
adv
verb
- To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
- Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
- To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
- To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
- To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
- To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
- To hold a quartile position respecting.
- To form with four sides and four right angles.
- To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
- To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
- To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
- To tile (completely fill) with squares.
- To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular
- To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
- To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
noun
- The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
- Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- A curve.
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
- One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
- A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
- A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
verb
- To stoop.
- To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- To cause to change direction.
- To change direction.
- To force to submit.
- To submit.
- To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- To apply to a task or purpose.
- To become curved.
- To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- To be inclined; to direct itself.
- To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- To swing the body when rowing.
noun
- A spar in two parts, between which a sail is hoisted, the wishbone extending its clew.
- A suspension component similar in shape to a chicken wishbone.
- Any sailing vessel rigged with a wishbone.
- A particular kind of offensive formation. See wishbone formation.
- A forked bone between the neck and breast of a bird consisting chiefly of the two clavicles fused at their median or lower end, regarded as a lucky charm in some countries.
noun
- The wing of a submarine, used to help control depth
- A specific type of motorboat used exclusively for racing.
- A hydrofoil (“boat type”)
- A seaplane; any aircraft capable of taking off from, and alighting on the surface of water.
- A hydrofoil (“hydrodynamic surface”)
verb
- To skim the surface of a body of water while moving at high speed.
- For a car or similar vehicle to slide along the road on a thin film of water between the road and the tyres. This occurs when a car has some speed and comes to somewhere with more water on the road than the weight of the car and the grooves in the tyre tread pattern (if any) can push away. The result is almost no traction at all for steering or braking.
noun
- The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck. It is sometimes referred to as bow pulpit. The railing at the stern of the boat is sometimes referred to as a stern pulpit; other texts use the term pushpit.
- A raised desk, lectern, or platform for an orator or public speaker.
- A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon.
- A bow platform for harpooning.
- Activity performed from a church pulpit, in other words, preaching, sermons, religious teaching, the preaching profession, preachers collectively or an individual preaching position; by extension: bully pulpit.
noun
- In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
- The fruit of a rose.
- The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
- The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
verb
- To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
- To inform, to make knowledgeable.
- To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
- To use one's hips to bump into someone.
- To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
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intj
noun
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails
- a short nail with a sharp point and a large head
- gear for a horse
- (nautical) the act of changing tack
- sailing a zigzag course
verb
noun
- Any of several transverse structural members in a ship, especially at the stern; a thwart.
- The flat or nearly flat stern of a boat or ship.
- The horizontal beam on a cross or gallows.
- A crosspiece over a door; a lintel.
- Items that have arrived over the transom.
- A transom window.
- A horizontal dividing bar in a window.
noun
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- any broad thin expanse or surface
- paper used for writing or printing
- bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs
- (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
- newspaper with half-size pages
- a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width
- a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
verb
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