sill
base
foot
groundwork
substructure
foundation
understructure
fundament
bracing
brace
stringer
stull
bolster
cage
crossmember
timbering
horizontal
carpentry
dwang
projection
kneepiece
truss
nonbearing
beam
false rail
tie
barring
heel
ligger
falsework
peckerwood sawmill
superfoot
cruck
setworks
stringpiece
cross-halving joint
batten
clearspan
touch
transom
BBBB
puncheon
stealer
crib
pilot ladder
piling
jack ladder
timber-framed
pole plate
Jacob's ladder
post
tread
straining piece
cramp
soap
skid
joint
groundsill
scantling
wale
squeeze
plank
stumpage
forefoot
hook ladder
-zygous
stretcher
top out
scarf
top
scarf joint
standard
sole
hyperbranched
chipyard
straight-grained
footplate
splocket
toggle
timberwork
glulam
raising piece
untimbered
upright
wedging
gripe
buck
endspan
tie beam
fashion piece
peckerwood
midspan
horse
sawhorse
sawbuck
nonbearing
timber-framed
hyperbranched
straight-grained
untimbered
sill
base
foot
groundwork
substructure
foundation
understructure
fundament
bracing
brace
stringer
stull
bolster
cage
crossmember
timbering
horizontal
carpentry
dwang
projection
kneepiece
truss
beam
false rail
tie
barring
heel
ligger
falsework
peckerwood sawmill
superfoot
cruck
setworks
stringpiece
cross-halving joint
batten
clearspan
touch
transom
BBBB
puncheon
stealer
crib
pilot ladder
piling
jack ladder
pole plate
Jacob's ladder
post
tread
straining piece
cramp
soap
skid
joint
groundsill
scantling
wale
squeeze
plank
stumpage
forefoot
hook ladder
stretcher
scarf
scarf joint
standard
sole
chipyard
footplate
splocket
toggle
timberwork
glulam
raising piece
upright
wedging
gripe
buck
endspan
tie beam
fashion piece
peckerwood
midspan
horse
sawhorse
sawbuck
top out
top
noun
- lowest support of a structure
- installation from which a military force initiates operations
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- the bottom or lowest part
- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
- a lower limit
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- a support or foundation
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
- the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
- the most important or necessary part of something
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
- the principal ingredient of a mixture
- a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
- (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
adj
- serving as or forming a base
- of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
- (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
- illegitimate
- debased; not genuine
verb
noun
- lowest support of a structure
- the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
- a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
- the lower part of anything
- the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
- any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
- travel by walking
- a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
- (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
- a support resembling a pedal extremity
verb
noun
- lowest support of a structure
- the basis on which something is grounded
- an institution supported by an endowment
- education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body
- the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
noun
- a structural member used to stiffen a framework
- a support that steadies or strengthens something else
- two items of the same kind
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material
- a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
- elastic straps that hold trousers up
- an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
- a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
verb
noun
- A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.
- The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
- A large cushion or pillow.
- A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
- The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
- A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
- A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
- The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
- A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.
- The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
verb
noun
- An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
- The catcher's wire mask.
- A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
- In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.
- An automobile.
- The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
- The passenger compartment of a lift.
- The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
- Something that hinders freedom.
- The goal.
- An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
- A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
- A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
verb
- To immobilize an artificial horizon.
- To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
- To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
- To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
noun
- any structure that branches out from a central support
- a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
- the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
- a planned undertaking
- any solid convex shape that juts out from something
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
- the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
- the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
- the act of projecting out from something
- the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
noun
- A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.
- The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.
- A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
- A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.
- A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
- A triangular bracket.
- Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
- An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
verb
noun
- 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.
- 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).
- The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
- The direction across a vessel, perpendicular to fore-and-aft.
- 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
- A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- A tiewig.
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
- A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- A knot; a fastening.
- A lace-up shoe.
- A connection between two vertices.
- One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- A strong connection between people or groups of people.
- A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
verb
- To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- To secure (something) by string or the like.
- To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
noun
- The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter.
- 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.
- The junction between the keel and the stempost of a vessel; an angular wooden join connecting the two.
- 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.
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
- The horizontal timber of a scaffolding; a ledger.
- A baited fishing line attached to a float, for night fishing, etc.
- A kelt (“thin, recently spawned salmon”).
- A simply supported plank over a stream used as a footbridge.
- A freeloader or hanger-on, especially in the music or entertainment industry.
- One who lies in bed.
- A nether millstone.
- A coverlet for a bed.
- A layer.
noun
- A thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point.
- A long strip of wood, metal, fibreglass etc., used for various purposes aboard ship, especially one inserted in a pocket sewn on the sail in order to keep the sail flat.
- The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
- In stagecraft, a long pipe, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system in a theater.
verb
- To furnish with battens.
- To fasten or secure a hatch etc using battens.
- To thrive by feeding; grow fat; feed oneself gluttonously.
- To fertilize or enrich, as land.
- To improve by feeding; fatten; make fat or cause to thrive due to plenteous feeding.
- To thrive, prosper, or live in luxury, especially at the expense of others; fare sumptuously.
- To gratify a morbid appetite or craving; gloat.
- To feed (on); to revel (in).
- To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding.
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
- 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
- A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud.
- A piece of roughly dressed timber with one face finished flat (by either hewing or sawing).
- A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.
- A split log or heavy slab of timber with the face smoothed, used especially for flooring but also for log cabin walls, piers, or plank roads.
- A type of cask used to hold liquids, having a capacity varying from 72 to 120 gallons; a tercian.
- A short low bridge of similar construction. Also called puncheon bridge.
- A walkway or short, low footbridge over wet ground constructed with such timbers, made by laying one or more planks or dressed timbers over sills set directly on the ground; also called duck boards, bog boards, or bog bridge.
noun
- A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
- A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
- A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
- A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
- A bed for a child older than a baby.
- One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
- A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
- A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
- A wicker basket.
- A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
- The card game cribbage.
- A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
- A small raft made of timber.
- A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
- A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
- A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
- A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
- The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
- The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
- A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
- A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
verb
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
- To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
- To place or confine in a crib.
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
- To complain, to grumble
- To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
noun
- an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position
- the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
- military installation at which a body of troops is stationed
- a job in an organization
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- A message on a social media website
- the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
- the delivery and collection of letters and packages
verb
- affix in a public place or for public notice
- publicize with, or as if with, a poster
- assign to a post; put into a post
- assign to a station
- display, as of records in sports games
- enter on a public list
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait
- mark with a stake
- place so as to be noticed
- cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
- mark or expose as infamous
- To post a message on a social media website
noun
- A solid masonry unit or brick reduced in depth or height from standard dimensions.
- sodium pentothal
- A soap opera.
- Some other substance, often a detergent or another surfactant, able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning.
- A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products.
- Money, specially when used as a bribe.
verb
noun
- One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.
- A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
- A runner of a sled.
- (also losing skid) A losing streak.
- Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it when handling cargo.
- A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
- A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.
- A stepchild.
- A script kiddie.
- A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
- An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.
- A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill.
verb
- To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.
- To protect or support with a skid or skids.
- To cause to move on skids.
- To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
- (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
- To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.
noun
- The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
- A marijuana cigarette.
- The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
- A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.
- The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
- A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries.
- Prison.
- The penis.
- The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
- Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
- A thing.
- A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
verb
- To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
- To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
- To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
- To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
- To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
adj
noun
- A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.
- A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
- A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
- A ridge or low barrier.
- A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
- Something selected as being the best, preference; choice.
- The texture of a piece of fabric.
- A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)
- A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy.
verb
noun
- The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
- The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
- An instance of squeezing.
- A close or tight fit.
- An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the result with fruit juice.
- A difficult position.
- A moulding, cast or other impression of an object, chiefly a design, inscription etc., especially by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling off when dry.
- A traversal of a narrow passage.
- A romantic partner.
- A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
- A hug or other affectionate grasp.
verb
- To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
- To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
- To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
- To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.
- To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
- To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
- To fit into a tight place.
noun
- A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.
- Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.
- A stupid person, idiot.
- That which supports or upholds.
- A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.
verb
- To cover something with planking.
- To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.
- To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.
- To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
- To bake (fish, etc.) on a piece of cedar lumber.
- To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
noun
- A piece of timber used in building.
- One who, or that which, stretches.
- One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
- A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
- A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
- A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
- A board against which a rower places his feet.
- A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
- A brick laid with the longest side exposed (compare header).
verb
verb
- provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
- be superior or better than some standard
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point
- be ahead of others; be the first
- reach or ascend the top of
- strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin
- cut the top off
- be the culminating event
- finish up or conclude
adj
noun
- the upper part of anything
- the highest or uppermost side of anything
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the greatest possible intensity
- platform surrounding the head of a lower mast
- a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
- a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips
- a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
noun
- An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
- Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
- The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
- A level of quality or attainment.
- The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
- The sheth of a plough.
- A collar of mail protecting the neck.
- A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
- One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
- A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.
- Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
- A manual transmission vehicle.
- A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
- A large drinking cup.
- standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language
- A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
- A musical work of established popularity.
- An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
- The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
- Grade level in primary education.
intj
adj
- Having a manual transmission.
- Conforming to the standard variety.
- Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
- As normally supplied (not optional).
- Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
- Having recognized excellence or authority.
- Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
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
- A timber in a wood frame that distributes a concentrated load.
- A platform on which the driver's foot rests but which, unlike a pedal, has no effect.
- The metal plate which forms the base platform of a steam locomotive and supports the boiler and the driver's cab, particularly in the United Kingdom.
- The engineer's cab in any kind of train.
- The flat portion at the base of the stapes; pedicel.
- The part of a roller skate that attaches to the boot.
verb
noun
- A horizontal piece of wood that is placed on a door, flat, or other wooden structure, but is not on one of the edges of the structure.
- A fastener that has flaps that align vertically to penetrate a surface and then spread out to secure the fastener in position, e.g. a molly bolt.
- A wooden or metal pin, short rod, crosspiece or similar, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope or chain to be secured to any other loop, ring, or bight, e.g. a sea painter to a lifeboat.
- A rod-shaped button bound with slack to the fabric.
- An appliance for transmitting force at right angles to its direction.
- A loop of webbing or a dowel affixed to the end of the steering/brake lines of a parachute providing the pilot with a means of control.
- A toggle switch.
verb
noun
- The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
- A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
- A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
- The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
- Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
- An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
verb
noun
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
- solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
- a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
- troops trained to fight on horseback
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
verb
English words for 'structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure'
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