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DRIFTS |
Floats |
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BUOYS |
Anchored floats (naut) |
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HOVERS |
Floats in the air |
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SEAPLANES |
Aircraft equipped with floats |
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FLOATER |
One who floats or swims. |
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WAFTS |
Floats on breeze outside waterfront lifts |
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FLOTAGE |
That which floats on the sea or in rivers. |
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STREAMER |
An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind;
specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag. |
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PADDLE |
One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference
of a water wheel, or paddle wheel. |
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WATER LETTUCE |
A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical
waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves. |
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FLOAT |
The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which
floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler. |
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AEROPLANE |
A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on
flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it. |
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BACKBOARD |
A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent
the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of
the wheel. |
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DANAIDE |
A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and
outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached
usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one. |
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SEINE |
A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and
the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its
ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish. |
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CAREEN |
To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on
one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for
repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel. |
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LOGROLLING |
The act or process of rolling logs from the place where
they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to
market. In this l... |
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DRAG |
...er under
sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between
the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel... |
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NORIA |
A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream
against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which
water is raised a... |
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ICE |
... C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats. ... |
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SIPHONOPHORA |
... which form complex free-swimming communities composed of numerous
zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming
organs, o... |
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TURBINE |
...structed,
but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which
the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either out... |