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TAPERS |
Narrows at one end |
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ABUTS |
Touches at one end |
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ABUT |
Touch at one end |
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DEDANS |
A division, at one end of a tennis court, for spectators. |
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CROWBAR |
A bar of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever. |
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LOPER |
A swivel at one end of a ropewalk, used in laying the
strands. |
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TIPPET |
A handful of straw bound together at one end, and used for
thatching. |
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CUL-DE-SAC |
Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ,
open only at one end. |
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CANTALEVER |
A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the
outer end; one which overhangs. |
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CAECUM |
A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or
duct. |
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PORTAL |
The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these
are terminated by inclined braces. |
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BOW NET |
A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a
funnel-shaped entrance at one end. |
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UNDERSIGN |
To write one's name at the foot or end of, as a
letter or any legal instrument. |
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CROUPIER |
One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end
of the table as assistant chairman. |
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TAIL |
One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting
the bandage one or more times. |
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KALPA |
One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years.
At the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated. |
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BLOODSTICK |
A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and
used to strike the fleam into the vein. |
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RUDDERPOST |
The shank of a rudder, having the blade at one end and
the attachments for operating it at the other. |
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NEEDLE |
A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end,
with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. |
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BLIND |
Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall;
open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut. |
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AFFIX |
That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more
letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix. |
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PINCH |
A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum,
-- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar. |
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PLACE |
A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or
short part of a street open only at one end. |
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STEEVE |
A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton
bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to be packed tightly. |
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FLAGELLATA |
An order of Infusoria, having one or two long,
whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See Infusoria,
and Monad. |