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HOLES |
Pits |
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MINES |
Mineral pits |
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OILWELLS |
Petroleum pits |
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SUMPS |
Drainage pits |
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FOVEATE |
Having pits or depressions; pitted. |
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SEASHELL |
Ocean’s the pits for empty conch |
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EXAMINES |
Inspects former leading African coal pits |
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FORCER |
A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc. |
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PITTED |
Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2. |
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FOVEOLATE |
Having small pits or depression, as the receptacle in
some composite flowers. |
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PUNCTATED |
Dotted with small spots of color, or with minute
depressions or pits. |
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PITTER |
A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums,
and other stone fruit. |
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SCAB |
A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused
by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies). |
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VARIOLOUS |
Of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken
impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic. |
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WELLDRAIN |
To drain, as land; by means of wells, or pits, which
receive the water, and from which it is discharged by machinery. |
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BAY SALT |
Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation
in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large
crystalline salt of commerce. |
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SCALARIFORM |
Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having
transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the
scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants. |
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WINCE |
A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch.
It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to
allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will. |
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TROU-DE-LOUP |
A pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid,
constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a
pointed stake in the middle. The pits are called also trapholes. |
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VESSEL |
...lindrical
or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening
partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals... |
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MINE |
...llic
ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by
digging; -- distinguished from the pits from which stones for
arch... |
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COSTEANING |
The process by which miners seek to discover metallic
lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial
deposits to the solid roc... |
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THIMBLE |
... and has
upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the
needle. ... |
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ALLIGATOR |
...ly,
peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the
crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the
up... |