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BRIM |
Upper edge |
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GUNNEL |
Ship’s upper edge |
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NECKLINE |
Upper edge of dress |
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RIM |
Upper or outer edge |
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GAFF |
The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is
extended. |
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HEADROPE |
That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge
or head of a sail. |
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HATCH |
A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set
with spikes on the upper edge. |
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BROW |
The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the
brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill. |
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YOKE |
A band shaped to fit the shoulders or the hips, and joined to
the upper full edge of the waist or the skirt. |
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STEPHANION |
The point on the side of the skull where the temporal
line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture. |
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FLOUNCE |
An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress,
consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around
the skirt, and left hanging. |
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ENMANCHE |
Resembling, or covered with, a sleeve; -- said of the
chief when lines are drawn from the middle point of the upper edge
upper edge to the sides. |
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CLIP |
A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned
up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip
and beak. |
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CLINKER-BUILT |
Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that
the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below
it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak. |
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CALK |
To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as
along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of
the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice. |
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CUTWATER |
...r of a
bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to
resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of th... |
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TOP |
The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or
extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid;
as, the top of a ... |
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GUNWALE |
The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost
wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber
which reaches o... |