Word Meanings - BRATTICE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation. Planking to support a roof or wall.

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• PLANKING
  1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• SHAFTING
  Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
• VENTILATION
  1. The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a house, a church, a mine, etc.; free exposure to air. Insuring, for the laboring man, better
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• PLANKTON
  All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters. --Plank*ton"ic , a.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• SHAFTMAN; SHAFTMENT
  A measure of about six inches.
• SHAFT
  A rod at the end of a heddle. A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam
• SHAFTED
  Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures. (more info) 1. Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch.
• SUPPORTER
  A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
• PLANK-SHEER
  The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessel's frame.
• SUPPORTMENT
  Support. Sir H. Wotton.
• GALLERY
  A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern galery or quarter gallry, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850. (more info) galeria gallery, perh. orig., a festal hall, banquetting hall; cf.
• SUPPORT
  convey, in LL., to support, sustain; sub under + portare to carry. 1. To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an
• SUPPORTRESS
  A female supporter. You are my gracious patroness and supportress. Massinger.
• PLANK
  1. A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board. 2. Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer. His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot.
• SUPPORTANCE
  Support. Shak.
• SEPARATION
  The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate. Specifically: Chemical analysis. Divorce. The operation of removing water from steam. Judicial separation , a form of divorce; a separation of man and wife which has the effect
• WAY SHAFT
  A rock shaft.
• EVENTILATION
  The act of eventilating; discussion. Bp. Berkely.
• AIR SHAFT
  A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.
• INSUPPORTABLE
  Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• UNSUPPORTABLE
  Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• ROCK SHAFT
  A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and