Word Meanings - BRIDGEPOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle. Knight.

Related words: (words related to BRIDGEPOT)

• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• SPINDLESHANKS
  A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt.
• SPINDLEWORM
  The larva of a noctuid mmoth which feeds inside the stalks of corn , sometimes causing much damage. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment.
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• SPINDLETAIL
  The pintail duck.
• KNIGHT BACHELOR
  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
• SPINDLE
  The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc. The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns. A shaft or pipe on which a
• KNIGHT-ERRANTRY
  The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme. The rigid guardian of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'errun. Young.
• MILLSTONE
  One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance. No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge. Deut. xxiv. 6. Note: The cellular siliceous rock called buhrstone is usually employed for millstones; also, some
• KNIGHT TEMPLAR
  See 3
• KNIGHTLY
  Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit. For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit. Spenser. full knightly without scorn. Tennyson.
• SPINDLE-SHANKED
  Having long, slender legs. Addison.
• KNIGHT SERVICE
  A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.
• KNIGHTHOOD
  1. The character, dignity, or condition of a knight, or of knights as a class; hence, chivalry. "O shame to knighthood." Shak. If you needs must write, write Cæsar's praise; You 'll gain at least a knighthood, or the bays. Pope. 2. The whole body
• KNIGHT'S FEE
  The fee of a knight; specif., the amount of land the holding of which imposed the obligation of knight service, being sometimes a hide or less, sometimes six or more hides.
• KNIGHT-ER-RATIC
  Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry. Quart. Rev.
• KNIGHT SERVICE; KNIGHT'S SERVICE
  1. The military service by rendering which a knight held his lands; also, the tenure of lands held on condition of performing military service. By far the greater part of England is held of the king by knight's service. . . . In
• KNIGHT-ERRANT
  A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.
• KNIGHT MARSHAL
  An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties. Wharton.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• ALE-KNIGHT
  A pot companion.
• BURR MILLSTONE
  See BUHRSTONE