Word Meanings - CABLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.

Related words: (words related to CABLING)

• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• SHAFTING
  Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• FLUTING
  Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle. Fluting iron, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• FLUTED
  1. Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes. Busby. 2. Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.
• LENGTHEN
  To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• COLUMN
  A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. 2. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column an architecture;
• LENGTHFUL
  Long. Pope.
• THIRDLY
  In the third place. Bacon.
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• FLUTTER
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• COLUMNARITY
  The state or quality of being columnar.
• FREEDSTOOL
  See FRIDSTOL
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• DEDECORATION
  Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• WAY SHAFT
  A rock shaft.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• SEMICOLUMNAR
  Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.