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Word Meanings - COPE-CHISEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove. Knight.

Related words: (words related to COPE-CHISEL)

  • KNIGHTLESS
    Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
  • ADAPTABLE
    Capable of being adapted.
  • CUTTHROAT
    One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
  • 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
  • NARROW-MINDED
    Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • CUTTY
    Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
  • 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.
  • ADAPTNESS
    Adaptedness.
  • NARROWER
    One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.
  • CUTTING
    1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. 2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or
  • CUTTYSTOOL
    1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
  • 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.
  • KNIGHT TEMPLAR
    See 3
  • ADAPTIVE
    Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.
  • ADAPT
    Fitted; suited. Swift.
  • ADAPTATION
    1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine. 2. The result of adapting; an adapted form.
  • 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.
  • ADAPTORIAL
    Adaptive.
  • ADAPTEDNESS
    The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
  • ADAPTER
    A connecting tube; an adopter. (more info) 1. One who adapts.
  • UNKNIGHT
    To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
  • STRAW-CUTTER
    An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
  • SWARD-CUTTER
    A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
  • SCUTTLE
    both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
  • ALE-KNIGHT
    A pot companion.
  • CHALKCUTTER
    A man who digs chalk.
  • ENCHISEL
    To cut with a chisel.

 

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