Word Meanings - DOGGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.
Related words: (words related to DOGGER)
- MASTERSHIP
1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what - MASTEROUS
Masterly. Milton. - FISHHAWK
The osprey , found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard. - MASTHOUSE
A building in which vessels' masts are shaped, fitted, etc. - MASTICABLE
Capable of being masticated. - MASTICATION
The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food. Mastication is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion. Arbuthnot. - FISH-TAIL
Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish. Fish-tail burner, a gas burner that gives a spreading flame shaped somewhat like the tail of a fish. -- Fish-tail propeller , a propeller with a single blade - MASTOIDITIS
Inflammation in the mastoid process of the temporal bone. - MASTOLOGY
The natural history of Mammalia. - MASTODONTIC
Pertaining to, or resembling, a mastodon; as, mastodontic dimensions. Everett. - FISHWIFE
A fishwoman. - MASTODYNIA; MASTODYNY
Pain occuring in the mamma or female breast, -- a form of neuralgia. - MASTERFULLY
In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay. - MASTICATORY
Chewing; adapted to perform the office o - VESSELFUL
As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel. - FISHINESS
The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike. Pennant. - MASTICATE
To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food. - MASTICATOR
1. One who masticates. 2. A machine for cutting meat into fine pieces for toothless people; also, a machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture. - MASTERSINGER
One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm. - MASTING
The act or process of putting a mast or masts into a vessel; also, the scientific principles which determine the position of masts, and the mechanical methods of placing them. Masting house , a large building, with suitable mechanism overhanging - SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing. - BONEFISH
See LADYFISH - CREMASTERIC
Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery. - POLYMASTISM
The condition of having more than two mammæ, or breasts. - MUFFISH
Stupid; awkward. - BAGGAGE MASTER
One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. - TIFFISH
Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant. - HEMASTATICS
Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels. - YELLOWFISH
A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel. - STYLOMASTOID
Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone. - GREENFISH
See POLLOCK - DOGFISH
1. A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc. Note: The European spotted dogfishes (Scyllium catudus, and S. canicula) are very abundant; the American smooth, or blue dogfish is Mustelus canis; the common picked, - REMASTICATION
The act of masticating or chewing again or repeatedly. - TOASTMASTER
A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts. - WINGFISH
A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin. - ELFISHLY
In an elfish manner. - SELFISHLY
In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly. - HEADFISH
The sunfish . - STAFFISH
Stiff; harsh. Ascham. - SWALLOWFISH
The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.