Word Meanings - DRAWHEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.

Related words: (words related to DRAWHEAD)

• OUTER
  Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• DRAWBAR
  An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. A bar of iron with an eye at each end,
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• OUTERLY
  1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• OUTERMOST
  Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row. Boyle.
• APPLIABLE
  Applicable; also, compliant. Howell.
• APPLIEDLY
  By application.
• FLANG
  A miner's two-pointed pick.
• DRAWGEAR
  The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn. (more info) 1. A harness for draught horses.
• APPLIER
  He who, or that which, applies.
• FLANGE
  1. An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see Car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder,
• APPLICATORY
  Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. -- n.
• APPLIMENT
  Application. Marston
• APPLICANT
  One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner. The applicant for a cup of water. Plumtre. The court require the applicant to appear in person. Z. Swift.
• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• SOUTER
  A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• FLOUTER
  One who flouts; a mocker.
• PLOUTER
  To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. I did not want to plowter about any more. Kipling.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• TOUTER
  One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the
• SOUTERLY
  Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low.
• POUTER
  A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, pouts. 2. Etym:
• CLOUTERLY
  Clumsy; awkward. Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips.
• ACCOUTER; ACCOUTRE
  To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. Bot accoutered like young men. Shak. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.