Word Meanings - FENDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm; as: A screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor. Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel

Additional info about word: FENDER

One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm; as: A screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor. Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf. A screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard. Anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by carriage wheels.

Related words: (words related to FENDER)

• SERVING
  a & n. from Serve. Serving board , a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. -- Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant. -- Serving mallet , a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes. -- Serving man, a male servant,
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• SCREENINGS
  The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• SERVO-MOTOR
  A relay apparatus; specif.: An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve
• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• LESSENER
  One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers .
• SERVABLE
  Capable of being preserved. (more info) 1. Capable of being served. 2. Etym:
• SERVITORSHIP
  The office, rank, or condition of a servitor. Boswell.
• SERVER
  1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph.
• CONTACTION
  Act of touching.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• WARD
  warden, G. wart, OHG. wart, Icel. vör a warden, a watch, Goth. -wards in daúrawards a doorkeeper, and E. wary; cf. OF. warde guard, from 1. The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• CUSHIONLESS
  Hot furnished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne.
• 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.
• SERVIAN
  Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe. -- n.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• PRESCAPULA
  The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.
• DISSERVE
  To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym:
• CASTLEWARD
  See CASTLEGUARD
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• TOWNWARD; TOWNWARDS
  Toward a town. Longfellow.
• REWARDFUL
  Yielding reward.
• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• REWARD
  To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. Piers Plowman. Thou hast rewarded
• BEDWARD
  Towards bed.
• CONSERVATIONAL
  Tending to conserve; preservative.
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• TOWARD; TOWARDS
  1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• AWKWARD SQUAD
  A squad of inapt recruits assembled for special drill.