Word Meanings - PLEYT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An old term for a river boat.

RIVER
One who rives or splits.
RIVERLING
A rivulet. Sylvester.
RIVERY
Having rivers; as, a rivery country. Drayton.
RIVERET
A rivulet. Drayton.
RIVERSIDE
The side or bank of a river.
RIVERED
Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country.
RIVERHOOD
The quality or state of being a river. "Useful riverhood." H. Miller.
DRIVER
A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
SCREW-DRIVER
A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
CONTRIVER
One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.
PERIVERTEBRAL
Surrounding the vertebræ.
ARRIVER
One who arrives.
DEPRIVER
One who, or that which, deprives.
DERIVER
One who derives.
SHRIVER
One who shrives; a confessor.
STRIVER
One who strives.
THRIVER
One who thrives, or prospers.
STAKE-DRIVER
The common American bittern ; -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen.
TRIVERBIAL
Pertaining to, or designating, certain days allowed to the pretor for hearing causes, when be might speak the three characteristic words of his office, do, dico, addico. They were called dies fasti. (more info) Antiq.)