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Word Meanings - RISER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shaft excavated from below upward. (more info) 1. One who rises; as, an early riser. The upright piece of a step, from tread to tread. Hence: Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like.

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  • SHAFTING
    Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • UPRIGHTNESS
    the quality or state of being upright.
  • EARLY
    Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson.
  • PIECER
    1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
  • PIECEMEALED
    Divided into pieces.
  • SHAFTMAN; SHAFTMENT
    A measure of about six inches.
  • TREADBOARD
    See 5
  • PIECEMEAL
    1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • TREADFOWL
    A cock. Chaucer.
  • SMALLPOX
    A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
  • TREADMILL
    A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison discipline. Also, a mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.
  • UPRIGHTLY
    In an upright manner.
  • TREAD
    tredan, D. & LG. treden, G. treten, OHG. tretan, Icel. tro, Sw. tråda, träda, Dan. træde, Goth. trudan, and perhaps ultimately to F. 1. To set the foot; to step. Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise. Pope. Fools rush in where
  • EXCAVATE
    To dig out and remove, as earth. The material excavated was usually sand. E. L. Corthell. Excavating pump, a kind of dredging apparatus for excavating under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump. Knight.
  • SMALL
    sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
  • PIECELESS
    Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
  • TREADLE
    The chalaza of a bird's egg; the tread. (more info) 1. The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.
  • SHAFT
    A rod at the end of a heddle. A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam
  • ENTERPRISER
    One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
  • CLEARLY
    In a clear manner.
  • WAY SHAFT
    A rock shaft.
  • SPARPIECE
    The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
  • HEREHENCE
    From hence.
  • WHENCEFORTH
    From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • HALF-YEARLY
    Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.
  • DRIFTPIECE
    An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
  • CODPIECE
    A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
  • THENCEFROM
    From that place.
  • AIR SHAFT
    A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.
  • OVERTREAD
    To tread over or upon.
  • TRISERIAL; TRISERIATE
    Arranged in three vertical or spiral rows.

 

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