Word Meanings - STAKEHEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar.
Related words: (words related to STAKEHEAD)
- SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - SUPPORTATION
Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon. - HORIZONTALLY
In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally. - SUPPORTFUL
Abounding with support. Chapman. - SUPPORTLESS
Having no support. Milton. - STAKE
1. To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants. 2. To mark the limits of by stakes; -- with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road. 3. To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a - 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. - APARTMENT HOUSE
A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house. - APARTNESS
The quality of standing apart. - HORIZONTAL
1. Pertaining to, or near, the horizon. "Horizontal misty air." Milton. 2. Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as, a horizontalline or surface. 3. Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; as, horizontal distance. Horizontal drill, - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - HORIZONTALITY
The state or quality of being horizontal. Kirwan. - STAKEHOLDER
The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid. - APARTMENT
appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. 1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding. 2. A set or suite of rooms. De Quincey. 3. A compartment. Pope. - SUPPORTER
A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South. - SUPPORT
1. The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining. 2. That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind. 3. That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, - SUPPORTMENT
Support. Sir H. Wotton. - STAKEHEAD
A horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar. - SUPPORTRESS
A female supporter. You are my gracious patroness and supportress. Massinger. - 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. - INSUPPORTABLE
Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv. - MISTAKEN
1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion. - UNSUPPORTABLE
Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv. - MISTAKER
One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall. - MISTAKE
1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought - PAINSTAKER
One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay. - ALESTAKE
A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." Chaucer.