Word Meanings - STEMSON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.

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• BOLTER
  1. One who sifts flour or meal. 2. An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.
• APRON MAN
  A man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic. Shak.
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• CURVICAUDATE
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• TIMBERMAN
  A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale.
• TIMBER
  A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, (more info) Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F. timbre, LL.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• CURVISERIAL
  Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
• CURVATURE
  The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. Aberrancy of curvature , the deviation of a curve from a curcular form. -Absolute curvature. See under
• CURVATE; CURVATED
  Bent in a regular form; curved.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• BOLT
  1. A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts. Sir W. Scott. A fool's bolt
• PIECE
  1. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out. Shak. 2. To unite; to join; to combine. Fuller. His adversaries . . . pieced themselves together in a joint opposition
• 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.
• APRONFUL
  The quality an apron can hold.
• BOLTSPRIT
  See BOWSPRIT
• KEELSON
  A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a structure of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship. Cross keelson, a similar structure
• PIECELESS
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• TRICURVATE
  Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
• 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.
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• BIRDBOLT
  A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them. Hence: Anything which smites without penetrating. Shak.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• KINGBOLT
  A vertical iron bolt, by which the forward axle and wheels of a vehicle or the trucks of a railroad car are connected with the other parts.
• RECURVATE
  Recurved.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.