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Word Meanings - TELEMOTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hydraulic device by which the movement of the wheel on the bridge operates the steering gear at the stern.

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  • STERNFOREMOST
    With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
  • STERNUTATORY
    Sternutative. -- n.
  • HYDRAULICON
    An ancient musical instrument played by the action of water; a water organ.
  • STERNOHYOID
    Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
  • STERNAL
    Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum. Sternal ribs. See the Note under Rib, n., 1.
  • STERNSMAN
    A steersman.
  • STERNMOST
    Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.
  • HYDRAULICS
    That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like. Note: As a science,
  • STERNOMASTOID
    Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.
  • STEER
    A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox. (more info) OHG. stior, Icel. stjorr, , Sw. tjur, Dan. tyr, Goth. stiur, Russ. tur', Pol. tur, Ir. & Gael. tarbh,
  • STERNSON
    The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.
  • WHEELBIRD
    The European goatsucker.
  • 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.
  • STERNAGE
    Stern. Shak.
  • STERNNESS
    The quality or state of being stern.
  • DEVICEFUL
    Full of devices; inventive. A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.
  • STERNOCOSTAL
    Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.
  • WHEEL OF FORTUNE
    A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
  • WHEELWRIGHT
    A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
  • WHEELED
    Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four- wheeled carriage.
  • CATHERINE WHEEL
    See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her
  • FOUR-WHEELER
    A vehicle having four wheels.
  • PROSTERNATION
    Dejection; depression. Wiseman.
  • CUBBRIDGE-HEAD
    A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.
  • EPISTERNUM
    One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects. (more info) A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle. Same as Epiplastron.
  • AUCTION BRIDGE
    A variety of the game of bridge in which the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score
  • PELTON WHEEL
    A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.
  • SUPRASTERNAL
    Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum.
  • FOOTBRIDGE
    A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
  • PINK STERN
    See PINK

 

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