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Word Meanings - WHIPSTAFF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bar attached to the tiller, for convenience in steering.

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  • CONVENIENCE; CONVENIENCY
    1. The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety. Let's futher think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency,
  • 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,
  • TILLER
    One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
  • ATTACH
    tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack to fasten. Cf. Attack, and see 1. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to
  • STEERAGE
    1. The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship. He left the city, and, in a most tempestuous season, forsook the helm and steerage of the common wealth. Milton. The effect of the helm on a ship; the manner in which
  • STEERSMATE
    One who steers; steersman. Milton.
  • ATTACHABLE
    Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.
  • ATTACHE
    One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.
  • STEERER
    One who steers; as, a boat steerer.
  • STEERLING
    A young small steer.
  • STEERING
    from Steer, v. Steering wheel , the wheel by means of which the rudder of a vessel is turned and the vessel is steered.
  • STEERAGEWAY
    A rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm.
  • STEERSMAN
    One who steers; the helmsman of a vessel. Milton.
  • ATTACHMENT
    1. The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party. 2. That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle.
  • STEERLESS
    Having no rudder. Chaucer.
  • STEERABLE
    Capable of being steered; dirigible.
  • ARTILLERIST
    A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.
  • ARTILLERY
    fr. LL. artillaria, artilleria, machines and apparatus of all kinds used in war, vans laden with arms of any kind which follow camps; F. artillerie great guns, ordnance; OF. artillier to work artifice, to fortify, to arm, prob. from L. ars, artis,
  • FINESTILLER
    One who finestills.
  • ARTILLERYMAN
    A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing.
  • REATTACHMENT
    The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
  • ARTILLERY WHEEL
    A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.
  • INSTILLER
    One who instills. Skelton.
  • INCONVENIENCE
    1. The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement. They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies
  • POSTILLER
    See POSTILER
  • IRREVERSIBLE STEERING GEAR
    A steering gear, esp. for an automobile, not affected by the road wheels, as when they strike an obstacle side ways, but easily controlled by the hand wheel or steering lever.
  • DISTILLERY
    1. The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on. 2. The act of distilling spirits. Todd.
  • STILLER
    One who stills, or quiets.

 

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