Word Meanings - BREASTBAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A band for the breast. Specifically: A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.

Related words: (words related to BREASTBAND)

• 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.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• BREASTWHEEL
  A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• BREASTWORK
  A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.
• CANVASSER
  One who canvasses.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• BREASTPLATE
  A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• BREASTKNOT
  A pin worn of the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.
• BREASTBONE
  The bone of the breast; the sternum.
• CANVASS
  1. To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote. I have made careful search on all hands, and canvassed the matter with
• BREASTRAIL
  The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.
• BREASTHOOK
  A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side. Totten.
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• VELVETBREAST
  The goosander.
• REDBREAST
  The long-eared pondfish. See Pondfish. (more info) The European robin. The American robin. See Robin. The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.
• SPRIGGED
  Having sprigs.
• SHIP-RIGGED
  Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails.
• UNFASTEN
  To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.