Word Meanings - DRAWHEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.
Related words: (words related to DRAWHEAD)
- OUTER
Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump - APPLICABLE
Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv. - APPLICATIVE
Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv. - APPLICANCY
The quality or state of being applicable. - DRAWBAR
An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. A bar of iron with an eye at each end, - APPLICABILITY
The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied. - OUTERLY
1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew. - APPLICATORILY
By way of application. - APPLICATE
Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of - APPLICATION
1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the - OUTERMOST
Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row. Boyle. - APPLIABLE
Applicable; also, compliant. Howell. - FLANG
A miner's two-pointed pick. - APPLIEDLY
By application. - DRAWGEAR
The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn. (more info) 1. A harness for draught horses. - APPLIER
He who, or that which, applies. - FLANGE
1. An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see Car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, - APPLICATORY
Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. -- n. - APPLIMENT
Application. Marston - APPLICANT
One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner. The applicant for a cup of water. Plumtre. The court require the applicant to appear in person. Z. Swift. - SHOUTER
One who shouts. - SOUTER
A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale. - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - REAPPLICATION
The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied. - FLOUTER
One who flouts; a mocker. - PLOUTER
To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. I did not want to plowter about any more. Kipling. - INAPPLICABILITY
The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness. - TOUTER
One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the - SOUTERLY
Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low. - POUTER
A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, pouts. 2. Etym: - CLOUTERLY
Clumsy; awkward. Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips. - ACCOUTER; ACCOUTRE
To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. Bot accoutered like young men. Shak. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.