Word Meanings - DRIFTPIECE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.

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• PLANKING
  1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• CURVICAUDATE
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• PLANKTON
  All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters. --Plank*ton"ic , a.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• 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.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• 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.
• SCROLLED
  Formed like a scroll; contained in a scroll; adorned with scrolls; as, scrolled work.
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• 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.
• TERMINATOR
  The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, terminates.
• TERMINATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.
• 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.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• INTERMINATED
  Interminable; interminate; endless; unending. Akenside.
• 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.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DISTERMINATE
  Separated by bounds. Bp. Hall.
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.