Word Meanings - DRIVEBOLT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.

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• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• SETTLEMENT
  A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
• SETT
  See 3
• SETTER
  A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by
• DRIFTPIN
  A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
• DRIFTLESS
  Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
• DRIFTAGE
  1. Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway. 2. Anything that drifts.
• DRIFTWEED
  Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin.
• BOLTSPRIT
  See BOWSPRIT
• SETTEE
  A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once.
• SETTLE
  1. A seat of any kind. "Upon the settle of his majesty" Hampole. 2. A bench; especially, a bench with a high back. 3. A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. And from the bottom upon the ground, even
• DRIFT
  The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments. Knight. (more info) drift snowdrift, Dan. drift, impulse, drove, herd, pasture, common, 1. A driving; a violent movement. The dragon drew him away with drift
• DRIFTY
  Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
• SETTLER
  1. One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc. 2. Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England. 3. That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which
• DRIFTWAY
  See 11 (more info) 1. A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle. Cowell. Burrill.
• SETTLING
  That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment. Milton. Settling day, a day for settling accounts, as in the stock market. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one's self,
• SETTING-UP EXERCISE
  Any one of a series of gymnastic exercises used, as in drilling recruits, for the purpose of giving an erect carriage, supple muscles, and an easy control of the limbs.
• SETTERWORT
  The bear's-foot ; -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots. Dr. Prior.
• SETTLEDNESS
  The quality or state of being settled; confirmed state. Bp. Hall.
• UPSETTING
  Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. Jamieson.
• TYPESETTING
  The act or art of setting type.
• ROSETTA WOOD
  An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork. Ure.
• SUNSET; SUNSETTING
  1. The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively. 'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore. Campbell. 2. Hence, the region where the sun sets; the west. Sunset shell , a West
• FRISETTE; FRIZETTE
  a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women.
• ANISETTE
  A French cordial or liqueur flavored with anise seeds. De Colange.
• NARRAGANSETTS
  A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited the shores of Narragansett Bay.
• ROUSSETTE
  A fruit bat, especially the large species inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings.
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• CASSETTE
  See SEGGAR
• FOSSETTE
  A small, deep-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea. (more info) 1. A little hollow; hence, a dimple.
• DISSETTLEMENT
  The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled. Marvell.
• CROSSETTE
  A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow. The shoulder of a joggled keystone.