Word Meanings - TOP-ARMOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A top railing supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.

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• NETTLER
  One who nettles. Milton.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• NETTING
  A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding. Totten. Netting needle, a kind of slender shuttle
• RAIL
  An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women. Fairholt.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• RAILING
  Expressing reproach; insulting. Angels which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them. 2 Pet. ii. 11.
• RAILLEUR
  A banterer; a jester; a mocker. Wycherley.
• RAILER
  One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.
• NETTLE
  A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamædryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U.
• NETTLEBIRD
  the European whitethroat.
• RAILROAD; RAILWAY
  1. A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. Note: The modern railroad is a development
• RAILINGLY
  With scoffing or insulting language.
• SUPPORTER
  A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
• SUPPORTMENT
  Support. Sir H. Wotton.
• SUPPORT
  convey, in LL., to support, sustain; sub under + portare to carry. 1. To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an
• NETTLING
  A process by which two ropes are jointed end so as to form one rope. The process of tying together the ends of yarns in pairs, to prevent tangling.
• NETTLES
  The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting. Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams. Reef points.
• RAILROADING
  The construction of a railroad; the business of managing or operating a railroad.
• MINETTE
  The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.
• FRAILNESS
  Frailty.
• SATINETTE
  One of a breed of fancy frilled pigeons allied to the owls and turbits, having the body white, the shoulders tricolored, and the tail bluish black with a large white spot on each feather.
• FRAIL
  A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
• TAFFRAIL
  The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
• VILLANETTE
  A small villa.
• BONETTA
  See HERBERT
• FRAILTY
  1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness;
• DRAIL
  To trail; to draggle. South.
• SHIP RAILWAY
  An inclined railway running into the water with a cradelike car on which a vessel may be drawn out on land, as for repairs. A railway on which to transport vessels overland between bodies of water.
• INSUPPORTABLE
  Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• TIRAILLEUR
  Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.
• MIGNONETTE
  A plant having greenish flowers with orange- colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb. Mignonette pepper, coarse pepper.