Word Meanings - ABUTMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. State of abutting. 2. That on or against which a body abuts or presses; as The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut. Gwilt. A fixed point or surface from which resistance

Additional info about word: ABUTMENT

1. State of abutting. 2. That on or against which a body abuts or presses; as The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut. Gwilt. A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc. In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.

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• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• STRUTTING
  from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• THRUSTING
  The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd press, as for pressing curd in making cheese. (more info) 1. The act of pushing with force. The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey. pl.
• VAULTING
  1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• VAULTY
  Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• SOLIDUNGULA
  A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• ABUTTAL
  The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland. Spelman.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• STRUT
  1. To swell; to bulge out. The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. Dryden. 2. To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity. Does he not hold up his head, . . . and strut in his gait Shak.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• ENVAULT
  To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift.
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.