Word Meanings - BOWGRACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.

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• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• FENDER
  One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm; as: A screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor. Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel
• FLOATATION
  See FLOTATION
• SECURER
  One who, or that which, secures.
• SECURENESS
  The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
• FLOATABLE
  That may be floated.
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• SECURELY
  In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger; safely. His daring foe . . . securely him defied. Milton.
• FRAMEWORK
  1. The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society. A staunch and solid piece of framework. Milton. 2. Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.
• FRAMER
  One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.
• FLOATY
  Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light. Sir W. Raleigh.
• FLOATINGLY
  In a floating manner.
• FLOATAGE
  See FLOTAGE
• SECUREMENT
  The act of securing; protection. Society condemns the securement in all cases of perpetual protection by means of perpetual imprisonment. C. A. Ives.
• FRAME-UP
  A conspiracy or plot, esp. for a malicious or evil purpose, as to incriminate a person on false evidence.
• SIDESMAN
  1. A party man; a partisan. Milton. 2. An assistant to the churchwarden; a questman.
• FLOATING CHARGE; FLOATING LIEN
  A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed.
• FLOATING
  1. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air. 2. Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals. 3. Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as,
• FLOATER
  1. One who floats or swims. 2. A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
• FLOAT
  A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die. Knight. 4. The act of flowing; flux; flow. Bacon. 5. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. Mortimer.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
• REFLOAT
  Reflux; ebb. Bacon.
• INFRAMEDIAN
  Of or pertaining to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms. E. Forbes.
• ASSECURE
  To make sure or safe; to assure. Hooker.
• COUNTERSECURE
  To give additional security to or for. Burke.
• DEFENDER
  One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator. Provinces . . . left without their ancient and puissant defenders. Motley.
• REFRAME
  To frame again or anew.
• ENFRAME
  To inclose, as in a frame.
• DEWAR VESSEL
  A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according
• IRONSIDES
  A cuirassier or cuirassiers; also, hardy veteran soldiers; -- applied specifically to Cromwell's cavalry.
• AFLOAT
  1. Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak. 2. Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat. 3. Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs