Word Meanings - CHAINWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.

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• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• LINKS
  A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green. A second links has recently been opened at Prestwick, and another at Troon, on the same coast. P. P. Alexander.
• CHAINWORK
  Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.
• CHAIN PUMP
  A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• STITCH
  A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance. You have gone a good stitch. Bunyan. In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in
• AFTER DAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• AFTER-NOTE
  One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
• LOOPIE
  Deceitful; cunning; sly.
• LOOPLIGHT
  A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.
• LINK
  A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like. Shak. (more info) match, D. lont match; akin to G. lunte, cf. MHG. lünden to burn. Cf.
• LOOPED
  1. Bent, folded, or tied, so as to make a loop; as, a looped wire or string. 2. Full of holes. Shak.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• LINKWORK
  1. A fabric consisting of links made of metal or other material fastened together; also, a chain. And thou shalt make hooks of gold, and two chains of fine gold; linkwork and wreathed. Udall. 2. Mechanism in which links, or intermediate connecting
• AFTERWISE
  Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
• LOOPHOLE
  A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy. 2. A hole or aperture that gives a passage, or the means of escape or evasion.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• TOP-CHAIN
  A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.
• SHEET CHAIN
  A chain sheet cable.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• BLINK-EYED
  Habitually winking. Marlowe.
• HOGCHAIN
  A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging.
• ENLINK
  To chain together; to connect, as by links. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• BACKSTITCH
  A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.
• INTERLINK
  To link together; to join, as one chain to another. Dryden.
• HEMSTITCHED
  Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.
• BREQUET CHAIN
  A watch-guard.
• BLANKET STITCH
  A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.
• DRAWLINK
  See
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.