Word Meanings - CLAMP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustuan the ends of beams. 5. A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking. 6. A mollusk. See Clam. Clamp nails, nails used to fasten on clamps in ships.

Additional info about word: CLAMP

A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustuan the ends of beams. 5. A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking. 6. A mollusk. See Clam. Clamp nails, nails used to fasten on clamps in ships. (more info) 1. Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together. An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together. A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen. 3. One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.

Related words: (words related to CLAMP)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• PLANKING
  1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
• HEAPY
  Lying in heaps. Gay.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• INNERVATION
  Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various organs. (more info) 1. The act of innerving or stimulating.
• BURN
  To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
• COKERNUT
  The cocoanut. Note: A mode of spelling introduced by the London customhouse to distinguish more widely between this and other articles spelt much in the same manner.
• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• THICK-SKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• BURNISH
  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• INNERLY
  More within. Baret.
• HEAP
  OS. h, D. hoop, OHG. houf, h, G. haufe, haufen, Sw. hop, Dan. hob., Icel. h troop, flock, Russ. kupa heap, crowd, Lith. kaupas. Cf. Hope, The wisdom of a heap of learned men. Chaucer. A heap of vassals and slaves. Bacon. He had heaps of friends.
• THICK-WINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• PLANKTON
  All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters. --Plank*ton"ic , a.
• THICKBILL
  The bullfinch.
• BURNIEBEE
  The ladybird.
• INNERMOSTLY
  In the innermost place. His ebon cross worn innermostly. Mrs. Browning.
• COKE
  Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by from that made in ovens.
• OVERBURN
  To burn too much; to be overzealous.
• SUNBURNING
  Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• SUNBURN
  To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.
• GAS-BURNER
  The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
• AUBURN
  1. Flaxen-colored. Florio. 2. Reddish brown. His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden.
• CHEAPLY
  At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
• TWINNER
  One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser.
• DINNERLY
  Of or pertaining to dinner. The dinnerly officer. Copley.
• UPHEAPED
  Piled up; accumulated. God, which shall repay all with upheaped measure. Udall.