Word Meanings - MANIGLION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Either one of two handles on the back of a piece of ordnance.

Related words: (words related to MANIGLION)

• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• HANDLESS
  Without a hand. Shak.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• ORDNANCE
  Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war. All the battlements their ordnance fire. Shak. Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of
• PIECELESS
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• PIECELY
  In pieces; piecemeal.
• PIECENER
  1. One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills. 2. Same as Piecer, 2.
• PIECE
  One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn. 6. A castle; a fortified building. Spenser. Of a piece, of the same sort, as if taken from the same whole; like; -- sometimes followed by with. Dryden. -- Piece of eight, the Spanish piaster,
• EITHER
  MHG. iegeweder); a + ge + hwæ whether. See Each, and Whether, and cf. 1. One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one. Lepidus flatters both, Of both is flattered; but he neither
• PIECEWORK
  Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed. The reaping was piecework, at so much per acre. R. Jefferies.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
• TIMEPIECE
  A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
• CHIMNEY-PIECE
  A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace.
• SEAPIECE
  A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture. Addison.
• SIDEPIECE
  The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.
• APIECES
  In pieces or to pieces. "Being torn apieces." Shak.
• FRONTISPIECE
  The part which first meets the eye; as: The principal front of a building. An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself. (more info) beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons
• CROWNPIECE
  A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle. A coin See Crown, 19.
• EYEPIECE
  The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed. Collimating eyepiece. See under Collimate. -- Negative, or Huyghenian, eyepiece,