Word Meanings - MONKEYTAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery. Totten.

Related words: (words related to MONKEYTAIL)

• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• LEVERAGE
  The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever. Leverage of a couple , the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions. -- Leverage of a force, the perpendicular
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• SHORTCAKE
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
• ROUNDHEADED
  Having a round head or top.
• SHORTLY
  1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in
• ROUNDHEAD
  A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Toone.
• SHORT-JOINTED
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• SHORT-DATED
  Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.
• ROUND
  To whisper. Shak. Holland. The Bishop of Glasgow rounding in his ear, "Ye are not a wise man," . . . he rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, "Wherefore brought ye me here" Calderwood.
• ROUNDURE
  Roundness; a round or circle. Shak.
• ROUNDEL
  A rondelay. "Sung all the roundel lustily." Chaucer. Come, now a roundel and a fairy song. Shak. 2. Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle. The Spaniards, casting themselves into roundels, . . . made a flying march to Calais. Bacon.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• QUARTER ROUND
  An ovolo.
• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• ENROUND
  To surround. Shak.