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Word Meanings - NOTCHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions. (more info) 1. The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows. 2. The small hollow, or hollows,

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A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions. (more info) 1. The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows. 2. The small hollow, or hollows, cut; a notch or notches.

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  • HOLLOW-HEARTED
    Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • MAKING-IRON
    A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
  • CUTTHROAT
    One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
  • JOINTWEED
    A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • SCANTLING
    Not plentiful; small; scanty. Jer. Taylor.
  • NOTCH
    1. A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation. And on the stick ten equal notches makes. Swift. 2. A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.
  • METHOD
    Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course;
  • INTERLOCK
    To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.
  • JOINTURELESS
    Having no jointure.
  • SCANTLE
    To be deficient; to fail. Drayton.
  • NOTCHWEED
    A foul-smelling weed, the stinking goosefoot (Chenopodium Vulvaria).
  • CUTTY
    Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
  • JOINER
    1. One who, or that which, joins. 2. One whose occupation is to construct articles by joining pieces of wood; a mechanic who does the woodwork necessary for the finishing of buildings. "One Snug, the joiner." Shak. 3. A wood-working machine, for
  • NOTCHING
    A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions. (more info) 1. The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows. 2. The small hollow, or hollows,
  • METHODIZE
    To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts. Spectator.
  • JOINTING
    The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc. -- Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2. -- Jointing rule , a long straight rule,
  • METHODIC; METHODICAL
    1. Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. "Methodical regularity." Addison.
  • METHODIOS
    The art and principles of method.
  • UNJOINT
    To disjoint.
  • MANTUAMAKER
    One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
  • STRAIGHT-JOINT
    Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
  • BOOTMAKER
    One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
  • DISJOINT
    Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
  • STRAW-CUTTER
    An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
  • BRICKMAKER
    One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • SAILMAKER
    One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
  • UNJOINTED
    Having no joint or articulation; as, an unjointed stem. (more info) 1. Disjointed; unconnected; hence, incoherent. Shak. 2. Etym:
  • WIDOW-MAKER
    One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
  • SWARD-CUTTER
    A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
  • MATCHMAKER
    1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.

 

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