Word Meanings - PUDDENING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a fender, on the bow of a boat. A bunch of soft material to prevent chafing between spars, or the like.

Related words: (words related to PUDDENING)

• PLACODERMATA
  See PLACODERMI
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• FENDER
  One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm; as: A screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor. Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• SPARSELY
  In a scattered or sparse manner.
• PLACIT
  A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn.
• PLACOPHORA
  A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.
• CHAFER
  1. One who chafes. 2. A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons. Baker.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• CHAFFINCH
  A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• CHAFERY
  An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
• PLACIDNESS
  The quality or state of being placid.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• COCKCHAFER
  A beetle of the genus Melolontha and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• IMMATERIAL
  1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does