Word Meanings - RISER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shaft excavated from below upward. (more info) 1. One who rises; as, an early riser. The upright piece of a step, from tread to tread. Hence: Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like.

Related words: (words related to RISER)

• SHAFTING
  Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• EARLY
  Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• SHAFTMAN; SHAFTMENT
  A measure of about six inches.
• TREADBOARD
  See 5
• 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.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• TREADFOWL
  A cock. Chaucer.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• TREADMILL
  A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison discipline. Also, a mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.
• UPRIGHTLY
  In an upright manner.
• TREAD
  tredan, D. & LG. treden, G. treten, OHG. tretan, Icel. tro, Sw. tråda, träda, Dan. træde, Goth. trudan, and perhaps ultimately to F. 1. To set the foot; to step. Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise. Pope. Fools rush in where
• EXCAVATE
  To dig out and remove, as earth. The material excavated was usually sand. E. L. Corthell. Excavating pump, a kind of dredging apparatus for excavating under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump. Knight.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• PIECELESS
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• TREADLE
  The chalaza of a bird's egg; the tread. (more info) 1. The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.
• SHAFT
  A rod at the end of a heddle. A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam
• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• WAY SHAFT
  A rock shaft.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• HALF-YEARLY
  Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.
• 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.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• AIR SHAFT
  A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.
• OVERTREAD
  To tread over or upon.
• TRISERIAL; TRISERIATE
  Arranged in three vertical or spiral rows.