Word Meanings - RUDDERSTOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The main part or blade of the rudder, which is connected by hinges, or the like, with the sternpost of a vessel.

Related words: (words related to RUDDERSTOCK)

• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• RUDDERHOLE
  The hole in the deck through which the rudderpost passes.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• RUDDERHEAD
  The upper end of the rudderpost, to which the tiller is attashed.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• CONNECTIVE
  Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
• BLADEFISH
  A long, thin, marine fish of Europe ; the ribbon fish.
• BLADE
  The principal rafters of a roof. Weale. 6. pl. (more info) Dan., & Sw. blad, Icel. bla, OHG. blat, G. blatt, and perh. to L. folium, Gr. . The root is prob. the same as that of AS. bl, E. blow, 1. Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of
• RUDDERPOST
  The shank of a rudder, having the blade at one end and the attachments for operating it at the other.
• BLADEBONE
  The scapula. See Blade, 4.
• BLADESMITH
  A sword cutler.
• RUDDER
  A riddle or sieve.
• CONNECT
  Etym: 1. To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each
• STERNPOST
  A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.
• BLADED
  Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife. (more info) 1. Having a blade or blades; as a two-bladed knife. Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass. Shak. 2. Divested of blades; as, bladed corn.
• VESSEL
  Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. (more info) vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. Vascular, 1. A hollow or concave utensil for
• CONNECTION
  1. The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship. He denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
• TWYBLADE
  See TWAYBLADE
• DEWAR VESSEL
  A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according
• TWAYBLADE
  Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two
• INCONNECTION
  Disconnection.
• BLOOD VESSEL
  Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.