Word Meanings - SPARPIECE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.

COLLARED
Wearing a collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins. 3. Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t. (more
COLLARET; COLLARETTE
A small collar; specif., a woman's collar of lace, fur, or other fancy material.
COLLAR
The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem. Gray. 4. An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devises to designate their rank or order. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus. A colored
COLLARDS
Young cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort.
SPANPIECE
The collar of a roof; sparpiece.
COLLAR BONE
The clavicle.
ENCOLLAR
To furnish or surround with a collar.