Word Meanings - STAITH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.

Related words: (words related to STAITH)

• LANDLOCK
  To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.
• LANDSTHING
  See BELOW
• LANDSKIP
  A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.
• 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.
• STAGERY
  Exhibition on the stage.
• LANDSMAN
  A sailor on his first voyage. (more info) 1. One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
• STAG
  The European wren. Stag beetle , any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to Lucanus and allied genera, especially L. cervus of Europe and L. dama of the United States. The mandibles are large and branched, or forked, whence
• STAG-HORNED
  Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles.
• STAGHOUND
  A large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the stag, the wolf, and other large animals. The breed is nearly extinct.
• STAGGERWORT
  A kind of ragwort .
• LANDREEVE
  A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• LANDFLOOD
  An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. Clarendon.
• STAGGER
  1. To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter. Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow. Dryden. 2. To cease to stand firm; to begin to
• LANDWARD
  Toward the land.
• ELEVATOR
  One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as: A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. A cage or platform and the hoisting
• LANDGRAVIATE
  1. The territory held by a landgrave. 2. The office, jurisdiction, or authority of a landgrave.
• MYSTAGOGY
  The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• ROSLAND
  heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
• ENGARLAND
  To encircle with a garland, or with garlands. Sir P. Sidney.
• GLANDULAR
  Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
• MALANDERS
  A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• GARLANDLESS
  Destitute of a garland. Shelley.
• HEADLAND
  1. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with wheat." Shak. 2. A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. Tusser.
• BLANDLY
  In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.
• GLANDULOSITY
  Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. Sir T. Browne.
• BLANDNESS
  The state or quality of being bland.
• FORELAND
  A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat. Farrow. (more info) 1. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
• LAYLAND
  Land lying untilled; fallow ground. Blount.
• MYSTAGOGIC; MYSTAGOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to interpretation of mysteries or to mystagogue; of the nature of mystagogy.
• SLANDEROUS
  1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.