Word Meanings - STEALER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern. (more info) 1. One who steals; a thief.

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• PLANKING
  1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
• STERNFOREMOST
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
• STERNUTATORY
  Sternutative. -- n.
• STERNOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• STERNAL
  Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum. Sternal ribs. See the Note under Rib, n., 1.
• STERNSMAN
  A steersman.
• STERNMOST
  Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.
• STERNOMASTOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• STERNSON
  The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.
• PLANKTON
  All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters. --Plank*ton"ic , a.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• 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.
• STERNAGE
  Stern. Shak.
• STERNNESS
  The quality or state of being stern.
• SHORTCAKE
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
• STERNOCOSTAL
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.
• SHORTLY
  1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in
• PROSTERNATION
  Dejection; depression. Wiseman.
• EPISTERNUM
  One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects. (more info) A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle. Same as Epiplastron.
• SUPRASTERNAL
  Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum.
• PINK STERN
  See PINK
• PINK-STERNED
  Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.
• ENDOSTERNITE
  The part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in Crustacea and insects.
• LATISTERNAL
  Having a broad breastbone, or sternum; -- said of anthropoid apes.