Word Meanings - WHIPSTAFF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bar attached to the tiller, for convenience in steering.

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• CONVENIENCE; CONVENIENCY
  1. The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety. Let's futher think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency,
• STEER
  A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox. (more info) OHG. stior, Icel. stjorr, , Sw. tjur, Dan. tyr, Goth. stiur, Russ. tur', Pol. tur, Ir. & Gael. tarbh,
• TILLER
  One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
• ATTACH
  tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack to fasten. Cf. Attack, and see 1. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to
• STEERAGE
  1. The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship. He left the city, and, in a most tempestuous season, forsook the helm and steerage of the common wealth. Milton. The effect of the helm on a ship; the manner in which
• STEERSMATE
  One who steers; steersman. Milton.
• ATTACHABLE
  Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.
• ATTACHE
  One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.
• STEERER
  One who steers; as, a boat steerer.
• STEERLING
  A young small steer.
• STEERING
  from Steer, v. Steering wheel , the wheel by means of which the rudder of a vessel is turned and the vessel is steered.
• STEERAGEWAY
  A rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm.
• STEERSMAN
  One who steers; the helmsman of a vessel. Milton.
• ATTACHMENT
  1. The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party. 2. That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle.
• STEERLESS
  Having no rudder. Chaucer.
• STEERABLE
  Capable of being steered; dirigible.
• ARTILLERIST
  A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.
• ARTILLERY
  fr. LL. artillaria, artilleria, machines and apparatus of all kinds used in war, vans laden with arms of any kind which follow camps; F. artillerie great guns, ordnance; OF. artillier to work artifice, to fortify, to arm, prob. from L. ars, artis,
• FINESTILLER
  One who finestills.
• ARTILLERYMAN
  A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing.
• REATTACHMENT
  The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
• ARTILLERY WHEEL
  A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.
• INSTILLER
  One who instills. Skelton.
• INCONVENIENCE
  1. The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement. They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies
• POSTILLER
  See POSTILER
• IRREVERSIBLE STEERING GEAR
  A steering gear, esp. for an automobile, not affected by the road wheels, as when they strike an obstacle side ways, but easily controlled by the hand wheel or steering lever.
• DISTILLERY
  1. The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on. 2. The act of distilling spirits. Todd.
• STILLER
  One who stills, or quiets.