Word Meanings - BECKET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope.

• Pocketfuls
  of Pocketful
• Sparsely
  In a scattered or sparse manner.
• Holdfast
  Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support.
• Metallicly
  In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
• Metalloid
  Formerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; -- applied by Sir H. Davy to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined.
• Metalloidal
  Metalloid.
• Pocketful
  As much as a pocket will hold; enough to fill a pocket; as, pocketfuls of chestnuts.
• Sparseness
  The quality or state of being sparse; as, sparseness of population.
• Metallifacture
  The production and working or manufacture of metals.
• Metallorganic
  Metalorganic.
• Pocketknife
  A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.
• Sparsim
  Sparsely; scatteredly; here and there.
• Metaled
  of Metal
• Metalliferous
  Producing metals; yielding metals.
• Metallotherapy
  Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface of the body.
• Position
  The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
• HOLDERFORTH
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
• Bracketed
  of Bracket

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