Word Meanings - BREASTBAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.

• BREASTPLOWBREASTPLOUGH
  A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.
• Breastplow
  Alt. of Breastplough
• Fastener
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• Soundly
  In a sound manner.
• SOUNDBOARD
  A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
• Breastplough
  A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.
• Soundness
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith.
• SOUNDINGBALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• Breastrail
  The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.
• Specifically
  In a specific manner.
• SOUNDINGBOARD
  A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl.
• Breasted
  of Breast
• Breastrope
  See Breastband.
• Supported
  of Support
• Breasting
  of Breast
• Breastsummer
  A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows.

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