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.
- Breastplow
Alt. of Breastplough - Fastener
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm. - Soundly
In a sound manner. - BREASTPLOWBREASTPLOUGH
A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf. - 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. - SOUNDBOARD
A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton. - 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. - SOUNDINGBALLOON
An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes. - Breasted
of Breast - Breastrope
See Breastband. - Supported
of Support - 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. - 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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