Word Meanings - CONVEYOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.

• Screw-driver
  A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
• Truckle-bed
  A low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under another bed; a trundle-bed.
• Turnhalle
  A building used as a school of gymnastics.
• Turnsole
  A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.
• TURNIPSHELL
  Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped.
• Conveyable
  Capable of being conveyed or transferred.
• Placentiferous
  Having or producing a placenta.
• Screwer
  One who, or that which, screws.
• Truckler
  One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.
• Turnicimorphae
  A division of birds including Turnix and allied genera, resembling quails in appearance but differing from them anatomically.
• Turnspit
  One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office.
• TURNSICK
  Giddy. [Obs.] Bacon.
• Conveyance
  The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.
• Placentiform
  Having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle.
• Spiral
  Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
• Truckmen
  of Truckman
• Turningness
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation.
• Turnstile
  A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1.

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