Word Meanings - GUNWALE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull.

• Belittling
  of Belittle
• Beaver
  An amphibious rodent, of the genus Castor.
• Bewondered
  of Bewonder
• Bent
  of Bend
• Bedrug
  To drug abundantly or excessively.
• BEGGARSLICE
  The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.
• Berate
  To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
• Beggestere
  A beggar.
• Besnow
  To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes.
• Beaconage
  Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.
• Bethel
  A place of worship; a hallowed spot.
• Belletristic
  Alt. of Belletristical
• Beccabunga
  See Brooklime.
• Bez-antler
  The second branch of a stag's horn.
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• Beduck
  To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse.
• BELLETRISTICBELLETRISTICAL
  Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres. "An unlearned, belletristic trifler." M. Arnold.
• Bergamot
  A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit.
• Beglerbeg
  The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier.
• Bespatter
  To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.

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