Word Meanings - MAKING-IRON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.

• After-wit
  Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.
• Seamster
  One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew.
• AFTERWITTED
  Characterized by afterwit; slow-witted. Tyndale.
• After-image
  The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.
• After-witted
  Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
• Seamstress
  A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.
• Afterings
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
• Aftermath
  A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
• Seamstressy
  The business of a seamstress.
• After-mentioned
  Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing).
• Shipshape
  Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly.
• Afterbirth
  The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.
• Aftermost
  Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost.
• Chiselled
  of Chisel
• Somewhat
  More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
• Aftercast
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late.
• Afternoon
  The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening.

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