Word Meanings - SPOKESHAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work.

• Plank-sheer
  The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessel's frame.
• Drawing
  of Draw
• Plantable
  Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.
• Drawgloves
  An old game, played by holding up the fingers.
• Plantule
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• Dressed
  of Dress
• DRESSCOAT
  A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.
• Otherguise
  Alt. of Otherguess
• Planary
  Of or pertaining to a plane.
• Planetary
  Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.
• Planimeter
  An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.
• Curvicaudate
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• Planless
  Having no plan.
• Plantage
  A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.
• Drawhead
  The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.
• Planulae
  of Planula
• Dressing
  of Dress
• DRESSGOODS
  A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.

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