Word Meanings - SWIVEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.

• Mannerism
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art.
• Piecener
  One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.
• Mannerist
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• Mannerliness
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance.
• Piecework
  Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed.
• About-sledge
  The largest hammer used by smiths.
• Rotation
  The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round
• Permitted
  of Permit
• ABOUTSLEDGE
  The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.
• Another-gaines
  Of another kind.
• Permitting
  of Permit
• ANOTHERGAINES
  Of another kind. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
• Another-gates
  Of another sort.
• ANOTHERGATES
  Of another sort. [Obs.] "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
• Another-guess
  Of another sort.

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