Word Meanings - TIMBERHEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.

• Servitute
  Servitude.
• ROPESEND
  To punish with a rope's end.
• Callipers
  See Calipers.
• Gunwale
  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 uppe
• Risorial
  Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles.
• Server
  One who serves.
• Timber
  A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer.
• SERVICESERVICE
  A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible,
• Callat
  Same as Callet.
• Callisection
  Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.
• Kevel
  A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed.
• Risotto
  A kind of pottage.
• Servian
  Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe.
• Timbered
  of Timber
• SERVICECAPSERVICEHAT
  A cap or hat worn by officers or enlisted men when full-dress uniform, or dress uniform, is not worn. In the United States army the service cap is round, about 3½ inches high, flat-topped, with a visor. The service hat is of soft felt of khaki color,
• Callisthenic
  Alt. of Callisthenics

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