Word Meanings - WATERWING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.

• Bridge-ward
  A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge.
• Protective
  Affording protection; sheltering; defensive.
• Protectiveness
  The quality or state of being protective.
• ACTIONARYACTIONIST
  A shareholder in joint-stock company. [Obs.]
• Bridgeing
  The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight.
• Protector
  One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.
• BRIDGEINGBRIDGING
  The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight. Bridging joist. Same as Binding joist.
• Abutment
  State of abutting.
• Protectoral
  Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power.
• JUNCTIONBOX
  A box through which the main conductors of a system of electric distribution pass, and where connection is made with branch circuits.
• Protectorate
  Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell.
• PROTECTRESSPROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.
• Actionable
  That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
• Protectorial
  Same as Protectoral.
• WALLSIDED
  Having sides nearly perpendicular; -- said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides, or sides tumbling home (see under Tumble, v. i.).

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