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1. bar, n.1 View full entry c1175
...gen. A straight piece of wood, metal, or other rigid material, long in proportion to its thickness....
2. bent, n.2 View full entry 1521
...A curved position or form; curvature, bending degree of curvature. Also fig. (Now rare.)...
3. bit, n.1 View full entry c893
...The act or action of biting; a biteat a bit: at one bite; also fig.Obs....
4. bolt, n.1 View full entry a1000
...An arrow; especially one of the stouter and shorter kind with blunt or thickened head, called also quarrel, discharged from a cross-bow or other engine. Often fig., esp....
5. boul | bool, n. View full entry a1522
...Anything bent into a curve; a curvature. Sc....
6. bow, n.1 View full entry OE
...gen. A thing bent or fashioned so as to form part of the circumference of a circle or other curve; a bend, a bent line....
7. box, n.2 View full entry a1000
...A case or receptacle usually having a lid....
8. Bramah, n. View full entry 1836
...Used attrib. to designate machines, etc., invented by Bramah....
9. breech, n. View full entry a1000
...A garment covering the loins and thighs: at first perh. only a ‘breech-cloth’; later reaching to the knees....
10. bridgeward, n. View full entry a1000
...The keeper or warden of a bridge....
11. broach, n.1 View full entry c1305
...A pointed rod of wood or iron; a lance, spear, bodkin, pricker, skewer, awl, stout pin. Obs. in general sense exc. dial....
12. check-, comb. form View full entry 1487
...Used attrib. ‘that serves to “check” or control’....
13. Chubb, n. View full entry 1833
...In full Chubb's lock, Chubb-lock: a patent lock with tumblers and, in addition, a lever called a detector, which fixes the bolt immovably when one of the tumblers...
14. claw, n. View full entry a700
...The sharp horny nail with which the feet of birds and some beasts are armed. Also applied to similar structures on the feet of insects, crustacea, etc....
15. click, n.1 View full entry 1611
...A slight, sharp, hard, non-ringing sound of concussion, thinner than a clack, such as is made by the dropping of a latch, the cocking of a gun, etc. Also ...
16. clicket, n. View full entry c1386
...The latch of a gate or door. Still dial....
17. ˈcockspur, n. View full entry 1591
...The spur of a cock....
18. combination, n. View full entry ?1533
...gen. The action of combining or joining two or more separate things into a whole....
19. cover, n.1 View full entry c1300
...That which covers: anything that is put or laid over, or that naturally overlies or overspreads an object, with the effect of hiding, sheltering, or enclosing it; often a thing designed or...
20. cross-, comb. form View full entry c1330
...General uses in combination....
