Apple-jack
(n.) Apple brandy. |
Bevel gear
() A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet. |
Black-jack
(n.) A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende |
Black-jack
(n.) Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. |
Black-jack
(n.) A large leather vessel for beer, etc. |
Black-jack
(n.) The Quercus nigra, or barren oak. |
Black-jack
(n.) The ensign of a pirate. |
Bloody hand
() A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison. |
Bloody hand
() A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom. |
Bow hand
() The hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand. |
Bow hand
() The hand that draws the bow, i. e., the right hand. |
Broken wind
() The heaves. |
Cheap-jack
(n.) Alt. of Cheap-john |
First-hand
(a.) Obtained directly from the first or original source |
Four-in-hand
(a.) Consisting of four horses controlled by one person |
Four-in-hand
(n.) A team of four horses driven by one person |
Free-hand
(a.) Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments |
Gear
(n.) Clothing |
Gear
(n.) Goods |
Gear
(n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear |
Gear
(n.) The harness of horses or cattle |
Gear
(n.) Warlike accouterments. |
Gear
(n.) Manner |
Gear
(n.) Business matters |
Gear
(n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel |
Gear
(n.) An apparatus for performing a special function |
Gear
(n.) Engagement of parts with each other |
Gear
(n.) See 1st Jeer (b). |
Gear
(n.) Anything worthless |
Gear
(v. t.) To dress |
Gear
(v. t.) To provide with gearing. |
Gear
(v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear. |
Hand
(n.) That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals |
Hand
(n.) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand |
Hand
(n.) A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey. |
Hand
(n.) An index or pointer on a dial |
Hand
(n.) A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches |
Hand
(n.) Side |
Hand
(n.) Power of performance |
Hand
(n.) Actual performance |
Hand
(n.) An agent |
Hand
(n.) Handwriting |
Hand
(n.) Personal possession |
Hand
(n.) Agency in transmission from one person to another |
Hand
(n.) Rate |
Hand
(n.) That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once |
Hand
(n.) The quota of cards received from the dealer. |
Hand
(n.) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together. |
Hand
(n.) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim. |
Hand staves
(pl. ) of Hand |
wind
winding
twist | the act of winding or twisting, he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind |
jacks
jackstones
knucklebones | a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball |
all fours
high-low-jack | card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game |
beggar-my-neighbor
beggar-my-neighbour
strip-Jack-naked | a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards |
prestidigitation
sleight of hand | manual dexterity in the execution of tricks |
wrestle
wrestling grapple
grappling
hand-to-hand struggle | the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat, they had a fierce wrestle, we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully |
| wind | breath, the collision knocked the wind out of him |
| second wind | the return of relatively easy breathing after initial exhaustion during continuous exertion |
fart
farting
flatus
wind breaking wind | a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus |
jacking off
jerking off
hand job
wank | slang for masturbation |
hand
helping hand | physical assistance, give me a hand with the chores |
Canada jay
grey jay
gray jay
camp robber
whisker jack
Perisoreus canadensis | a jay of northern North America with blackapped head and no crest, noted for boldness in thievery |
| jack jackass | male donkey |
| hand | terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos), the kangaroo's forearms seem undeveloped but the powerful five-fingered hands are skilled at feinting and clouting- Springfield (Mass.) Union |
coho
cohoe
coho salmon
blue jack
silver salmon
Oncorhynchus kisutch | small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes |
walleye
walleyed pike
jack salmon
dory Stizostedion vitreum | pike-like freshwater perches |
| jack | any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas |
crevalle jack
jack crevalle
Caranx hippos | fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico |
yellow jack
Caranx bartholomaei | fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico |
horse mackerel jack mackerel
Spanish mackerel saurel Trachurus symmetricus | a California food fish |
aeolian harp
aeolian lyre
wind harp | a harp having strings tuned in unison, they sound when wind passes over them |
anemometer
wind gauge
wind gage | a gauge for recording the speed and direction of wind |
barrel organ
grind organ
hand organ
hurdy gurdy
hurdy-gurdy
street organ | a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs |
bevel gear
pinion and crown wheel
pinion and ring gear | gears that mesh at an angle |
| bumper jack | a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper |
| chafing gear | covering (usually rope or canvas) of a line or spar to protect it from friction |
coach
four-in-hand
coach-and-four | a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver |
differential gear
differential | a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds, used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves |
epicyclic train
epicyclic gear train | a system of epicyclic gears in which at least one wheel axis itself revolves about another fixed axis |
first gear
first
low gear
low | the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle, used to start a car moving |
fishing gear
tackle fishing tackle
fishing rig
rig | gear used in fishing |
| foul-weather gear | protective garment that is intended to keep the wearer dry and warm in bad weather |
| four-in-hand | a long necktie that is tied in a slipknot with one end hanging in front of the other |
gear
gear wheel
geared wheel
cogwheel | a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion |
gear paraphernalia
appurtenance | equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. |
| gear gear mechanism | a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) |
gearbox
gear box
gear case | the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed |
gearing
gear geartrain
power train
train | wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed, the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain |
gearshift
gearstick
shifter
gear lever | a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears, in Britain they call a gearshift a gear lever |
| hand | a rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece, the big hand counts the minutes |
hand ax
hand axe | a stone tool with a cutting edge, the stone is held in the hand and used for chopping |
hand blower
blow dryer
blow drier
hair dryer
hair drier | a hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair, used for styling hair |
hand brake
emergency
emergency brake
parking brake | a brake operated by hand, usually operates by mechanical linkage |
hand calculator
pocket calculator | a calculator small enough to hold in the hand or carry in a pocket |
| hand cream | moisturizing cream for the hands |
hand drill
handheld drill | a small portable drill held and operated by hand |
hand glass
simple microscope
magnifying glass | light microscope consisting of a single convex lens that is used to produce an enlarged image, the magnifying glass was invented by Roger Bacon in |
| hand glass hand mirror | a mirror intended to be held in the hand |
| hand grenade | a grenade designed to be thrown by hand |
hand-held computer
hand-held microcomputer | a portable battery-powered computer small enough to be carried in your pocket |