Bulkhead
(n.) A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck. |
Bulkhead
(n.) A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water |
Pile
(n.) A hair |
Pile
(n.) A covering of hair or fur. |
Pile
(n.) The head of an arrow or spear. |
Pile
(n.) A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc. |
Pile
(n.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. |
Pile
(v. t.) To drive piles into |
Pile
(n.) A mass of things heaped together |
Pile
(n.) A mass formed in layers |
Pile
(n.) A funeral pile |
Pile
(n.) A large building, or mass of buildings. |
Pile
(n.) Same as Fagot, n., 2. |
Pile
(n.) A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity |
Pile
(n.) The reverse of a coin. See Reverse. |
Piling
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pile |
Pile
(v. t.) To lay or throw into a pile or heap |
Pile
(v. t.) To cover with heaps |
Pile-worn
(a.) Having the pile worn off |
Piling
(n.) The act of heaping up. |
Piling
(n.) The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc. |
Piling
(n.) A series of piles |
Sea wall
() A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea. |
Sheet
(v. t.) In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc. |
Sheet
(v. t.) A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering |
Sheet
(v. t.) A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon |
Sheet
(v. t.) A single signature of a book or a pamphlet |
Sheet
(v. t.) the book itself. |
Sheet
(v. t.) A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance |
Sheet
(v. t.) A broad expanse of water, or the like. |
Sheet
(v. t.) A sail. |
Sheet
(v. t.) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata. |
Sheet
(v. t.) A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind |
Sheet
(v. t.) The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers |
Sheet
(v. t.) To furnish with a sheet or sheets |
Sheet
(v. t.) To expand, as a sheet. |
Sheet anchor
(v. t.) A large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel |
Sheet anchor
(v. t.) Anything regarded as a sure support or dependence in danger |
Sheet cable
() The cable belonging to the sheet anchor. |
Sheet chain
() A chain sheet cable. |
Three-pile
(n.) An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. |
Wall
(n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope |
Wall
(n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room. |
Wall
(n.) A defense |
Wall
(n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel |
Wall
(n.) The side of a level or drift. |
Wall
(n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally. |
Wall
(v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. |
Wall
(v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls |
Wall
(v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway. |
| sheet-metal work | the craft of doing sheet metal work (as in ventilation systems) |
blue wall of silence
blue wall
wall of silence | the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers, the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up |
wall creeper
tichodrome
Tichodroma muriaria | crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa |
| Antonine Wall | a fortification miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde), built into mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain |
atomic pile
atomic reactor
pile
chain reactor | a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy |
| bearing wall | any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building |
bracket
wall bracket | a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) |
| bulkhead | a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments |
| cavity wall | a wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them |
Chinese Wall
Great Wall
Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
cookie sheet
baking tray | a cooking utensil consisting of a flat rectangular metal sheet used for baking cookies or biscuits |
dry wall
dry-stone wall | a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar |
| dust cover dust sheet | a large piece of cloth used to cover furniture that is not in use for a long period |
fitted sheet
contour sheet | a sheet (usually with elastic edges) tailored to fit a particular mattress |
gable
gable end
gable wall | the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof |
hanging
wall hanging | decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window, the cold castle walls were covered with hangings |
lake dwelling
pile dwelling | dwelling built on piles in or near a lake, specifically in prehistoric villages |
mural
wall painting | a painting that is applied to a wall surface |
pall shroud
cerement
winding-sheet
windinglothes | burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped |
| party wall | a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners |
| pile nap | the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave, for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction |
pile spile piling
stilt | a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure |
| pile driver | a machine that drives piling into the ground |
plate glass
sheet glass | glass formed into large thin sheets |
proscenium
proscenium wall | the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater |
rampart
bulwark wall | an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes, they stormed the ramparts of the city, they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down |
| retaining wall | a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth) |
sail
canvas canvass sheet | a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel |
sheet
bed sheet | bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth, used in pairs |
sheet tack mainsheet
weather sheet
shroud | (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind |
| sheet flat solid | a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width |
sheet anchor
waist anchor | spare anchor for use in emergency |
sheet bend
becket bend
weaver's knot
weaver's hitch | a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye) |
| sheet iron | plate iron thinner than tank iron |
| sheet metal | sheet of metal formed into a thin plate |
sheet pile
sheath pile
sheet piling | a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage |
| sheet web | an irregular spider web woven in a single plane and looking like flattened hammocks |
| stone wall | a fence built of rough stones, used to separate fields |
tent-fly
rainfly
fly sheet
fly tent flap | flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent |
voltaic pile
pile galvanic pile | battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series, the earliest electric battery devised by Volta |
| wall | an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness, used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure, the south wall had a small window, the walls were covered with pictures |
| wall | a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden), the wall followed the road, he ducked behind the garden wall and waited |
| wall | a layer of material that encloses space, the walls of the cylinder were perforated, the container's walls were blue |
wallboard
drywall
dry wall | a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions, made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses |
| wall clock | a clock mounted on a wall |
| wall panel | paneling that forms part of a wall |
| wall plate | plate (a timber along the top of a wall) to support the ends of joists, etc., and distribute the load |
wall socket
wall plug
electric outlet
electrical outlet
outlet electric receptacle | receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices |
| wall tent | a canvas tent with four vertical walls |
| wall unit | a piece of furniture having several units that stands against one wall of a room |