Aich's metal () A kind of gun metal, containing copper, zinc, and iron, but no tin. |
Babbitt metal () A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction. |
Bell metal () A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin |
Blond metal () A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools. |
Hal'yard (v. t.) A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails, flags, etc. |
Kingston metal () An alloy of tin, copper, and mercury, sometimes used for the bearings and packings of machinery. |
Main yard () The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast. |
Metal (n.) An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc. |
Metal (n.) Ore from which a metal is derived |
Metal (n.) A mine from which ores are taken. |
Metal (n.) The substance of which anything is made |
Metal (n.) Courage |
Metal (n.) The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads. |
Metal (n.) The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war. |
Metal (n.) Glass in a state of fusion. |
Metal (n.) The rails of a railroad. |
Metal (v. t.) To cover with metal |
Muntz metal () See under Metal. |
Scrap (v. t.) Something scraped off |
Scrap (v. t.) Specifically, a fragment of something written or printed |
Scrap (v. t.) The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat |
Scrap (v. t.) Same as Scrap iron, below. |
Tilt-yard (n.) A yard or place for tilting. |
Tula metal () An alloy of silver, copper, and lead made at Tula in Russia. |
Wood's metal () A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66¡ |
Yard (v. i.) A rod |
Yard (v. i.) A branch |
Yard (v. i.) A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc. |
Yard (v. i.) A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure. |
Yard (v. i.) The penis. |
Yard (v. i.) A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship. |
Yard (n.) An inclosure |
Yard (n.) An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on |
Yard (v. t.) To confine (cattle) to the yard |
sheet-metal work | the craft of doing sheet metal work (as in ventilation systems) |
garage sale yard sale | an outdoor sale of used personal or household items held on the seller's premises |
fight fighting combat scrap | the act of fighting, any contest or struggle, a fight broke out at the hockey game, there was fighting in the streets, the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap |
Charlestown Navy Yard | the navy yard in Boston where the frigate `Constitution' is anchored |
chicken yard hen yard chicken run fowl run | an enclosed yard for keeping poultry |
drum metal drum | a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids |
front yard | the yard in front of a house, between the house and the street |
full metal jacket | a lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper) |
gauntlet gantlet metal glove | a glove of armored leather, protects the hand |
hacksaw hack saw metal saw | saw used with one hand for cutting metal |
holding pen holding paddock holding yard | a pen where livestock is temporarily confined |
ingot metal bar block of metal | metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling |
liquid metal reactor | a nuclear reactor using liquid metal as a coolant |
main yard | yard for a square mainsail |
marshalling yard | a railway yard in which trains are assembled and goods are loaded |
metal detector | detector that gives a signal when it detects the presence of metal, used to detect the presence of stray bits of metal in food products or to find buried metal |
metal screw | screw made of metal |
metal wood | golf wood with a metal head instead of the traditional wooden head |
navy yard naval shipyard | a military shipyard |
plating metal plating | a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface |
ropewalk rope yard | workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made |
scrap | a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used, she jotted it on a scrap of paper, there was not a scrap left |
sheet metal | sheet of metal formed into a thin plate |
side yard | the grounds at either side of a house |
yard | an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock) |
yard | a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen |
yard grounds curtilage | the enclosed land around a house or other building, it was a small house with almost no yard |
yard railway yard railyard | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
yarder yard donkey | a winch (or system of winches) powered by an engine and used to haul logs from a stump to a landing or to a skid road |
yard goods piece goods | merchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard |
yard marker | (football) a marker indicating the yard line |
yardstick yard measure | a ruler or tape that is three feet long |
heavy metal heavy metal music | loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat, lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery |
Scotland Yard New Scotland Yard | the detective department of the metropolitan police force of London |
dump garbage dump trash dump rubbish dump wasteyard waste-yard dumpsite | a piece of land where waste materials are dumped |
yard line | in football, line parallel to the goal lines indicating position on the field |
yard | a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings), they opened a repair yard on the edge of town |
yard | a tract of land where logs are accumulated |
bit chip flake fleck scrap | a small fragment of something broken off from the whole, a bit of rock caught him in the eye |
metal filing | a fragment of metal rubbed off by the use of a file |
convict con inmate yard bird yardbird | a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison |
yard bird yardbird | a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks |
yardgrass yard grass wire grass goose grass Eleusine indica | coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers, native to Old World tropics, a naturalized weed elsewhere |
asparagus bean yard-long bean Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis Vigna sesquipedalis | South American bean having very long succulent pods |
precious metal | any of the less common and valuable metals often used to make coins or jewelry |
coinage mintage specie metal money | coins collectively |
square yard sq yd | a unit of area equal to one yard by one yard square |
cubic yard yard | a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) |
yard pace | a unit of length equal to feet, defined as . centimeters, originally taken to be the average length of a stride |
half mile yards | a unit of length equal to half of mile |