Banding plane () A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work. |
Burgess-ship (n.) The state of privilege of a burgess. |
Capping plane () A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails. |
Convexo-plane (a.) Convex on one side, and flat on the other |
Gauger-ship (n.) The office of a gauger. |
High-churchman-ship (n.) The state of being a high-churchman. |
Hostess-ship (n.) The character, personality, or office of a hostess. |
Light-ship (n.) A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners. |
Lode-ship (n.) An old name for a pilot boat. |
Log-ship (n.) A part of the log. See Log-chip, and 2d Log, n., 2. |
Plane (n.) Any tree of the genus Platanus. |
Plane (a.) Without elevations or depressions |
Plane (a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface |
Plane (a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve |
Plane (a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness |
Plane (a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings |
Plane (a.) To make smooth |
Plane (a.) To efface or remove. |
Plane (a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth. |
Plane-parallel (a.) Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass. |
Plane table () See under Plane, a. |
Plane tree () Same as 1st Plane. |
Scabbard plane () See Scaleboard plane, under Scaleboard. |
-ship (n.) A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art |
Ship (n.) Pay |
Ship (n.) Any large seagoing vessel. |
Ship (n.) Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix. |
Ship (n.) A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense. |
Ship (v. t.) To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation |
Ship (v. t.) By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance |
Ship (v. t.) Hence, to send away |
Ship (v. t.) To engage or secure for service on board of a ship |
Ship (v. t.) To receive on board ship |
Ship (v. t.) To put in its place |
Ship (v. i.) To engage to serve on board of a vessel |
Ship (v. i.) To embark on a ship. |
Ship-rigged (a.) Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails. |