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Chuck :: Chuck (n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast..

Spurred :: Spur (n.) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed.

Chipping :: Chipping (n.) The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape..

Pane :: Pane (n.) A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern..

Mesosternum :: Mesosternum (n.) The ventral piece of the middle segment of the thorax in insects.

Bedplate :: Bedplate (n.) The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate..

Execution :: Execution (n.) The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music..

Killock :: Killock (n.) A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together..

Clevis :: Clevis (n.) A piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy..

Parietine :: Parietine (n.) A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin.

Jig :: "Jig (n.) To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine..

Corsned :: Corsned (n.) The morsel of execration; a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. If the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt..

Mastax :: Mastax (n.) The pharynx of a rotifer. It usually contains four horny pieces. The two central ones form the incus, against which the mallei, or lateral ones, work so as to crush the food..

Sou :: Sou (n.) An old French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now displaced by, the five-centime piece (/ of a franc), which is popularly called a sou..

Slab :: Slab (n.) An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc..

Shape :: Shape (n.) A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar..

Clapper :: Clapper (n.) That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell..

Tuyere :: Tuyere (n.) A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge..

Domino :: Domino (n.) A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played.

Tailpiece :: Tailpiece (n.) An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book..

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