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Gondola :: Gondola (n.) A long platform car, either having no sides or with very low sides, used on railroads..

Platform :: Platform (n.) A declaration of the principles upon which a person, a sect, or a party proposes to stand; a declared policy or system; as, the Saybrook platform; a political platform..

Flake :: Flake (n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things..

Elevator :: Elevator (n.) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself..

Footboard :: Footboard (n.) The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive.

Genouillere :: Genouillere (n.) That part of a parapet which lies between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure.

Dog-legged :: dog-legged (a.) Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole..

Barbette :: Barbette (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet..

Weighbridge :: Weighbridge (n.) A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.

Scalebeam :: Scalebeam (n.) The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied..

Settle :: Settle (n.) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.

Parapet :: Parapet (n.) A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like..

Bench :: Bench (n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.

Hustings :: Hustings (n. pl.) The platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors.

Platform :: Platform (v. t.) To place on a platform.

Roundtop :: Roundtop (n.) A top; a platform at a masthead; -- so called because formerly round in shape.

Flat :: Flat (n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions..

Footpace :: Footpace (n.) A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase..

Platform :: Platform (v. t.) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.

Wharf :: Wharf (n.) A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier..

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