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Barrack :: Barrack (n.) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc..

Outslide :: Outslide (v. i.) To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding..

Slice :: Slice (v. t.) A removable sliding bottom to galley.

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like..

Backsliding :: Backsliding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Backslid.

Throw :: Throw (n.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston..

Grouser :: Grouser (n.) A pointed timber attached to a boat and sliding vertically, to thrust into the ground as a means of anchorage..

Roulette :: Roulette (n.) the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid..

Cam :: Cam (n.) A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it..

Shuttle :: Shuttle (n.) The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch..

Scalebeam :: Scalebeam (n.) A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard..

Smooth :: Smooth (superl.) Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless.

Backsliding :: Backsliding (n.) The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty.

Slide :: Slide (n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.

Sliding :: Sliding (a.) That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly.

Launch :: Launch (n.) The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built..

Metronome :: Metronome (n.) An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music..

Defection :: Defection (n.) Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding..

Skid :: Skid (n.) One of a pair of timbers or bars, usually arranged so as to form an inclined plane, as form a wagon to a door, along which anything is moved by sliding or rolling..

Target :: Target (n.) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff..

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