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Sockdolager :: Sockdolager (n.) A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites..

Hassock :: Hassock (n.) A small stuffed cushion or footstool, for kneeling on in church, or for home use..

Hassock :: Hassock (n.) A rank tuft of bog grass; a tussock.

Glenoid :: Glenoid (a.) Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates..

Axe :: Axe (n.) A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle..

Arthrodia :: Arthrodia (n.) A form of diarthrodial articulation in which the articular surfaces are nearly flat, so that they form only an imperfect ball and socket..

Unsocket :: Unsocket (v. t.) To loose or take from a socket.

Alveolus :: Alveolus (n.) A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc..

Bass :: Bass (n.) A hassock or thick mat.

Sock :: Sock (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.

Enarthrosis :: Enarthrosis (n.) A ball and socket joint, or the kind of articulation represented by such a joint. See Articulation..

Shotten :: Shotten (n.) Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone..

Dovetail :: Dovetail (n.) A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one..

Orbit :: Orbit (n.) The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.

Gomphiasis :: Gomphiasis (n.) A disease of the teeth, which causes them to loosen and fall out of their sockets..

Ginglymodi :: Ginglymodi (n.) An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebrae convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel..

Bridgepot :: Bridgepot (n.) The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle..

Tussock :: Tussock (n.) Same as Tussock grass, below..

Sockless :: Sockless (a.) Destitute of socks or shoes.

Surcingled :: Surcingle (n.) The girdle of a cassock, by which it is fastened round the waist..

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