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Car :: Car (n.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper..

Boatswain :: Boatswain (n.) The jager gull.

Wainscot :: Wainscot (n.) A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels..

Plough :: Plough (n.) Same as Charles's Wain.

Wainscoting :: Wainscoting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wainsco.

Swelled :: Sweinmote (n.) See Swainmote.

Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle..

Coxswain :: Coxswain (n.) See Cockswain.

Untwain :: Untwain (v. t.) To rend in twain; to tear in two.

Wainscoted :: Wainscoted (imp. & p. p.) of Wainsco.

Cross-banded :: Cross-banded (a.) A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surface of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface..

Twain :: Twain (a. & n.) Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque..

Boatswain :: Boatswain (n.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties..

Panel :: Panel (v. t.) To form in or with panels; as, to panel a wainscot..

Pipe :: Pipe (v. i.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain..

Wainwright :: Wainwright (n.) Same as Wagonwright.

Cordovan :: Cordovan (n.) Same as Cordwain. In England the name is applied to leather made from horsehide.

Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it..

Swankie :: Swanimote (n.) See Swainmote.

Cockswain :: Cockswain (n.) The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.

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