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Voyageur :: Voyageur (n.) A traveler; -- applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest..

Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure.

Boom :: Boom (n.) A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage..

Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees..

Sea Devil :: Sea devil () Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus Manta or Cepholoptera, some of which become more than twenty feet across and weigh several tons. See also Ox ray, under Ox..

Clamp :: Clamp (n.) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen..

Browpost :: Browpost (n.) A beam that goes across a building.

Caponiere :: Caponiere (n.) A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway..

Snare :: Snare (n.) The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.

Scraper :: Scraper (n.) An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it..

Transverse :: Transverse (a.) Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal..

Tete-de-pont :: Tete-de-pont (n.) A work thrown up at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy, for covering the communications across a river; a bridgehead..

Nyentek :: Nyentek (n.) A carnivorous mannual (Helictis moscatus, or H. orientalis), native of Eastern Asia and the Indies. It has a dorsal white stripe, and another one across the shoulders. It has a strong musky odor..

Reef-band :: Reef-band (n.) A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made.

Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river..

Swim :: Swim (v. t.) To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river..

Column :: Column (n.) A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper..

Carbonado :: Carbonado (n.) Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop..

Portiere :: Portiere (n.) A curtain hanging across a doorway.

Tumpline :: Tumpline (n.) A strap placed across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back.

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