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Axle Guard :: Axle guard () The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England..

Camel :: Camel (n.) A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow water. By admitting water, the camel or camels may be sunk and attached beneath or at the sides of a vessel, and when the water is pumped out the vessel is lifted..

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.

Sponson :: Sponson (n.) One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat..

Pyx :: Pyx (n.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.

Die :: Die (n.) A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice..

Waste :: Waste (v.) That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc..

Spitchcock :: Spitbox (n.) A vessel to receive spittle.

Oxeye :: Oxeye (n.) A fish; the bogue, or box..

Cage :: Cage (n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals..

Buxeous :: Buxeous (a.) Belonging to the box tree.

Open :: Open (a.) Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead..

Body :: Body (n.) The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body..

Distribution :: Distribution (n.) The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.

Stich :: Sticcado (n.) An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks..

Midfeather :: Midfeather (n.) A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.

Rattlewort :: Rattlewort (n.) Same as Rattlebox.

Parry :: Parry (n.) A warding off of a thrust or blow, as in sword and bayonet exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement in debate or other intellectual encounter..

Box :: Box (n.) The square in which the pitcher stands.

Limber :: Limber (n.) The detachable fore part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels, an axle, and a shaft to which the horses are attached. On top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit..

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