Definition of frame

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Frame (n.) The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering.

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Door :: Door (n.) The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened..
Doorcase :: Doorcase (n.) The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.
Cratch :: Cratch (n.) A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack.
Stead :: Stead (n.) A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.
Dooring :: Dooring (n.) The frame of a door.
Bowgrace :: Bowgrace (n.) A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice..
Ramed :: Ramed (a.) Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks..
Saddletree :: Saddletree (n.) The frame of a saddle.
Dredge :: Dredge (n.) Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea..
Architecture :: Architecture (n.) Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship..
Ladder :: Ladder (v. i.) A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps..
Grate :: Grate (n.) A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning..
Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies..
Headstock :: Headstock (n.) A part (usually separate from the bed or frame) for supporting some of the principal working parts of a machin.
Shell :: Shell (n.) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house..
Strut :: Strut (n.) In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace, and Illust. of Frame, and Roof..
Cross-spall :: Cross-spall (n.) One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl..
Scaffolding :: Scaffolding (n.) A scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the scaffolding of the body..
Hayrack :: Hayrack (n.) A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging..
Bier :: Bier (n.) A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.
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