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Kayak :: Kayak (n.) A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other Arctic tribes..

Chase :: Chase (n.) A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.

Frame :: Frame (v. t.) To support.

Harrow :: Harrow (n.) An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried..

Cribbing :: Cribbing (n.) A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc..

Glazing :: Glazing (n.) The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc..

Balize :: Balize (n.) A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.

Frame :: Frame (v. t.) To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false..

Intertie :: Intertie (n.) In any framed work, a horizontal tie other than sill and plate or other principal ties, securing uprights to one another..

Stick :: Stick (v. t.) A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used..

Flashing :: Flashing (n.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting..

Couple-close :: Couple-close (n.) A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam..

Machine :: Machine (n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to

Counter Brace :: Counter brace () A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive..

Keel :: Keel (n.) A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson..

Wish :: Wish (v. t.) To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate..

Frame :: Frame (v. i.) To proceed; to go.

Cowcatxjer :: Cowcatxjer (n.) A strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot..

Reel :: Reel (n.) A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel..

Crosspiece :: Crosspiece (n.) A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.

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