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Furrow :: Furrow (n.) Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age..

Channeling :: Channeling (n.) A channel or a system of channels; a groove.

Porcate :: Porcate (a.) Having grooves or furrows broader than the intervening ridges; furrowed.

Stylus :: Stylus (n.) That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal into sound; also called needle. The stylus is frequently composed of metal or diamond..

Riffle :: Riffle (n.) A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple..

Polygrooved :: Polygrooved (a.) Having many grooves; as, a polygrooved rifle or gun (referring to the rifling)..

Gully :: Gully (n.) A grooved iron rail or tram plate.

Gouge :: Gouge (n.) A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood..

Screw :: Screw (n.) A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or,

Block :: Block (v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles..

Nasobuccal :: Nasobuccal (a.) Connected with both the nose and the mouth; as, the nasobuccal groove in the skate..

Spline :: Spline (n.) A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece..

Killesse :: Killesse (n.) A gutter, groove, or channel..

Croze :: Croze (n.) A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself..

Solenogastra :: Solenogastra (n. pl.) An order of lowly organized Mollusca belonging to the Isopleura. A narrow groove takes the place of the foot of other gastropods.

Fluter :: Fluter (n.) One who makes grooves or flutings.

Making-iron :: Making-iron (n.) A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in..

Staff :: Staff (n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder..

Gouge :: Gouge (n.) The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge..

Snipebill :: Snipebill (n.) A plane for cutting deep grooves in moldings.

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