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Adit :: Adit (n.) An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel..

Floor :: Floor (n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.

Stakeholder :: Stakehead (n.) A horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar..

Bed :: Bed (n.) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds..

Windmill :: Windmill (n.) A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft..

Bed :: Bed (n.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc..

Horizontally :: Horizontally (adv.) In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally..

Treadmill :: Treadmill (n.) A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison discipline. Also, a mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt..

Quadrant :: Quadrant (n.) An instrument for measuring altitudes, variously constructed and mounted for different specific uses in astronomy, surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting commonly of a graduated arc of 90�, with an index or vernier, and either plain or telescopic sights, and usually having a plumb line or spirit level for fixing the vertical or horizontal direction..

Closer :: Closer (n.) The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course..

Sable :: Sable (n.) The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.

Flat :: Flat (n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal..

Level :: Level (a.) Coinciding or parallel with the plane of the horizon; horizontal; as, the telescope is now level..

Ascent :: Ascent () The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees..

Stirrup :: Stirrup (v. i.) A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather, or the like, horizontal in one part for receiving the foot of a rider, and attached by a strap to the saddle, -- used to assist a person in mounting a horse, and to enable him to sit steadily in riding, as well as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight of the body..

Azure :: Azure (n.) A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines..

Grade :: Grade (n.) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264..

Round-arm :: Round-arm (a.) Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally..

Lying :: Lying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lie, to be supported horizontally..

Inclinnation :: Inclinnation (n.) A direction or tendency from the true vertical or horizontal direction; as, the inclination of a column, or of a road bed..

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