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Drawbore :: Drawbore (n.) A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together..

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle.

Dowel :: Dowel (n.) A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position..

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc..

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment..

Butt :: Butt (v. i.) To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut..

Abut :: Abut (v. i.) To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road..

Abutter :: Abutter (n.) One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river..

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) That on or against which a body abuts or presse.

Shoulder :: Shoulder (n.) An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc..

But :: But (v. i.) See Butt, v., and Abut, v..

Springer :: Springer (n.) The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting..

Water Wing :: Water wing () One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current..

Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them..

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut..

Butting :: Butting (n.) An abuttal; a boundary.

Velvetleaf :: Velvetleaf (n.) A name given to several plants which have soft, velvety leaves, as the Abutilon Avicennae, the Cissampelos Pareira, and the Lavatera arborea, and even the common mullein..

Brob :: Brob (n.) A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping..

Abutting :: Abutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abu.

Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

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