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Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. [U.S.]

In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering- ram.

Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks.

One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.

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.

The framework of some pods, as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off. Gray.

The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. [Written also revel.]

ongitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position, and give rigidity to the framework. Rib-band lines, oblique longitudinal sectionss of the hull of a vessel. Knight.

A flooring or framework on which a rick is made.

ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beame of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame. Totten.

A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning. Chapman. Sad Clotho held the rocke, the whiles the thread By grisly Lachesis was spun with pain, That cruel Atropos eftsoon undid. Spenser.

A horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round. Smart.

sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.

the body; all the working parts of a locomotive or other machine, in distinction from the framework. -- Running hand, a style of rapid writing in which the letters are usually slanted and the words formed without lifting the pen; -- distinguished from round hand. -- Running part (Naut.), that part of a rope that is h…

The frame of a saddle. For saddletree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin. Cowper.

s in the open sand lots about San Francisco; as, the sand-lot constitution of California, framed in 1879, under the influence of sand-lot agitation.

In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; - - also called gate. French sash, a casement swinging on hinges; -- in distinction from a vertical sash sliding up and down.

A scaffold; a supporting framework; as, the scaffolding of the body. Pope.

A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle. Knight.