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pass over wheels on the vessel, the wheels being driven by stream power. (d) The landing platform of a ferry dock. -- Floating cartilage (Med.), a cartilage which moves freely in the cavity of a joint, and often interferes with the functions of the latter. -- Floating dam. (a) An anchored dam. (b) A caisson used as…

The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.

A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n. Addison.

The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive.

A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase. Shipley.

The platform at the head of the foremast.

A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.

That part of a parapet which lies between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure.

A long platform car, either having no sides or with very low sides, used on railroads. [U. S.]

A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.

A raised part of the floor of a large room; a platform for a raised table or throne. See Dais.

Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard. Hot bed (Iron Manuf.), an iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool. -- Hot wall (Gardening), a wall provided with flues for the conducting of heat, to hasten the growth of fruit trees or the ripening of fruit. -- Hot well (Condensing…

butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet.

The platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors. [Eng.] When the rotten hustings shake In another month to his brazen lies. Tennyson.

fishing to take the fish from the water after being hooked. -- Landing stage, a floating platform attached at one end to a wharf in such a manner as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage. -- Landing waiter, a customhouse officer who oversees…

somelidæ, as the potato beetle and helmet beetle. -- Leaf bridge, a draw-bridge having a platform or leaf which swings vertically on hinges. -- Leaf bud (Bot.), a bud which develops into leaves or a leafy branch. -- Leaf butterfly (Zoöl.), any butterfly which, in the form and colors of its wings, resembles the leave…

The platform about the head of the mainmast in square-rigged vessels.

rcular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction.

To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.

The lowest deck of a vessel, esp. of a ship of war, consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are coiled.