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A piece of iron imbedded in the sand of a mold to keep the sand in place.

terior 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.

A piece of ground appropriates to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.

The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.

The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. [Written also geat and git.] Gate chamber, a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate. -- Gate channel. See Gate, 5. -- Gate hook, the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge. -- Gate money, entrance money for admission…

ompress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle. Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand. Pope.

s of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. -- Gathering peat. (a) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire. (b) In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders.

An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. "An idle gaud." Shak.

One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.

A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw. Gib and key, or Gib and cotter (Steam Engine), the fixed wedge or gib, and the driving we…

Made of giblets; as, a giblet pie.

A kind of candy sweetmeat, or a piece of it; -- called, in full, Gibraltar rock.

A small piece of flesh; a slice. [Obs.] The rest in giggots cut, they spit. Chapman.

A piece of lively dance music, in two strains which are repeated; also, the dance.

To pierce or make with a gimlet.

A quaint piece of machinery; a gimmer. [Obs.]

A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Shak.

The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch.

To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. Byron.