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gony from grief or pain. With emotions which checked his voice and convulsed his powerful frame. Macaulay.

A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt.

A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.

A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger.

A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.

One of many laths used in preparing one side of a partition or framed wall, when the other side has been covered in and finished.

A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam. [Engl.]

A strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot. [U.S.]

A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.

The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed. Knight.

A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the jionts of framework, etc.

A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack. [Obs.] Begin from first where He encradled was, In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay. Spenser. Cratch cradle, a representation of the figure of the cratch, made upon the fingers with a string; cat's cradle; -- called also scratch cradle.

An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions. Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus. Milton. As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy luster from a tower of strength. W…

A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.

A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc.

One who, or that which, crimps; as: (a) A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape. (b) A device for giving hair a wavy apperance. (c) A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.

One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross- pawl.

A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.

A vessel used to hold wine, oil, or water for the service of the altar. Cruet stand, a frame for holding cruets; a caster.

growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; esp., a triangular frame set with small shares, drawn by a horse and by handles.