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n to afford a passage for water to the pump well. Limber boards (Naut.), short pieces of plank forming part of the lining of a ship's floor immediately above the timbers, so as to prevent the limbers from becoming clogged. -- Limber box or chest (Mil.), a box on the limber for carrying ammunition. -- Limber rope, Lim…

A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.

als to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants. To crouch in litter of your stable planks. Shak. Take off the litter from your kernel beds. Evelyn.

The part of a ship's side where the planking begins to curve toward bow and stern.

one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance.

Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber. [U.S.] Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat. [U.S.] -- Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. [U.S.] -- Lumber wa…

A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.

A thick plank, used for several mechanical purposes; especially:

. A kind of boat used on the coast of Madras, India. The planks are sewed together with strands of coir which cross over a wadding of the same material, so that the shock on taking the beach through surf is much reduced. [Written also masula, masulah, etc.]

Barreled salt beef, packed with about 80 pounds chuck and rump, two flanks, and the rest plates.

To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud. And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine Sheathed, unaware, the tusk in his soft groin. Shak. He charged through an army of lawyers, sometimes . . . nuzzling like an eel in the mud. Arbuthnot.

.), a fire the direction of which is not perpendicular to the line fired at. -- Oblique flank (Fort.), that part of the curtain whence the fire of the opposite bastion may be discovered. Wilhelm. -- Oblique leaf. (Bot.) (a) A leaf twisted or inclined from the normal position. (b) A leaf having one half different from…

A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire. Farrow.

of a flageolet at the end where the wind enters, and are open at the other end. -- Open flank (Fort.), the part of the flank covered by the orillon. -- Open-front furnace (Metal.), a blast furnace having a forehearth. -- Open harmony (Mus.), harmony the tones of which are widely dispersed, or separated by wide inter…

A blank window or panel. [Obs.] Oxf. Gloss.

supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment, or the like; as, orders for blankets are large. In those days were pit orders -- beshrew the uncomfortable manager who abolished them. Lamb.

lar projection made at the shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, -- found in old fortresses.

To outflank. [Obs.] Milton.

of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.

, China, etc., for the conveyance of a single person from place to place. [Written also palankeen.]