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A game played on board ship in which the aim is to shove or drive with a cue wooden disks into divisions chalked on the deck; -- called also shuffleboard.

A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Grose.

A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle. Knight.

An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.

A broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat.

A large wooden vessel for holding water; a cowl. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Dr. H. More.

rizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white pigment. -- Spanish windlass (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope wound about it, into which a marline spike is thrust to serve as a lever.

A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.

The short wooden buttress of a post.

A wooden frame to set casks on. [Prov. Eng.]

In the organ, a small wooden rod which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.

or shares, dealt in, of transactions, and of prices. -- Stock lock, a lock inclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a door. -- Stock market. (a) A place where stocks are bought and sold; the stock exchange. (b) A market for live stock. -- Stock pigeon. (Zoöl.) Same as Stockdove. -- Stock purse. (a) A c…

A wooden landmark, to indicate possession of mining land.

clergy be able to bear a heavy burden, is submitted to the house. Swift. We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus. Macaulay.

A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; - - called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.

) See Gladiolus. -- Sword mat (Naut.), a mat closely woven of yarns; -- so called from a wooden implement used in its manufacture. -- Sword shrimp (Zoöl.), a European shrimp (Pasiphæa sivado) having a very thin, compressed body. -- Sword stick, a sword cane. -- To measure swords with one. See under Measure, v. t.…

A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use.

tender leaves. -- Tea caddy, a small box for holding tea. -- Tea chest, a small, square wooden case, usually lined with sheet lead or tin, in which tea is imported from China. -- Tea clam (Zoöl.), a small quahaug. [Local, U.S.] -- Tea garden, a public garden where tea and other refreshments are served. -- Tea plant…

A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing. Longfellow.

Woods or forest; wooden land. [Western U.S.]