A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler.
Syndicated material.
The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882).
Standard text or program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor; text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels.
Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous to ski on.
Formulaic or hackneyed language.
A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements.
To store (standard text) so that it can easily be retrieved for reuse.
Describing text or other material of a standard or routine nature.
Used to refer to a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures.
A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
A gathering.
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
To grow gradually larger by accretion.
To bring stitches closer together.
To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
To haul in; to take up.
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
To congregate, or assemble.
Especially, to harvest food.
To collect; normally separate things.
To bring parts of a whole closer.
To gain; to win.
To be filled with pus
To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.