The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
A large cushion or pillow.
A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.
The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.
The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.
That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
A narrow opening in a vessel.
The front part of the neck.
Station throat.
The inside of a timber knee.
The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
The gullet or windpipe.
To utter in or with the throat.
to throat threats
To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)