Nouns denoting man-made objects
- maiolica
- highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide
- dirndl
- a full skirt with a gathered waistband
- Eton jacket
- a jacket hanging to the waist and cut square at the bottom
- pepper shaker
- a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper
- ladder-back
- the backrest of a chair that consists of two uprights with connecting slats
- porte-cochere
- a carriage entrance passing through a building to an enclosed courtyard
- goal
- game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points
- carron oil
- an ointment formerly used to treat burns
- hatpin
- a long sturdy pin used by women to secure a hat to their hair
- medicine
- (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
- roadway
- a road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travel
- rifle ball
- a bullet designed to be fired from a rifle; no longer made spherical in shape
- stockinet
- knit used especially for infants' wear and undergarments
- silver protein
- a colloid preparation of protein (albumin or gelatin) and silver oxide; used in aqueous solution as an antibacterial agent
- runway
- a chute down which logs can slide
- crochet
- needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle
- permanent press
- a fabric that has been chemically processed to resist wrinkles and hold its shape
- doubler
- an electronic device that doubles the voltage or the frequency of an input signal
- fore-and-aft sail
- any sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft direction
- kaffiyeh
- an Arab headdress consisting of a square piece of cloth folded into a triangle and fastened over the crown by an agal
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