Nouns denoting man-made objects
- camlet
- a fabric of Asian origin; originally made of silk and camel's hair
- gouache
- a watercolor executed with opaque watercolors mixed with gum
- piccolo
- a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute
- soup ladle
- a ladle for serving soup
- free-reed
- a reed that does not fit closely over the aperture
- ratch
- mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction
- half sole
- shoe sole extending from the shank to the toe
- harpoon log
- a cylindrical log with a device that registers distance
- safe
- strongbox where valuables can be safely kept
- stoppage
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- second gear
- the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- overshoe
- footwear that protects your shoes from water or snow or cold
- casserole
- large deep dish in which food can be cooked and served
- wing
- a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud
- acetanilid
- a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic
- futures exchange
- a commodity exchange where futures contracts are traded
- scaffold
- a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
- worm gear
- gear consisting of a shaft with screw thread (the worm) that meshes with a toothed wheel (the worm wheel); changes the direction of the axis of rotary motion
- inkwell
- a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped
- afterdeck
- a deck abaft of midships
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