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Openwork :: Openwork (n.) Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced..

Terebratula :: Terebratula (n.) A genus of brachiopods which includes many living and some fossil species. The larger valve has a perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for attachment. Called also lamp shell..

Honeycomb :: Honeycomb (n.) Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb..

Straining :: Strainer (n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid..

Siren :: Siren (n.) An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.

Transforate :: Transforate (v. t.) To bore through; to perforate.

Iris :: Iris (n.) The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, and forming the colored portion of the eye. See Eye..

Sparger :: Sparger (n.) A vessel with a perforated cover, for sprinkling with a liquid; a sprinkler..

Perforator :: Perforator (n.) One who, or that which, perforates; esp., a cephalotome..

Honeycombed :: Honeycombed (a.) Formed or perforated like a honeycomb.

Imperforate :: Imperforate (a.) Alt. of Imperforate.

Bead :: Bead (n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer..

Sieve :: Sieve (n.) A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes..

Trephine :: Trephine (v. t.) To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.

Whirtle :: Whirtle (n.) A perforated steel die through which wires or tubes are drawn to form them.

Perforate :: Perforate (a.) Alt. of Perforate.

Piercer :: Piercer (n.) One who, or that which, pierces or perforates.

Clevis :: Clevis (n.) A piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy..

Ear-bored :: Ear-bored (a.) Having the ear perforated.

Pot :: Pot (n.) A perforated cask for draining sugar.

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