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Flake :: Flake (n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things..

Maintop :: Maintop (n.) The platform about the head of the mainmast in square-rigged vessels.

Martello Tower :: Martello tower () A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction..

Bridge :: Bridge (n.) Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed..

Chesses :: Chesses (n. pl.) The platforms, consisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge..

Platform :: Platform (n.) A place laid out after a model.

Mount :: Mount (n.) To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding..

Beakhead :: Beakhead (n.) A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew..

Step :: Step (v. i.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast..

Shamble :: Shamble (n.) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level..

Dog-legged :: dog-legged (a.) Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole..

Sponson :: Sponson (n.) One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat..

Pace :: Pace (n.) A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall..

Turntable :: Turntable (n.) A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate..

Apron :: Apron (n.) A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut..

Foretop :: Foretop (n.) The platform at the head of the foremast.

Floor :: Floor (n.) The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge..

Gondola :: Gondola (n.) A long platform car, either having no sides or with very low sides, used on railroads..

Stand :: Stand (v. i.) A raised platform or station where a race or other outdoor spectacle may be viewed; as, the judge's or the grand stand at a race course..

Bench :: Bench (n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.

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