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Overhand :: Overhand (a.) Over and over; -- applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both..

Holystone :: Holystone (n.) A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships.

Bed :: Bed (n.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc..

Ribbed :: Ribbed (a.) Intercalated with slate; -- said of a seam of coal.

Fault :: Fault (n.) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.

Corniferous :: Corniferous (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called from the numerous seams of hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the State of New York..

Inseamed :: Inseamed (imp. & p. p.) of Insea.

Finedraw :: Finedraw (v. t.) To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter..

Sack :: Sack (n.) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam..

Waister :: Waister (n.) A seaman, usually a green hand or a broken-down man, stationed in the waist of a vessel of war..

Sloam :: Sloam (n.) A layer of earth between coal seams.

Laterite :: Laterite (n.) An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India..

Asbestos :: Asbestos (n.) A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine..

Reem :: Reem (v. t.) To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.

Suture :: Suture (n.) The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam..

Crimp :: Crimp (v. t.) to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen..

Seam :: Seam (n.) A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.

Pharos :: Pharos (n.) A lighthouse or beacon for the guidance of seamen.

Making-iron :: Making-iron (n.) A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in..

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