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Chase :: Chase (n.) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats..

Shipyard :: Shipyard (n.) A yard, place, or inclosure where ships are built or repaired..

Bridewell :: Bridewell (n.) A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse..

Galiot :: Galiot (n.) A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers..

Superficies :: Superficiary (a.) Situated or built on another man's land, as a house..

Slip :: Slip (n.) An inclined plane on which a vessel is built, or upon which it is hauled for repair..

Masonry :: Masonry (n.) That which is built by a mason; anything constructed of the materials used by masons, such as stone, brick, tiles, or the like. Dry masonry is applied to structures made without mortar..

Mew :: Mew (n.) A stable or range of stables for horses; -- compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks..

Engine :: Engine (v. t.) To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another..

Water Wing :: Water wing () One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current..

Built :: Built (imp. & p. p.) of Buil.

Outbuilt :: Outbuilt (imp. & p. p.) of Outbuil.

Jerry-built :: "Jerry-built (a.) Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses..

Cloud-built :: Cloud-built (a.) Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary..

Block :: Block (v. t.) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops..

Whisky :: Whisky (n.) A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim-whiskey.

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850..

Nog :: Nog (n.) A wooden block, of the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork..

Superficiary :: Superficiary (n.) One to whom a right of surface occupation is granted; one who pays quitrent for a house built upon another man's ground.

Flashing :: Flashing (n.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting..

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