Definition of built

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Built (n.) Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship..

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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..
Carrol :: Carrol (n.) A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century..
Shipyard :: Shipyard (n.) A yard, place, or inclosure where ships are built or repaired..
Fireplace :: Fireplace (n.) The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built..
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..
Tabernacle :: Tabernacle (n.) A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent..
Gabionage :: Gabionage (n.) The part of a fortification built of gabions.
Undersetting :: Undersetting (n.) Something set or built under as a support; a pedestal.
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..
Cloud-built :: Cloud-built (a.) Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary..
Jerry-built :: "Jerry-built (a.) Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses..
High-built :: High-built (a.) Of lofty structure; tall.
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..
Casemated :: Casemated (a.) Furnished with, protected by, or built like, a casemate..
Unfounded :: Unfounded (a.) Not founded; not built or established.
Outbuilt :: Outbuilt (imp. & p. p.) of Outbuil.
Low-studded :: Low-studded (a.) Furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house or room..
Bluff-bowed :: Bluff-bowed (a.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
Crater :: Crater (n.) The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up..
Schooner :: Schooner (n.) Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About 1840, longer vessels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix..
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