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Sasse :: Sasse (n.) A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable..

Pinnacle :: Pinnacle (n.) An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc..

Flash :: Flash (n.) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal..

Drawbridge :: Drawbridge (n.) A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal..

Carry :: Carry (n.) A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage..

Snag :: Snag (n.) A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk..

Diggable :: Diggable (a.) Capable of being dug.

Irrefragable :: Irrefragable (a.) Not refragable; not to be gainsaid or denied; not to be refuted or overthrown; unanswerable; incontestable; undeniable; as, an irrefragable argument; irrefragable evidence..

Indefatigability :: Indefatigability (n.) The state of being indefatigable.

Mitigable :: Mitigable (a.) Admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated.

Uncontrollable :: Uncontrollable (a.) Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable title..

Portage :: Portage (n.) A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry.

Skew :: Skew (n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place..

Abrogable :: Abrogable (a.) Capable of being abrogated.

Boatable :: Boatable (a.) Navigable for boats, or small river craft..

Indefatigation :: Indefatigation (n.) Indefatigableness; unweariedness.

Prolongable :: Prolongable (a.) Capable of being prolonged; as, life is prolongable by care..

Litigable :: Litigable (a.) Such as can be litigated.

Jerkinhead :: "Jerkinhead (n.) The hipped part of a roof which is hipped only for a part of its height, leaving a truncated gable..

Irrefragability :: Irrefragability (n.) The quality or state of being irrefragable; incapability of being refuted.

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