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Home Dictionary Name: float Page: 3Balloon
A bag made of silk or other light material and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air so as to rise and float in the atmosphere especially one with a car attached for aeumlrial navigation...
bobfloat
a small float usually made of cork attached to a fishing line...
Breastwheel
A water wheel on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel nor so low as in the undershot but generally at about half the height of the wheel being kept in contact with it by the breasting The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse partly by its weight...
Buoy
A float esp a floating object moored to the bottom to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water as an anchor shoal rock etc...
Buoyant
Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid tending to rise or float as iron is buoyant in mercury...
Catamaran
A kind of raft or float consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together and moved by paddles or sail used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America and at life saving stations...
Balsa
A raft or float used principally on the Pacific coast of South America...
fleet
To sail to float...
VerbarJetsam
Goods which sink when cast into the sea and remain under water distinguished from flotsam goods which float and ligan or lagan goods which are sunk attached to a buoy...
Ligger
A baited line attached to a float for night fishing See Leger a...
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