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Punka

A machine for fanning a room usually a movable fanlike frame covered with canvas and suspended from the ceiling It is kept in motion by pulling a cord

Proa

canoe is long and narrow and is kept from overturning by a cigar shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward It has been called the flying proa and is the swiftest sailing craft

Predella

band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece

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Pontoon

A wooden flat bottomed boat a metallic cylinder or a frame covered with canvas India rubber etc forming a portable float used in building bridges quickly for the passage

Plank sheer

The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessels frame

Roving

sliver or roll of wool or cotton by means of a machine for the purpose called a roving frame or roving machine

Supplemental Bill

Supplemental Bill, an addition to an original bill in equity, in order to supply some defect in its frame and structure. See BILL INCHANCERY and STATEMENT OF CLAIM.

Eavesdroppers

listen under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, to hearken after discourse, and thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales. They were in early times presentable at the Court-leet, or indictable at the sessions,

Machine

ropes, chains, and bands, cams and other turning and sliding pieces, springs, confined fluids etc. together with the frame work and fastenings, supporting and connecting them, as when it is designed to operate upon material to change

orb weaver

golden orb weaver Mephila clavipes is known for the remarkable dragline silk it produces for use as a frame for its web and as a line on which it can plummet down and nab prey This silk

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