axle-trees

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• Axle

  ·noun An axis; as, the sun's axle. II. Axle ·noun The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Axle box

  ·- The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle. II. Axle box ·- A bushing in the ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Axle guard

  ·- The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Goodly trees

  Boughs of, were to be carried in festive procession on the first day of the feast of Tabernacles (Le...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• spotted trees

  Equivalent to blazed trees, which see. Maine. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• witness-trees

  In newly settled countries at the West, every mile square is marked by "blazed" trees, and the corne...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bilge-trees

  Another name for bilge-coads. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• cross-trees

  Certain timbers supported by the cheeks and trestle-trees at the upper ends of the lower and top mas...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• trestle-trees

  Two strong bars of timber fixed horizontally fore-and-aft on each side of the lower mast-head, to su...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Algum Or Almug Trees

  the former occurring in (2 Chronicles 2:8; 9:10,11) the latter in (1 Kings 10:11,12) These words are...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Almug Trees

  [Algum Or Almug Trees TREES] see Algum Trees ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Mulbury Trees

  (Heb. becaim). Mention of these is made only in (2 Samuel 5:23,24) and 1Chr 14:14 We are quite unabl...

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• wheel and axle

  A well-known mechanical power, to which belong all turning or wheel machines, as cranes, capstans, w...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• jack cross-trees

  Single iron cross-trees at the head of long topgallant-masts, to support royal and skysail masts. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• trees of a ship

  The chess-trees, the cross-trees, the rough-trees, the trestle-trees, and the waste-trees. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Palm trees, The city of

  The name given to Jericho (q.v.), Deut. 34:3; Judg. 1:16; 3:13. ...

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