"Ferrule" is a word in ENGLISH
A bushing for expanding the end of a flue to fasten it
tightly in the tube plate, or for partly filling up its mouth.
A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or
other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and
wearing.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end …
Read the complete definitionA narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; …
Read the complete definitionThe act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest.
Read the complete definitionA piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing.
Read the complete definition1. A sanctuary, or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could …
Read the complete definitionA bushing in the hub of a wheel, through which the axle passes.
Read the complete definitionThe name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum …
Read the complete definitionA mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch …
Read the complete definitionThe act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.
Read the complete definitionTo scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of …
Read the complete definitionWood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush.
Read the complete definitionFood or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.
Read the complete definitionA kind of antelope. See Bush buck.
Read the complete definitionThe bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.
Read the complete definitionSame as Bush, to line.
Read the complete definitionSame as Bush, a lining.
Read the complete definitionAn axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.
Read the complete definitionThe bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together.
Read the complete definitionIn old English law. A wood, a thicket or covert of bushes and brushwood. Cowell; Blount
Read the complete definitionShrubs and bushes upon which animals browse.
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