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n.
A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar.
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A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.
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The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
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The layer, or stratum, of earth on which the mold, or soil, rests; subsoil.
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A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.
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The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.
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The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened.
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A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
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A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
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In railroads, the bed or foundation on which the superstructure (ties, rails, etc.) rests; in common roads, the whole material laid in place and ready for travel.
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The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests
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The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
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A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam engine.
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The doctrine that refers all diseases to morbid changes of the solid parts of the body. It rests on the view that the solids alone are endowed with vital properties, and can receive the impression of agents tending to produce disease.
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A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon.
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That part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. See Illust. of Gun carriage, under Gun.
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The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring.
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A low four-wheeled carriage used in Russia. The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles which run from the fore to the hind axletree. When snow falls, the wheels are taken off, and the body is mounted on a sledge.
v. i.
To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
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The notch, fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests in rowing. See Rowlock.
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