a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep | slang for sexual intercourse |
a plot of ground in which plants are growing | a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head |
a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track | a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air |
the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc. | a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole |
single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance | someone who guards prisoners |
a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit | |
a depression forming the ground under a body of water | |
(geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock) | |