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- Tapered - imp. & p. p. - of Taper
- Tapered - a. - Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir.
- Surge - n. - The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
- Drift - n. - A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- Touch - v. - The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- Tapered - a. - Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir.
- Squid - n. - Any one of numerous species of ten-armed cephalopods having a long, tapered body, and a caudal fin on each side; especially, any species of Loligo, Ommastrephes, and related genera. See Calamary, Decacerata, Dibranchiata.
- Pin-tailed - a. - Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; -- said of birds.
- Cucumiform - a. - Having the form of a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or curved.
- Scarf - n. - In a piece which is to be united to another by a scarf joint, the part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or notched so as to be thinner than the rest of the piece.