Poppet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A poppet valve.
  • n. Nautical A small wooden strip on a gunwale that forms or supports an oarlock.
  • n. Nautical One of the beams of a launching cradle supporting a ship's hull.
  • n. Chiefly British A darling.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An endearingly sweet or beautiful child.
  • n. A young woman or girl.
  • n. The stem and valve head in a poppet valve.
  • n. A figurine or image of idolatry.
  • n. A doll made in witchcraft to represent a person, used in casting spells on that person.
  • n. One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to support a vessel in launching.
  • n. An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. See puppet.
  • n. One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to support a vessel in launching.
  • n. An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.
  • n. same as poppit.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A puppet.
  • n. A term of endearment. See puppet.
  • n. A shore or piece of timber placed between a vessel's bottom and the bilgeways, at the foremost and aftermost parts, to support her in launching. See cut under launching-ways.
  • n. One of the heads of a lathe. Also popit. See cut under lathe-head.
  • n. A puppet-valve.
  • n. Small bits of wood upon a boat's gunwale, to support the rowlocks and washstrake.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat; commonly used in internal-combustion engines
    • Equivalent
    puppet head   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    valve   
    Cross Reference
    sliding poppet   
    Variant
    puppet    poppit   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    semilunar    cut-in    solenoid    'bobblefoot'    plunger   
     
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