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Turret :: Turret (n.) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation.

Enfilade :: Enfilade (v. t.) To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops..

Lanciname :: Lanciname (v. t.) To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab.

Gride :: Gride (e. i.) To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword..

Pierce :: Pierce (v. i.) To enter; to penetrate; to make a way into or through something, as a pointed instrument does; -- used literally and figuratively..

Terebrate :: Terebrate (v. t.) To perforate; to bore; to pierce.

Dormer Window :: Dormer window (n.) A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained..

Puncture :: Puncture (v. t.) To pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin..

Drib :: Drib (v. t. & i.) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.

Poach :: Poach (v. t.) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish..

Perce :: Perce (v. t.) To pierce.

Dead-eye :: Dead-eye (n.) A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye..

Bore :: Bore (v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore..

Engore :: Engore (v. t.) To gore; to pierce; to lacerate.

Snakehead :: Snakehead (n.) A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car..

Mullet :: Mullet (n.) A star, usually five pointed and pierced; -- when used as a difference it indicates the third son..

Spear :: Spear (v. t.) To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish..

Broach :: Broach (n.) To spit; to pierce as with a spit.

Transfixion :: Transfixion (n.) The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced..

Snag :: Snag (n.) A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk..

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