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Logrolling :: Logrolling (n.) The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn.

Waft :: Waft (v. i.) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float..

Neaped :: Neaped (a.) Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped..

Skim :: Skim (v. t.) To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth..

Hover :: Hover (v. i.) To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something..

Water Flannel :: Water flannel () A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).

Jacana :: "Jacana (n.) Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird..

Pontoon :: Pontoon (n.) A wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops..

Float :: Float (v. i.) The sea; a wave. See Flote, n..

Buoyant :: Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury..

Physograde :: Physograde (n.) Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia..

Swim :: Swim (v. t.) To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river..

Corpuscle :: Corpuscle (n.) A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood..

Sluiceway :: Sluiceway (n.) An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery..

Float :: Float (v. i.) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.

Noria :: Noria (n.) A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel..

Float :: Float (v. t.) To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.

Float :: Float (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

Tide :: Tide (v. t.) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.

Flotage :: Flotage (n.) That which floats on the sea or in rivers.

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