h runs from one timber to another, and
is used to support a part.

$Stub.$ A projecting part, usually of some defined form, and usually
designed to enter or engage with a corresponding recess in another
member.

$Submerged.$ To be buried or covered, as with a fluid; to put under.

$Swivel.$ A pivoted member, used in many forms of tools, in which one
part turns on the other.

$Tail-stock.$ The sliding support or block in a lathe, which carries the
dead spindle, or adjustable center.

$Technical.$ Of or pertaining to the useful in mechanical arts, or to
any science, business, or the like.

$Texture.$ The disposition of the several parts of any body in
connection with each other; or the manner in which the parts are united.

$Tool rest.$ That part of a lathe, or other mechanism, which supports a
tool, or holds the tool support.

$Torso.$ The human body as distinguished from the head and limbs.

$Transverse.$ In a crosswise direction; lying across; at right angles to
the longitudinal.

$Trimmer.$ A beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor
framing, as when a hole is left for stairs, chimneys, and the like.

$Truss.$ An assemblage of members of wood or iron, supported at two
points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points
with the least possible strain, across the length of any member.

$Tusk.$ In mechanism, a long projecting part, longer than a tenon, and
usually applied to the long or projecting part of a tenon.

$Universal joint.$ A joint wherein one member is made to turn with
another, although the two turning members are not in a line with each
other.

$Vocation.$ Employment; trade; profession; business.

$Voissoir.$ One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.

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