These are the meanings of the letters NTHRUBOT when you unscramble them.
- Burton (n.)
A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part.
- Button (n.)
A bud; a germ of a plant.
- Button (n.)
A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.
- Button (n.)
A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- Button (n.)
A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- Button (n.)
A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
- Button (n.)
To dress or clothe.
- Button (n.)
To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
- Button (v. i.)
To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
- Turbot (n.)
A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.
- Turbot (n.)
Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California.
- Turbot (n.)
The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.
- Turbot (n.)
The trigger fish.