A set of solid buttons with a shank or eye on the back inserted through a buttonhole; used on dress shirts and formal shirts
any of various infixed pieces (as a rod or pin) projecting from a machine and serving chiefly as a support or axis
The common support lumber inside a wall usually placed on a 16 or 24" layout Jack or trimmer studs: The wall framing lumber that the header sits on Found on each side of a door or window
Accessories; small ornamental buttons mounted on short posts for insertion through an eyelet next to the shirt button
A series of slender wood timbers that support elements in walls and partitions Found inside the walls, they are usually spaced 16 inches apart from center to center of each post
Smaller upright beams in a house, to which drywall panels or laths for plaster are attached
a US writer and radio broadcaster whose books, including Working and The Good War, are based on the experiences and memories of ordinary American people (1912- ). orig. Louis Turkel born May 16, 1912, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. radio personality and author. He moved with his family to Chicago when he was eight. Terkel gave up a legal career to become a radio disk jockey and interviewer, exposure that led to his own television show in 1950. In 1953, blacklisted from television for his leftist leanings, he returned to radio, continuing at the same station for 45 years. His books include Division Street (1967), about Chicago; Hard Times (1970), about the Depression; Working (1974), on Americans and their jobs; The Good War, on World War II (1984, Pulitzer Prize); and Race (1992), on American feelings about race
One of a series of slender wood or metal vertical structural members placed as supporting elements in walls and partitions (Plural: studs or studding )
To my utter disappointment, a "stud" is not a gorgeous hunk of the male species, but a metal traction device inserted into the track of a snowmobile Imagine my confusion when I heard someone had lost a stud I mean--REALLY, how can you lose one of those? I kept my eyes peeled along the trail THAT afternoon
The generic term for poker games where players receive the first card(s) down followed by some up cards where those up cards are exclusively for the use of that player There may be a further down card as in 7 Card Stud
(n) A mechanical fastening device that consists of a cylindrical rod threaded on one or both ends and that screws into a mating part A nut may be used on one end
{i} nail head or knob projecting from a surface; upright post in the framework of a wall; decorative button; small round earring; male animal kept for breeding; sexually promiscuous man (Slang)
Horses or other animals that are kept for stud are kept to be used for breeding. He was voted horse of the year and then was retired to stud. see also press stud
An ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable
poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt adult male horse kept for breeding ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt) a man who is virile and sexually active provide with or construct with studs; "stud the wall
[ 'st&d ] (noun.) before 12th century. Middle English stod, from Old English stOd; akin to Old Church Slavonic stado flock and probably to Old High German stAn to stand; more at STAND.