A collective noun (or collective name) is a name which denotes or represents a number of individual items. For example, a number of sheep together is known as a 'flock'. The word 'flock' is the collective noun for a number of sheep. Some items have multiple collective nouns, for example a collection of goats can be known as a 'herd', a 'tribe' or a 'trip'.
Ambush is the collective noun for a group of tigers.
Army is the collective noun for a group of frogs, ants,
Array is the collective noun for a group of hedgehogs.
Badelynge is the collective noun for a group of ducks on the ground.
Bale is the collective noun for a group of turtles.
Barren is the collective noun for a group of mules.
Basket is the collective noun for a group of plums.
Battery is the collective noun for a group of barracuda.
Bazaar is the collective noun for a group of guillemots.
Bed is the collective noun for a group of clams.
Bench is the collective noun for a group of bishops, magistrates.
Bevy is the collective noun for a group of quail, roes, swans, pheasants, ladies.
Brace is the collective noun for a group of bucks.
Brood is the collective noun for a group of chickens.
Building is the collective noun for a group of rooks.
Bunch is the collective noun for a group of grapes, flowers.
Bundle is the collective noun for a group of asparagus.
Business is the collective noun for a group of ferrets.
Caravan is the collective noun for a group of camels.
Cast is the collective noun for a group of hawks, falcons.
Cete is the collective noun for a group of badgers.
Charm is the collective noun for a group of goldfinches.
Chatter is the collective noun for a group of budgerigars.
Chattering is the collective noun for a group of choughs.
Chine is the collective noun for a group of polecats.
Clamour is the collective noun for a group of rooks.
Clous is the collective noun for a group of gnats.
Clowder is the collective noun for a group of cats.
Clump is the collective noun for a group of trees.
Cluster is the collective noun for a group of grapes, spiders.
Clutch is the collective noun for a group of eggs.
Clutter is the collective noun for a group of spiders.
Colony is the collective noun for a group of gulls, frogs, penguins, ants, beavers.
Company is the collective noun for a group of widgeon, parrots.
Congregation is the collective noun for a group of plovers.
Convocation is the collective noun for a group of eagles.
Covert is the collective noun for a group of coots.
Covey is the collective noun for a group of partridges, grouse.
Crash is the collective noun for a group of rhinoceros.
The Swallow (Hirundo rustica) is a migratory bird of the family Hirundinidae native to Europe, Asia and Africa, visiting Britain in April and staying until late September. The upper parts of the Swallow are uniformly blue-black in colour, with a patch of red on the forehead. The chin is also red, and the underside a general cream colour with a deep collar of a blue-black colour across the throat. The bill is broad and flat, and the tail forked, more deeply in the male than the female. The wings are very long. Swallows are insectivorous, and generally take food on the wing. The nest is saucer-shaped and made of mud and grass and straw, lined with fine grass and feathers, and usually built upon a rafter or other shelf in a barn or out-house. Research Swallow
In engineering, a stringer is a small, subsidiary beam, joist, or girder. A stringer is connected with, and supported by, other portions of a structure, such as a roof-rafter, floor joist, or the girders or beams of a bridge carrying the rails or roadway and supported in turn by other girders. Research Stringer
In architecture a bird's-mouth (or crow's foot) is an interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a plate. Research Bird's-Mouth
A hammer-beam is a short beam attached to the foot of a principal rafter in a roof, in the place of the tie-beam. Hammer-beams are used in pairs, and project from the wall, extending less than half-way across the apartments. The hammer-beam is generally supported by a rib rising up from a corbel below; and in its turn forms the support of another rib, constituting with that springing from the opposite hammer-beam an arch. Research Hammer-Beam
In architecture a heel is the lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States the term specifically refers to the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping. Research Heel
In architecture a jack rafter is one of the shorter rafters used in constructing a hip or valleyroof; in the United States, the term applies to any secondary roof timber, like the common rafters resting on purlins in a trussed roof; and also, one of the pieces simulating extended rafters, used under the eaves in some styles of building. Research Jack Rafter
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