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noun
- A gyroscope.
- A gyrocompass.
- (cycling) Synonym of detangler.
- A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce.
- An autogyro.
- rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction
- a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread
noun
noun
- A potentiometer with a linearly sliding control.
- (US, dialect) A red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rubriventris, syn. Pseudemys rugosa).
- Any skink in the genus Lerista, endemic to Australia.
- (cricket) A similar delivery in which the wrist and ring finger work to impart backspin to the ball.
- (skydiving) A rectangle of fabric that helps produce an orderly parachute deployment.
- Synonym of slide (“child's play equipment”).
- A small sandwich, typically served in a warm bun.
- The movable part of a zip fastener that opens or closes the row of teeth.
- (graphical user interface, Internet) A slideshow on a web page.
- An open-toed and backless sandal; a slide.
- (graphical user interface) A widget allowing the user to select a value or position on a sliding scale.
- A sliding door.
- A slider turtle, any turtle in the genus Trachemys, native to the Americas.
- (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by middle and ring fingers yielding a combination of backspin and sidespin, resulting in a motion to the left when thrown by a right handed pitcher.
- (curling) A piece of Teflon or similar material attached to a curling shoe that allows the player to slide along the ice.
- freshwater turtle of United States and South America; frequently raised commercially; some young sold as pets
- a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction
- a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown
- someone who races the luge
noun
- An apparatus composed of a wheel which spins inside of a frame (gimbal) and causes the balancing of the frame in any direction or position. In the form of a gyroscopic stabilizer, used to help keep aircraft and ships steady.
- rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction
noun
- A gyroscopically controlled fin or similar device that prevents the excess rolling of a ship in rough seas.
- (textiles) A piece of backing fabric used in embroidery.
- An additional wheel on a bicycle to keep it upright to assist a learner.
- An airfoil that stabilizes the flight of an aircraft or missile.
- (mathematics) For a group operating on a set and an element x of the set, the set of all group elements fixing x.
- Any substance added to something in order to stabilize it, as for example a fuel additive that prolongs the shelf life of petrol.
- a device for making something stable
- airfoil consisting of a device for stabilizing an aircraft
- a chemical that is added to a solution or mixture or suspension to maintain it in a stable or unchanging state
noun
- A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
- (law) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
- A device used to produce music.
- A means or agency for achieving an aspect.
- A measuring or displaying device.
- (figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
- (aviation, usually in the plural) Ellipsis of flight instrument.
- the means whereby some act is accomplished
- a device that requires skill for proper use
- a person used by another to gain an end
- any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds
- the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process
- (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right
verb
noun
- A surveying instrument that measures angles of inclination or elevation; a clinometer.
- An instrument that displays the angle of an aircraft relative to the horizon.
- An instrument that measures magnetic dip; a dip circle.
- an instrument showing the angle that an aircraft makes with the horizon
- a measuring instrument for measuring the angle of magnetic dip (as from an airplane)
- an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation
noun
- A device for calibrating a pendulum consisting of a dilatable plate that produces an artificial tilt of a clinometer.
- (cooking) A method of preparing fowl and poultry, where the back is split apart and the bird is flattened down the breast, looking somewhat like a toad; spatchcock.
- An heirloom variety of beet originating in France, and considered possibly the oldest beet cultivar.
- A toadstone.
- (rare) The socket in which the pivot of a door turns.
- A form of torture in which the hands and feet are tied together behind the back, forcing the victim's body to bow, and sometimes accompanied by additional forms of torture, such as suspending the body by the point where the hands and feet are tied or beating.
- (cooking) A type of piquant sauce flavored with tarragon, lemon or vinegar, and other spices, that is traditionally served with a fowl cooked in the crapaudine style.
noun
verb
noun
- Any mechanical device used to position something.
- The part of a control valve used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals.
- That which positions.
- a device used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals.
- (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track
noun
- A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
- (computing) A file sent along with a message, usually an email.
- (meteorology) The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
- The means by which something is physically attached.
- A dependence, especially a strong one.
- (law) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
- A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.
- The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
- a feeling of affection for a person or an institution
- faithful support for a cause or political party or religion
- a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding
- the act of attaching or affixing something
- a supplementary part or accessory
- a connection that fastens things together
- the act of fastening things together
noun
- A galvanometer, usually portable, for indicating the direction of a current.
- An indicator showing the depth of the water in a boiler.
- A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning.
- any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner
- electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity
- rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave
noun
- A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.
- A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies.
- (chiefly UK, slang, derogatory) A homosexual man.
- (UK, slang) A suspended sentence.
- One who, or that which, bends.
- (slang) A bout of heavy drinking.
- a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
- revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
- a tool for bending
noun
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles
- a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
- a bird's foot
- (colloquial) A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
- (graph theory) A tree with one internal vertex and three leaves.
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
verb
noun
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a catch for locking a door
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
- (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- (typography) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- (nautical, chiefly historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
- The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
- (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- (informal) A grasp (of), an attachment (to).
- A snare; a trap.
- (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of an object (e.g. a bend in a river, etc.).
- (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- (baseball) A curveball.
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- (bridge, slang) A finesse.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
- (typography, rare) A háček.
- An advantageous hold.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- (surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”).
- (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
verb
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- catch with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- secure with the foot
- take by theft
- hit with a hook
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
- fasten with a hook
- make off with belongings of others
- (usually passive voice) To make addicted; to captivate.
- (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- (intransitive) To become attached, as by a hook.
- (field hockey, ice hockey) To use the hockey stick to trip or block another player
- To acquire as a spouse.
- (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
- (cricket, golf, basketball) To play a hook shot.
- (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
- (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
- (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- (transitive) To attach a hook to.
- (bridge, slang) To finesse.
- (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- (intransitive) To bend; to be curved.
- (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
noun
- (photography) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
- (sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
- (cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
- (cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
- A bit for turning fasteners with 8-pointed heads.
- (fly fishing, England) A soft-hackle fly.
- (bowls) A competition in which several participants are spread evenly around the edges of the green, who all make one bowl towards the central jack at the same time; the winner being the person whose bowl ends up closest to the jack.
- (music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
- (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
- (mathematics) A spider graph or spider tree.
- (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
- (cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
- A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
- (snooker, billiards) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension.
- Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
- (slang) A spindly person.
- (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
- a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine
- a skillet made of cast iron
- predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
verb
noun
verb
noun
- A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.
- (nautical) A cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck.
- A coalfish (Pollachius virens).
- (Scotland, Durham, Northumberland, historical) A donkey, especially one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
- A small cupboard or closet.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A close friend or buddy.
- (UK, mining) A pony that works in a mine.
- the galley or pantry of a small ship
noun
- A gyroscope.
- A gyrocompass.
- (cycling) Synonym of detangler.
- A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce.
- An autogyro.
- rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction
- a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread
noun
noun
- A potentiometer with a linearly sliding control.
- (US, dialect) A red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rubriventris, syn. Pseudemys rugosa).
- Any skink in the genus Lerista, endemic to Australia.
- (cricket) A similar delivery in which the wrist and ring finger work to impart backspin to the ball.
- (skydiving) A rectangle of fabric that helps produce an orderly parachute deployment.
- Synonym of slide (“child's play equipment”).
- A small sandwich, typically served in a warm bun.
- The movable part of a zip fastener that opens or closes the row of teeth.
- (graphical user interface, Internet) A slideshow on a web page.
- An open-toed and backless sandal; a slide.
- (graphical user interface) A widget allowing the user to select a value or position on a sliding scale.
- A sliding door.
- A slider turtle, any turtle in the genus Trachemys, native to the Americas.
- (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by middle and ring fingers yielding a combination of backspin and sidespin, resulting in a motion to the left when thrown by a right handed pitcher.
- (curling) A piece of Teflon or similar material attached to a curling shoe that allows the player to slide along the ice.
- freshwater turtle of United States and South America; frequently raised commercially; some young sold as pets
- a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction
- a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown
- someone who races the luge
noun
- An apparatus composed of a wheel which spins inside of a frame (gimbal) and causes the balancing of the frame in any direction or position. In the form of a gyroscopic stabilizer, used to help keep aircraft and ships steady.
- rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction
noun
- A gyroscopically controlled fin or similar device that prevents the excess rolling of a ship in rough seas.
- (textiles) A piece of backing fabric used in embroidery.
- An additional wheel on a bicycle to keep it upright to assist a learner.
- An airfoil that stabilizes the flight of an aircraft or missile.
- (mathematics) For a group operating on a set and an element x of the set, the set of all group elements fixing x.
- Any substance added to something in order to stabilize it, as for example a fuel additive that prolongs the shelf life of petrol.
- a device for making something stable
- airfoil consisting of a device for stabilizing an aircraft
- a chemical that is added to a solution or mixture or suspension to maintain it in a stable or unchanging state
noun
- A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
- (law) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
- A device used to produce music.
- A means or agency for achieving an aspect.
- A measuring or displaying device.
- (figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
- (aviation, usually in the plural) Ellipsis of flight instrument.
- the means whereby some act is accomplished
- a device that requires skill for proper use
- a person used by another to gain an end
- any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds
- the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process
- (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right
verb
noun
- A surveying instrument that measures angles of inclination or elevation; a clinometer.
- An instrument that displays the angle of an aircraft relative to the horizon.
- An instrument that measures magnetic dip; a dip circle.
- an instrument showing the angle that an aircraft makes with the horizon
- a measuring instrument for measuring the angle of magnetic dip (as from an airplane)
- an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation
noun
- A device for calibrating a pendulum consisting of a dilatable plate that produces an artificial tilt of a clinometer.
- (cooking) A method of preparing fowl and poultry, where the back is split apart and the bird is flattened down the breast, looking somewhat like a toad; spatchcock.
- An heirloom variety of beet originating in France, and considered possibly the oldest beet cultivar.
- A toadstone.
- (rare) The socket in which the pivot of a door turns.
- A form of torture in which the hands and feet are tied together behind the back, forcing the victim's body to bow, and sometimes accompanied by additional forms of torture, such as suspending the body by the point where the hands and feet are tied or beating.
- (cooking) A type of piquant sauce flavored with tarragon, lemon or vinegar, and other spices, that is traditionally served with a fowl cooked in the crapaudine style.
noun
verb
noun
- Any mechanical device used to position something.
- The part of a control valve used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals.
- That which positions.
- a device used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals.
- (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track
noun
- A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
- (computing) A file sent along with a message, usually an email.
- (meteorology) The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
- The means by which something is physically attached.
- A dependence, especially a strong one.
- (law) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
- A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.
- The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
- a feeling of affection for a person or an institution
- faithful support for a cause or political party or religion
- a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding
- the act of attaching or affixing something
- a supplementary part or accessory
- a connection that fastens things together
- the act of fastening things together
noun
- A galvanometer, usually portable, for indicating the direction of a current.
- An indicator showing the depth of the water in a boiler.
- A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning.
- any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner
- electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity
- rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave
noun
- A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.
- A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies.
- (chiefly UK, slang, derogatory) A homosexual man.
- (UK, slang) A suspended sentence.
- One who, or that which, bends.
- (slang) A bout of heavy drinking.
- a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
- revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
- a tool for bending
noun
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles
- a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
- a bird's foot
- (colloquial) A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
- (graph theory) A tree with one internal vertex and three leaves.
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
verb
noun
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a catch for locking a door
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
- (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- (typography) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- (nautical, chiefly historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
- The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
- (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- (informal) A grasp (of), an attachment (to).
- A snare; a trap.
- (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of an object (e.g. a bend in a river, etc.).
- (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- (baseball) A curveball.
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- (bridge, slang) A finesse.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
- (typography, rare) A háček.
- An advantageous hold.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- (surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”).
- (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
verb
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- catch with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- secure with the foot
- take by theft
- hit with a hook
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
- fasten with a hook
- make off with belongings of others
- (usually passive voice) To make addicted; to captivate.
- (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- (intransitive) To become attached, as by a hook.
- (field hockey, ice hockey) To use the hockey stick to trip or block another player
- To acquire as a spouse.
- (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
- (cricket, golf, basketball) To play a hook shot.
- (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
- (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
- (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- (transitive) To attach a hook to.
- (bridge, slang) To finesse.
- (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- (intransitive) To bend; to be curved.
- (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
noun
- (photography) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
- (sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
- (cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
- (cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
- A bit for turning fasteners with 8-pointed heads.
- (fly fishing, England) A soft-hackle fly.
- (bowls) A competition in which several participants are spread evenly around the edges of the green, who all make one bowl towards the central jack at the same time; the winner being the person whose bowl ends up closest to the jack.
- (music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
- (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
- (mathematics) A spider graph or spider tree.
- (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
- (cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
- A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
- (snooker, billiards) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension.
- Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
- (slang) A spindly person.
- (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
- a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine
- a skillet made of cast iron
- predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
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- A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.
- (nautical) A cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck.
- A coalfish (Pollachius virens).
- (Scotland, Durham, Northumberland, historical) A donkey, especially one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
- A small cupboard or closet.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A close friend or buddy.
- (UK, mining) A pony that works in a mine.
- the galley or pantry of a small ship