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verb
- gather with a rake
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To pick (a lock) with a rake.
- move through with or as if with a rake
- sweep the length of
- examine hastily
- level or smooth with a rake
- scrape gently
- (ambitransitive, figurative) Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- (military, nautical) To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- (intransitive, chiefly Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- (transitive) To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- (intransitive, rare) Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- (intransitive, falconry) Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To search through (thoroughly).
- (transitive, chiefly Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, also figurative) To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- (transitive) Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
- (ambitransitive, also figurative) To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- (ambitransitive) To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- (transitive, also figurative) Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)
noun
- The act of raking.
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- (gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- (British, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- (specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
- (Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- (Scotland) Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- (geology) The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- (mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, slang) A lot, plenty.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A type of lockpick that has a ridged or notched blade that moves across the pins in a pin tumbler lock, causing them to settle into a shear line.
- (Midlands, Northern England) Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”).
- (agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- (cellular automata) A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
verb
noun
- (British) Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.
- Any of various gastropods with a conical shell shape patelliform and a strong, muscular foot that they use to create strong suction to cling onto rocks or other hard surfaces.
- any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas
- mollusk with a low conical shell
noun
- A light-weight harvest rake.
- A hipped gable.
- (UK, dialect, childish) A cow.
- A mixture of clay and loam.
- (UK, dialect) A mule.
- A giant Asian catfish, Wallagonia Attu found in India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Indochina, Thailand, Java, and Sumatra.
- (US) A hornless or polled animal.
- An upright crank-driven saw with no gate or sash.
adj
verb
- To gather, collect.
- To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
- (by extension) To kill (animals, etc).
- To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
- (computer graphics) To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.
- To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
- look for and gather
- remove something that has been rejected
noun
- (seafood industry) A lobster having only one claw.
- A selection.
- (slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
- A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
- An organized killing of selected animals.
- (agriculture) An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
- the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
verb
verb
noun
noun
- the gathering of a ripened crop
- the consequence of an effort or activity
- the yield from plants in a single growing season
- the season for gathering crops
- (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.
- The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.
- (UK, dialectal) The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
- (agriculture) The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.
- The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
- (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
verb
- remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation
- gather, as of natural products
- (transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
- (transitive) To take (an organ) from an organ donor.
- (transitive) To win, achieve a gain.
- (intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest.
- (transitive) To take a living organism as part of a managed process to gather food or resources, often with the intention of maintaining a healthy population.
verb
noun
- A sexually loose woman
- a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
- (when not otherwise specified) An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.
- (Orkney, Shetland) The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.
- Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.
- (slang, derogatory) Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).
- A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
noun
- A person who harvests peat
- A device used to trim the edges of a lawn in a clean manner, down through to the dirt
- A device used to harvest peat, built-up organic detritus from a bog
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turf, cutter.; that which cuts turf
- A device used to harvest sod, living grass mats complete with its roots in soil
- A person who harvests sod
verb
- To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
- (often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact
- (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
- To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
- store grain
- acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
- assemble or get together
noun
noun
- The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.
- (music) a bass guitar playing technique in which multiple notes are played rapidly from one string to another.
- A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.
adj
verb
noun
- someone who helps to gather the harvest
- farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields
- (forestry) A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees; an instance of this type.
- A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
- (computing) A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
- A North American butterfly species, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America; an individual of this species.
- (Ireland) A finnock (a young sea trout).
- Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.
noun
- a person who gathers
- A person who gathers things.
- a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
- (glassblowing) A worker who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing.
- A person who primarily gathers in a hunter-gatherer social system.
- (textiles) An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
- (business) A person who collects rent or taxes.
noun
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
- (masonry) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- A gathering.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
verb
- collect in one place
- conclude from evidence
- get people together
- look for (food) in nature
- draw and bring closer
- increase or develop
- draw together into folds or puckers
- increase in amount by collecting or gathering
- assemble or get together
- (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- To gain; to win.
- (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
- (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
- (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- (nautical) To haul in; to take up.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
- (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
- (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
- To collect normally separate things.
- To bring parts of a whole closer.
- To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
noun
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
- the social act of assembling
- a group of persons together in one place
- A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
- A charitable contribution; a collection.
- A group of people or things.
- (uncountable) The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.
- (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
- (medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
adj
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
- (US, military, slang) A sailor.
- (countable, US, regional) A whoopie pie.
- (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
- a man who serves as a sailor
- a lump of slimy stuff
- informal terms for the mouth
noun
- A gathering to pick fruit.
- Something picked or pulled out.
- The act of making a choice; selection.
- (usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
- (usually pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
- The removal of defects from electrotype plates.
- The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.
- Dabbing in stoneworking.
- the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
verb
verb
noun
- A shallow in a body of water.
- Any large number of persons or things.
- A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
- (collective) A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
- a stretch of shallow water
- a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
- a large group of fish
noun
- The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
- (UK, education, historical, uncountable) The practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.
- The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
- (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
- (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
- (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
- A mass of something piled up or collected.
- (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation
- the act of accumulating
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- several things grouped together or considered as a whole
noun
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- (informal) A potato.
- A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
- (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- (informal) A hole in a sock.
- a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
- an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
name
verb
- (camping, transitive) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.
- (transitive) To dig up weeds with a spud.
- (drilling, transitive) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
- (roofing, transitive) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
- initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
verb
- To break up ground with a hoe.
- (Northern UK, colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
- To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
- (of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.
- To remove the kernels from a corncob.
- To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
- To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
- To thresh.
noun
- A male swan.
- Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
- (music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
- The seed-bearing head of a plant.
- A small fish, the miller's thumb.
- A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, stone, or excrement.
- A spider (cf. cobweb).
- A horse having a stout body and short legs.
- (uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
- Alternative form of COB.
- A corncob.
- Abbreviation of cobble.
- A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
- (Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
- A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
- (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
- Clipping of cobnut.
- adult male swan
- white gull having a black back and wings
- stocky short-legged harness horse
- nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
noun
- A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
- A tool used for smoothing a mold.
- A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
- a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials
verb
noun
- The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
- Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
- (rugby) The forming of players into a scrum.
- (sciences, mathematics) The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
- Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications.
- A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
- The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
- Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
- Clipping of meatpacking.
- any material used especially to protect something
- the enclosure of something in a package or box
- carrying something in a pack on the back
verb
verb
noun
verb
- gather with a rake
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To pick (a lock) with a rake.
- move through with or as if with a rake
- sweep the length of
- examine hastily
- level or smooth with a rake
- scrape gently
- (ambitransitive, figurative) Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- (military, nautical) To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- (intransitive, chiefly Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- (transitive) To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- (intransitive, rare) Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- (intransitive, falconry) Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To search through (thoroughly).
- (transitive, chiefly Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, also figurative) To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- (transitive) Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
- (ambitransitive, also figurative) To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- (ambitransitive) To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- (transitive, also figurative) Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)
noun
- The act of raking.
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- (gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- (British, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- (specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
- (Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- (Scotland) Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- (geology) The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- (mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, slang) A lot, plenty.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A type of lockpick that has a ridged or notched blade that moves across the pins in a pin tumbler lock, causing them to settle into a shear line.
- (Midlands, Northern England) Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”).
- (agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- (cellular automata) A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
noun
- A light-weight harvest rake.
- A hipped gable.
- (UK, dialect, childish) A cow.
- A mixture of clay and loam.
- (UK, dialect) A mule.
- A giant Asian catfish, Wallagonia Attu found in India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Indochina, Thailand, Java, and Sumatra.
- (US) A hornless or polled animal.
- An upright crank-driven saw with no gate or sash.
adj
noun
- the gathering of a ripened crop
- the consequence of an effort or activity
- the yield from plants in a single growing season
- the season for gathering crops
- (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences.
- The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits.
- (UK, dialectal) The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
- (agriculture) The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting.
- The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
- (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
verb
- remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation
- gather, as of natural products
- (transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
- (transitive) To take (an organ) from an organ donor.
- (transitive) To win, achieve a gain.
- (intransitive) To be occupied bringing in a harvest.
- (transitive) To take a living organism as part of a managed process to gather food or resources, often with the intention of maintaining a healthy population.
noun
- A person who harvests peat
- A device used to trim the edges of a lawn in a clean manner, down through to the dirt
- A device used to harvest peat, built-up organic detritus from a bog
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turf, cutter.; that which cuts turf
- A device used to harvest sod, living grass mats complete with its roots in soil
- A person who harvests sod
noun
- The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.
- (music) a bass guitar playing technique in which multiple notes are played rapidly from one string to another.
- A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.
adj
verb
noun
- someone who helps to gather the harvest
- farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields
- (forestry) A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees; an instance of this type.
- A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
- (computing) A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
- A North American butterfly species, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America; an individual of this species.
- (Ireland) A finnock (a young sea trout).
- Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.
noun
- a person who gathers
- A person who gathers things.
- a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
- (glassblowing) A worker who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing.
- A person who primarily gathers in a hunter-gatherer social system.
- (textiles) An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
- (business) A person who collects rent or taxes.
noun
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
- (masonry) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- A gathering.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
verb
- collect in one place
- conclude from evidence
- get people together
- look for (food) in nature
- draw and bring closer
- increase or develop
- draw together into folds or puckers
- increase in amount by collecting or gathering
- assemble or get together
- (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- To gain; to win.
- (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
- (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
- (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- (nautical) To haul in; to take up.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
- (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
- (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
- To collect normally separate things.
- To bring parts of a whole closer.
- To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
noun
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
- the social act of assembling
- a group of persons together in one place
- A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
- A charitable contribution; a collection.
- A group of people or things.
- (uncountable) The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.
- (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
- (medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
adj
verb
noun
noun
- A gathering to pick fruit.
- Something picked or pulled out.
- The act of making a choice; selection.
- (usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
- (usually pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
- The removal of defects from electrotype plates.
- The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.
- Dabbing in stoneworking.
- the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
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- The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
- (UK, education, historical, uncountable) The practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.
- The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
- (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
- (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
- (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
- A mass of something piled up or collected.
- (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation
- the act of accumulating
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- several things grouped together or considered as a whole
noun
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- (informal) A potato.
- A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
- (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- (informal) A hole in a sock.
- a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
- an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
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- (camping, transitive) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.
- (transitive) To dig up weeds with a spud.
- (drilling, transitive) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
- (roofing, transitive) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
- initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
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- A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
- A tool used for smoothing a mold.
- A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
- a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials
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- The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
- Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
- (rugby) The forming of players into a scrum.
- (sciences, mathematics) The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
- Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications.
- A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
- The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
- Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
- Clipping of meatpacking.
- any material used especially to protect something
- the enclosure of something in a package or box
- carrying something in a pack on the back
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- gather with a rake
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To pick (a lock) with a rake.
- move through with or as if with a rake
- sweep the length of
- examine hastily
- level or smooth with a rake
- scrape gently
- (ambitransitive, figurative) Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- (military, nautical) To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- (intransitive, chiefly Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- (transitive) To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- (intransitive, rare) Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- (intransitive, falconry) Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To search through (thoroughly).
- (transitive, chiefly Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, also figurative) To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- (transitive) Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
- (ambitransitive, also figurative) To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- (ambitransitive) To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- (transitive, also figurative) Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)
noun
- The act of raking.
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- (gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- (British, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- (specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
- (Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- (Scotland) Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- (geology) The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- (mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, slang) A lot, plenty.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A type of lockpick that has a ridged or notched blade that moves across the pins in a pin tumbler lock, causing them to settle into a shear line.
- (Midlands, Northern England) Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”).
- (agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- (cellular automata) A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
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- (British) Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.
- Any of various gastropods with a conical shell shape patelliform and a strong, muscular foot that they use to create strong suction to cling onto rocks or other hard surfaces.
- any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas
- mollusk with a low conical shell
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- To gather, collect.
- To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
- (by extension) To kill (animals, etc).
- To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
- (computer graphics) To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.
- To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
- look for and gather
- remove something that has been rejected
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- (seafood industry) A lobster having only one claw.
- A selection.
- (slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
- A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
- An organized killing of selected animals.
- (agriculture) An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
- the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
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- A sexually loose woman
- a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
- (when not otherwise specified) An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.
- (Orkney, Shetland) The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.
- Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.
- (slang, derogatory) Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).
- A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
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- To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
- (often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact
- (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
- To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
- store grain
- acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
- assemble or get together
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- (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
- (US, military, slang) A sailor.
- (countable, US, regional) A whoopie pie.
- (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
- a man who serves as a sailor
- a lump of slimy stuff
- informal terms for the mouth
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- A shallow in a body of water.
- Any large number of persons or things.
- A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
- (collective) A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
- a stretch of shallow water
- a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
- a large group of fish
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- To break up ground with a hoe.
- (Northern UK, colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
- To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
- (of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.
- To remove the kernels from a corncob.
- To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
- To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
- To thresh.
noun
- A male swan.
- Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
- (music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
- The seed-bearing head of a plant.
- A small fish, the miller's thumb.
- A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, stone, or excrement.
- A spider (cf. cobweb).
- A horse having a stout body and short legs.
- (uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
- Alternative form of COB.
- A corncob.
- Abbreviation of cobble.
- A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
- (Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
- A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
- (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
- Clipping of cobnut.
- adult male swan
- white gull having a black back and wings
- stocky short-legged harness horse
- nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus