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verb
- (Australia, intransitive, informal) To reach or arrive at (a place).
- (transitive, sports) To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
- (transitive, colloquial) To throw.
- (transitive, colloquial) To put, place.
- (transitive) To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc.
- propel in a high arc
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noun
noun
verb
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- A beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale).
- Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
- (cooking, fishing) Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes.
- Any of several other fish, such as whiting (Merlangius merlangus) or menhaden (Brevoortia spp. and Ethmidium spp.).
- A lesser queenfish (Scomberoides lysan)
- any market fish — edible saltwater fish or shellfish — except herring
- silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
- flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
noun
- Fishing offal.
- (now dialectal) Diarrhoea.
- (historical, India) A circular gong that was struck at regular intervals to indicate the time.
- (India) A small fort.
- (historical, India) The time interval indicated by striking the gurry. Originally, this was twenty-two and a half minutes, but later, under British influence, changed to an hour.
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verb
noun
- Any of various other ray-finned fishes in several families.
- Centropomus undecimalis (common snook).
- A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes.
- (UK, derogatory, as a gesture) A disrespectful gesture, performed by placing the tip of a thumb on one's nose with the fingers spread, and typically while wiggling the fingers back and forth.
- large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike
noun
verb
noun
- disparaging terms for small people
- any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
- (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
- (slang, uncommon) Synonym of butterface
- Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
- (slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.
- (slang, derogatory) A small penis.
verb
noun
- a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
- a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
- A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
- A net or dragnet used for trawling.
- An exhaustive search.
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verb
adj
noun
- (figuratively) A person or thing of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
- (sports, especially soccer, cricket) a team that is considered less skilled and not expected to win many, if any, of its matches.
- (fishing) An artificial bait in the form of a small fish.
- Any small fish.
- (British, regional) Synonym of stickleback (family Gasterosteidae).
- Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of other (small) fish from the family Cyprinidae; also (chiefly US), other small (usually freshwater) fish from other families.
- The common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus), a small freshwater fish of the carp family Cyprinidae which has a green back with black elongated blotches, commonly swimming in large shoals.
- (Australia, New Zealand) Synonym of galaxiid (“any member of the family Galaxiidae of mostly small freshwater fish of the Southern Hemisphere”); specifically, the common galaxias, inanga, or jollytail (Galaxias maculatus).
- very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams
verb
- fish with a hook
- move or proceed at an angle
- seek indirectly
- present with a bias
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
- (transitive, billiards) To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.
- (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.
- (intransitive) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
- (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
- (figurative, informal, with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
- (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
noun
- a biased way of looking at or presenting something
- the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians
- A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
- A change in direction.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A corner where two walls intersect.
- (slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
- (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
- (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
- (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
- (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefiting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral.
- (media) The focus of a news story.
- A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
- A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
verb
- supply with fish
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- equip with a stock
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- have on hand
- supply with livestock
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
adj
- routine
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- regularly and widely used or sold
- (motor racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
noun
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- any animals kept for use or profit
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- a supply of something available for future use
- an ornamental white cravat
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (especially US) A share in a company.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- Ellipsis of film stock.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A store or supply.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A ski pole.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.
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verb
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- shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible
- any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- (Australia, colloquial, derogatory) Synonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.
- (Australia, slang) A fool, an idiot.
- (Commonwealth) A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.
- Alternative form of porn.
- A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
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noun
- A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.
- A sudoku technique involving possible cell locations for a digit, or pair, or triple, in uniquely three rows and three columns only. This allows for the elimination of candidates around the grid.
- flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks
- large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night
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adj
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- the occupation of catching fish for a living
- (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
- the act of someone who fishes as a diversion
- (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
- (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
- (uncountable) The act of catching fish.
verb
noun
- A scombroid fish.
- (uncountable) A relatively low-quality grade of Spanish saffron.
- A rugged range of mountains.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Sierra from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- a Spanish mackerel of western North America
- a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline)
verb
noun
- (colloquial) One who wastes time on nonproductive activities online.
- (colloquial) One who studies excessively and is disliked by fellow students because of it; a swot.
- (fishing) A container used to distribute a large amount of bait in a single cast.
- (Internet) One who uses talkers, an early form of chat room.
- (colloquial) A person of clumsy or awkward appearance.
verb
- To fish using a bolter.
- To pound rapidly.
- (of a whale) To swim or turn sideways while eating.
- (dialect) To smear or become smeared with a grimy substance.
- To sift or filter through a sieve or bolter.
- (military, aviation) To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by failing to catch the arresting gear wires with the aircraft's tailhook.
noun
- (military, aviation) A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing.
- A kind of fishing line; a boulter.
- (Australia, sports) An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.
- (petroleum refining) A filter mechanism.
- (Australia, horseracing) A horse that wins at long odds.
- (US, politics) A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee.
- A person who sifts flour or meal.
- A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.
- (New Zealand, sports) In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.
- (botany, horticulture) A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.
- (flour milling) A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.
- (climbing) Someone who equips a sport route by putting bolts in the rock.
noun
- A place where fish or other seafood are caught: a fishing ground (for example, a territorial one).
- (uncountable) Fishing: the catching, processing and marketing of fish or other seafood.
- A place where fish or other seafood are raised: a fish farm.
- (countable) A right to fish in a particular location, such as territorial fishing waters.
- A place where fish or other seafood are processed: a seafood factory.
- (countable) A fishing company.
- a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold
verb
- fish for crab
- scurry sideways like a crab
- complain
- direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
- (rare) To back out of something.
- (transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- (zoology, of sugar gliders) To make a loud, rapid rattling sound when scared, stressed, or agitated.
- (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
- (transitive) To complain about.
- (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
- (intransitive) To complain.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- (transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
noun
- decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- a quarrelsome grouch
- the edible flesh of any of various crabs
- a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
- a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
- (Singapore, military, slang) On an insignia, a coat of arms symbol representing a senior rank.
- (uncountable, aviation) Ellipsis of crab angle.
- (poker slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
- (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- (informal) Clipping of carabiner, modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- (uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- Any of various crustacean in the infraorder Anomura, usually excluding squat lobsters.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- (derogatory, Blood slang) A member of the Crips.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- A horseshoe crab.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A bad-tempered person.
noun
verb
- (Australia, intransitive, informal) To reach or arrive at (a place).
- (transitive, sports) To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
- (transitive, colloquial) To throw.
- (transitive, colloquial) To put, place.
- (transitive) To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc.
- propel in a high arc
noun
noun
- Fishing offal.
- (now dialectal) Diarrhoea.
- (historical, India) A circular gong that was struck at regular intervals to indicate the time.
- (India) A small fort.
- (historical, India) The time interval indicated by striking the gurry. Originally, this was twenty-two and a half minutes, but later, under British influence, changed to an hour.
noun
noun
noun
noun
- the occupation of catching fish for a living
- (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
- the act of someone who fishes as a diversion
- (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
- (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
- (uncountable) The act of catching fish.
verb
noun
- A scombroid fish.
- (uncountable) A relatively low-quality grade of Spanish saffron.
- A rugged range of mountains.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Sierra from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- a Spanish mackerel of western North America
- a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline)
noun
- A place where fish or other seafood are caught: a fishing ground (for example, a territorial one).
- (uncountable) Fishing: the catching, processing and marketing of fish or other seafood.
- A place where fish or other seafood are raised: a fish farm.
- (countable) A right to fish in a particular location, such as territorial fishing waters.
- A place where fish or other seafood are processed: a seafood factory.
- (countable) A fishing company.
- a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold
verb
noun
verb
noun
- A beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale).
- Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
- (cooking, fishing) Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes.
- Any of several other fish, such as whiting (Merlangius merlangus) or menhaden (Brevoortia spp. and Ethmidium spp.).
- A lesser queenfish (Scomberoides lysan)
- any market fish — edible saltwater fish or shellfish — except herring
- silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
- flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
verb
noun
- Any of various other ray-finned fishes in several families.
- Centropomus undecimalis (common snook).
- A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes.
- (UK, derogatory, as a gesture) A disrespectful gesture, performed by placing the tip of a thumb on one's nose with the fingers spread, and typically while wiggling the fingers back and forth.
- large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike
verb
noun
- disparaging terms for small people
- any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
- (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
- (slang, uncommon) Synonym of butterface
- Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
- (slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.
- (slang, derogatory) A small penis.
verb
noun
- a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
- a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
- A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
- A net or dragnet used for trawling.
- An exhaustive search.
verb
adj
noun
- (figuratively) A person or thing of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
- (sports, especially soccer, cricket) a team that is considered less skilled and not expected to win many, if any, of its matches.
- (fishing) An artificial bait in the form of a small fish.
- Any small fish.
- (British, regional) Synonym of stickleback (family Gasterosteidae).
- Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of other (small) fish from the family Cyprinidae; also (chiefly US), other small (usually freshwater) fish from other families.
- The common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus), a small freshwater fish of the carp family Cyprinidae which has a green back with black elongated blotches, commonly swimming in large shoals.
- (Australia, New Zealand) Synonym of galaxiid (“any member of the family Galaxiidae of mostly small freshwater fish of the Southern Hemisphere”); specifically, the common galaxias, inanga, or jollytail (Galaxias maculatus).
- very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams
verb
- fish with a hook
- move or proceed at an angle
- seek indirectly
- present with a bias
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
- (transitive, billiards) To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.
- (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.
- (intransitive) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
- (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
- (figurative, informal, with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
- (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
noun
- a biased way of looking at or presenting something
- the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians
- A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
- A change in direction.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A corner where two walls intersect.
- (slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
- (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
- (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
- (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
- (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefiting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral.
- (media) The focus of a news story.
- A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
- A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
verb
- supply with fish
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- equip with a stock
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- have on hand
- supply with livestock
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
adj
- routine
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- regularly and widely used or sold
- (motor racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
noun
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- any animals kept for use or profit
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- a supply of something available for future use
- an ornamental white cravat
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (especially US) A share in a company.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- Ellipsis of film stock.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A store or supply.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A ski pole.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.
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- shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible
- any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- (Australia, colloquial, derogatory) Synonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.
- (Australia, slang) A fool, an idiot.
- (Commonwealth) A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.
- Alternative form of porn.
- A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
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- A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.
- A sudoku technique involving possible cell locations for a digit, or pair, or triple, in uniquely three rows and three columns only. This allows for the elimination of candidates around the grid.
- flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks
- large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night
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- (colloquial) One who wastes time on nonproductive activities online.
- (colloquial) One who studies excessively and is disliked by fellow students because of it; a swot.
- (fishing) A container used to distribute a large amount of bait in a single cast.
- (Internet) One who uses talkers, an early form of chat room.
- (colloquial) A person of clumsy or awkward appearance.
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- To fish using a bolter.
- To pound rapidly.
- (of a whale) To swim or turn sideways while eating.
- (dialect) To smear or become smeared with a grimy substance.
- To sift or filter through a sieve or bolter.
- (military, aviation) To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by failing to catch the arresting gear wires with the aircraft's tailhook.
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- (military, aviation) A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing.
- A kind of fishing line; a boulter.
- (Australia, sports) An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.
- (petroleum refining) A filter mechanism.
- (Australia, horseracing) A horse that wins at long odds.
- (US, politics) A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee.
- A person who sifts flour or meal.
- A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.
- (New Zealand, sports) In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.
- (botany, horticulture) A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.
- (flour milling) A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.
- (climbing) Someone who equips a sport route by putting bolts in the rock.
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- fish for crab
- scurry sideways like a crab
- complain
- direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
- (rare) To back out of something.
- (transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- (zoology, of sugar gliders) To make a loud, rapid rattling sound when scared, stressed, or agitated.
- (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
- (transitive) To complain about.
- (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
- (intransitive) To complain.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- (transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
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- decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- a quarrelsome grouch
- the edible flesh of any of various crabs
- a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
- a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
- (Singapore, military, slang) On an insignia, a coat of arms symbol representing a senior rank.
- (uncountable, aviation) Ellipsis of crab angle.
- (poker slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
- (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- (informal) Clipping of carabiner, modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- (uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- Any of various crustacean in the infraorder Anomura, usually excluding squat lobsters.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- (derogatory, Blood slang) A member of the Crips.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- A horseshoe crab.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A bad-tempered person.