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noun
- A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
- (Canada) A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.
- A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation.
- A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind.
- (UK) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it.
- (by extension) A long snowbank along the side of a road.
- (by extension) A ridge or berm at a perimeter
- A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade.
verb
noun
verb
adj
- (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry
- (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)
- (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening
- (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process
- freed from illness or injury
- (used especially of meat) cured in brine
verb
noun
- a stack of hay
- A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay.
- A dish composed of a starchy food (rice, tortillas, crackers, etc.) topped by a protein (beans, cheese, meat, etc.) in combination with fresh vegetables, assembled on the plate by the diner.
- (programming) The text string within which another string is searched for. (see: needle in a haystack)
- (more generally) Any place or collection of items through which one searches for something that is rare and hard to find.
- (canoeing) A standing wave in a rapid.
noun
- a stack of hay
- a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (‘rick’ and ‘wrick’ are British)
- (intransitive, dialectal) A noise, rattling.
- (US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
- (dialectal) A sharp or sudden move; a jerk or tug.
- (military, derogatory and demeaning) A new and naive boot camp inductee.
- Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.
verb
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- pile in ricks
- (transitive, dialectal) To pierce with a hook by means of a sudden jerk or pull.
- To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc; to wrench.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To raffle.
- To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.
- (transitive, dialectal) To scold.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To grumble.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To rattle, jingle, make a noise; to chatter.
verb
noun
- a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay
- Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
- A field or pasture; a piece of land either intentionally cultivated with grass or (especially) naturally covered with grass, especially one that is intended to be mown for hay or to be grazed.
noun
verb
- spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
- feed with grass
- cover with grass
- give away information about somebody
- shoot down, of birds
- (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
- (transitive) To feed with grass.
- (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
- (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
- (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
noun
- narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
- street names for marijuana
- bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
- a police informer who implicates many people
- (countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
- (uncountable) A lawn.
- (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
- (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
- (uncountable) The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
- (countable, uncountable) The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
- (countable, mining) The surface of a mine.
- (countable) Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
- (countable, British, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
noun
verb
noun
noun
- a small bundle of straw or hay
- a small tuft or lock
- a flock of snipe
- a small person
- An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.
- A small, thin line of cloud, smoke, or steam.
- A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
- A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; a twisted handful of something; any slender, flexible structure or group.
- A whisk, or small broom.
- (uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle.
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A small conical pile of hay or grass.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
- The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
- A cock pigeon.
- The indicator of a balance.
- A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
- A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- (slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, especially as term of address) A man; a fellow.
- A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
- A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
- (informal) Shuttlecock.
- A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
- The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
- (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
- The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
- (colloquial, vulgar) A penis.
- (Southern US, where it is now rare and dated; and African-American Vernacular, where it is still sometimes used) Vulva, vagina.
- The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
- The style or gnomon of a sundial.
- Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.
- faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid
- obscene terms for penis
- the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
- adult male chicken
- adult male bird
intj
verb
- (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
- (British, Ireland, transitive, slang) To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
- (transitive) To erect; to turn up.
- (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
- (transitive) To form into piles.
- (ambitransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
- tilt or slant to one side
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
- set the trigger of a firearm back for firing
noun
noun
noun
- Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
- (by extension) Any straw-like material, such as a person's hair.
- (Caribbean) Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
- A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.
- a house roof made with a plant material (as straw)
- hair resembling thatched roofing material
- plant stalks used as roofing material
verb
noun
- annual weedy grass used for hay
- low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States, Europe, Asia
- annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia
- coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere
- Alternative form of goosegrass
noun
- A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).
- (diving, gymnastics) A position with the knees straight and a tight bend at the hips with the torso folded over the legs, usually part of a jack-knife.
- (chiefly US) Clipping of turnpike.
- (military, historical) A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.
- Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, slang) A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
- A sharp, pointed staff or implement.
- (chiefly Northern England) Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
- medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
- a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
- any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere
- highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
- a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)
verb
- (ambitransitive, diving, gymnastics) To assume a pike position.
- (intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.
- (transitive) To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
- (intransitive) To equip with a turnpike.
- (intransitive, gambling) To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
noun
- a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying
- a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing
- (informal, fisticuffs) A particularly powerful punch, especially one which knocks down an opponent, thrown like a scythe chop for cutting hay, as agricultural haymakers used to have strong arms.
- (agriculture) A person or machine which harvests or prepares tall grass for use as animal fodder.
- (figuratively, by extension) Any decisive blow, shock, or forceful action.
noun
- The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
- (now regional) A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
- The act of mowing (a garden, grass, etc.).
- Alternative form of mew (a seagull)
- (cricket) A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.
- (now only dialectal) A scornful grimace; a wry face.
- a loft in a barn where hay is stored
verb
noun
- Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
- (uncountable, architecture) Reeding.
- (countable, music) Short for reed instrument.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
- (countable) The hollow stem of these plants.
- (mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
- (countable, historical) A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.
- (countable, weaving) A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.
- (countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
- (countable, music) Part of an aerophone musical instrument, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal, which vibrates to produce sound when air passes through it.
- a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
- tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
- a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
verb
verb
noun
- The wood of these trees.
- A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.
- Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) The baseball bat.
- (cricket, colloquial) A cricket bat.
- any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix
- a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers
noun
- (uncountable) Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
- (countable, collective) The whole group of live young born at the same time, typically in reference to mammals or (figurative, derogatory) unpleasant people or objects.
- (countable, uncommon) A bed, a substrate formed from loose materials.
- (uncountable) Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.
- (uncountable) Animal bedding together with its dung.
- (countable, loosely) Any of the other similar conveyances, such as sedan chairs, hammock litters, and the like.
- (countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.
- (uncountable) Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or other similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet animals.
- (uncountable) The layer of fallen leaves and other loose organic material on the ground in a forest.
- (medicine, countable) Synonym of stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand.
- material used to provide a bed for animals
- rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
- the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
- conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
adj
verb
- (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
- (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
- (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
- (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
- (transitive) To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
- (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
- (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
- strew
- give birth to a litter of animals
- make a place messy by strewing garbage around
noun
verb
noun
- Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
- Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
- a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
- bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
verb
verb
noun
- (military) Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.
- Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
- (figurative) Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
- Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
- The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
- foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
noun
- a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field
- a sudden jarring impact
- (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor
- an instance of agitation of the earth's crust
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
- the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat
- a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body
- a bushy thick mass (especially hair)
- a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses
- (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
- (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
- (physics) A shock wave.
- (medicine) Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
- A sudden, heavy impact.
- (psychology) A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.
- An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.
- A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels.
- (medicine) Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal.
- (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.
- (psychology) A state of distress following a mental or emotional disturbance, often caused by news or other stimuli.
- (automotive, mechanical engineering) A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).
verb
- strike with horror or terror
- strike with disgust or revulsion
- collide violently
- inflict a trauma upon
- collect or gather into shocks
- subject to electrical shocks
- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
- (transitive) To strike with disgust, to offend, scandalize.
- (transitive) To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.
- (transitive) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
- (transitive) To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.
- (transitive) To give an electric shock to.
- (transitive) To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel greatly surprised or upset.
- (geology, transitive) To deform the crystal structure of a stone by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature, as produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.
adj
noun
- A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
- (Canada) A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.
- A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation.
- A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind.
- (UK) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it.
- (by extension) A long snowbank along the side of a road.
- (by extension) A ridge or berm at a perimeter
- A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a stack of hay
- A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay.
- A dish composed of a starchy food (rice, tortillas, crackers, etc.) topped by a protein (beans, cheese, meat, etc.) in combination with fresh vegetables, assembled on the plate by the diner.
- (programming) The text string within which another string is searched for. (see: needle in a haystack)
- (more generally) Any place or collection of items through which one searches for something that is rare and hard to find.
- (canoeing) A standing wave in a rapid.
noun
- a stack of hay
- a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (‘rick’ and ‘wrick’ are British)
- (intransitive, dialectal) A noise, rattling.
- (US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
- (dialectal) A sharp or sudden move; a jerk or tug.
- (military, derogatory and demeaning) A new and naive boot camp inductee.
- Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.
verb
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- pile in ricks
- (transitive, dialectal) To pierce with a hook by means of a sudden jerk or pull.
- To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc; to wrench.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To raffle.
- To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.
- (transitive, dialectal) To scold.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To grumble.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To rattle, jingle, make a noise; to chatter.
noun
noun
noun
- a small bundle of straw or hay
- a small tuft or lock
- a flock of snipe
- a small person
- An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.
- A small, thin line of cloud, smoke, or steam.
- A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
- A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; a twisted handful of something; any slender, flexible structure or group.
- A whisk, or small broom.
- (uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle.
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A small conical pile of hay or grass.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
- The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
- A cock pigeon.
- The indicator of a balance.
- A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
- A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- (slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, especially as term of address) A man; a fellow.
- A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
- A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
- (informal) Shuttlecock.
- A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
- The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
- (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
- The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
- (colloquial, vulgar) A penis.
- (Southern US, where it is now rare and dated; and African-American Vernacular, where it is still sometimes used) Vulva, vagina.
- The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
- The style or gnomon of a sundial.
- Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.
- faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid
- obscene terms for penis
- the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
- adult male chicken
- adult male bird
intj
verb
- (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
- (British, Ireland, transitive, slang) To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
- (transitive) To erect; to turn up.
- (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
- (transitive) To form into piles.
- (ambitransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
- tilt or slant to one side
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
- set the trigger of a firearm back for firing
noun
noun
noun
- Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
- (by extension) Any straw-like material, such as a person's hair.
- (Caribbean) Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
- A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.
- a house roof made with a plant material (as straw)
- hair resembling thatched roofing material
- plant stalks used as roofing material
verb
noun
- annual weedy grass used for hay
- low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States, Europe, Asia
- annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia
- coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere
- Alternative form of goosegrass
noun
- A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).
- (diving, gymnastics) A position with the knees straight and a tight bend at the hips with the torso folded over the legs, usually part of a jack-knife.
- (chiefly US) Clipping of turnpike.
- (military, historical) A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.
- Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, slang) A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
- A sharp, pointed staff or implement.
- (chiefly Northern England) Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
- medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
- a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
- any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere
- highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
- a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)
verb
- (ambitransitive, diving, gymnastics) To assume a pike position.
- (intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.
- (transitive) To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
- (intransitive) To equip with a turnpike.
- (intransitive, gambling) To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
noun
- a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying
- a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing
- (informal, fisticuffs) A particularly powerful punch, especially one which knocks down an opponent, thrown like a scythe chop for cutting hay, as agricultural haymakers used to have strong arms.
- (agriculture) A person or machine which harvests or prepares tall grass for use as animal fodder.
- (figuratively, by extension) Any decisive blow, shock, or forceful action.
noun
- The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
- (now regional) A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
- The act of mowing (a garden, grass, etc.).
- Alternative form of mew (a seagull)
- (cricket) A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.
- (now only dialectal) A scornful grimace; a wry face.
- a loft in a barn where hay is stored
verb
noun
- Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
- (uncountable, architecture) Reeding.
- (countable, music) Short for reed instrument.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
- (countable) The hollow stem of these plants.
- (mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
- (countable, historical) A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.
- (countable, weaving) A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.
- (countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
- (countable, music) Part of an aerophone musical instrument, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal, which vibrates to produce sound when air passes through it.
- a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
- tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
- a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
verb
noun
- (uncountable) Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
- (countable, collective) The whole group of live young born at the same time, typically in reference to mammals or (figurative, derogatory) unpleasant people or objects.
- (countable, uncommon) A bed, a substrate formed from loose materials.
- (uncountable) Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.
- (uncountable) Animal bedding together with its dung.
- (countable, loosely) Any of the other similar conveyances, such as sedan chairs, hammock litters, and the like.
- (countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.
- (uncountable) Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or other similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet animals.
- (uncountable) The layer of fallen leaves and other loose organic material on the ground in a forest.
- (medicine, countable) Synonym of stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand.
- material used to provide a bed for animals
- rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
- the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
- conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
adj
verb
- (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
- (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
- (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
- (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
- (transitive) To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
- (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
- (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
- strew
- give birth to a litter of animals
- make a place messy by strewing garbage around
noun
verb
noun
- Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
- Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
- a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
- bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
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- a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field
- a sudden jarring impact
- (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor
- an instance of agitation of the earth's crust
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
- the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat
- a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body
- a bushy thick mass (especially hair)
- a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses
- (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
- (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
- (physics) A shock wave.
- (medicine) Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
- A sudden, heavy impact.
- (psychology) A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.
- An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.
- A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels.
- (medicine) Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal.
- (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.
- (psychology) A state of distress following a mental or emotional disturbance, often caused by news or other stimuli.
- (automotive, mechanical engineering) A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).
verb
- strike with horror or terror
- strike with disgust or revulsion
- collide violently
- inflict a trauma upon
- collect or gather into shocks
- subject to electrical shocks
- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
- (transitive) To strike with disgust, to offend, scandalize.
- (transitive) To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.
- (transitive) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
- (transitive) To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.
- (transitive) To give an electric shock to.
- (transitive) To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel greatly surprised or upset.
- (geology, transitive) To deform the crystal structure of a stone by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature, as produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.
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- a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay
- Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
- A field or pasture; a piece of land either intentionally cultivated with grass or (especially) naturally covered with grass, especially one that is intended to be mown for hay or to be grazed.
verb
noun
- a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay
- Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
- A field or pasture; a piece of land either intentionally cultivated with grass or (especially) naturally covered with grass, especially one that is intended to be mown for hay or to be grazed.
verb
- spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
- feed with grass
- cover with grass
- give away information about somebody
- shoot down, of birds
- (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
- (transitive) To feed with grass.
- (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
- (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
- (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
noun
- narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
- street names for marijuana
- bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
- a police informer who implicates many people
- (countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
- (uncountable) A lawn.
- (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
- (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
- (uncountable) The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
- (countable, uncountable) The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
- (countable, mining) The surface of a mine.
- (countable) Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
- (countable, British, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
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- Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
- (by extension) Any straw-like material, such as a person's hair.
- (Caribbean) Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
- A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.
- a house roof made with a plant material (as straw)
- hair resembling thatched roofing material
- plant stalks used as roofing material
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- The wood of these trees.
- A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.
- Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) The baseball bat.
- (cricket, colloquial) A cricket bat.
- any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix
- a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers
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- (military) Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.
- Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
- (figurative) Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
- Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
- The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
- foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
noun
- A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
- (Canada) A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.
- A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation.
- A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind.
- (UK) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it.
- (by extension) A long snowbank along the side of a road.
- (by extension) A ridge or berm at a perimeter
- A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade.
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adj
- (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry
- (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)
- (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening
- (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process
- freed from illness or injury
- (used especially of meat) cured in brine