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- (of a chimney) The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece.
- The setting about of an action; development; progress.
- (dialectal) A heavy fall of rain or snow; cloudburst.
- The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion.
- (dialectal) A mysterious disease or ailment.
- An attack; an attack or onset of a disease, fit, or episode.
- Advent, arrival, approach; onset.
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- an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built
- A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
- A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
- home symbolized as a part of the fireplace
- an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)
- (Germanic paganism) A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.
- The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
- (figurative) Home or family life.
- A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
- The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
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- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- (mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
- A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a tunnel.
- An underground or underwater passage.
- (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter
- a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)
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- (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
- (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
- (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
- move through by or as by digging
- force a way through
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- A long sheet-metal pipe for a chimney top.
- (US) A tall beer can, either 16 or 24 ounces (473 or 710ml).
- (furniture) A tall chest of drawers, or combination of chest on chest, or chest with a small wardrobe on top. Usually with low bracket feet but always resulting in a tall piece of furniture.
- A kind of long-stemmed wineglass or cup.
- (nautical) A kind of sail, a spanker.
- a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs
noun
- A chimney pot.
- (childish or vulgar, slang, Canada, US) Buttocks.
- (slang) Jail or prison.
- (US, slang) An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
- A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
- (slang, in the plural) An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
- (vulgar, slang, Canada, US) The breasts of a woman.
- (slang, in the plural) Headphones.
- A sealed metal container, cylindrical or cuboid in form, typically used to store preserved foods.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal.
- (nautical) A cylindrical buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- a buoy with a round bottom and conical top
- airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
- the quantity contained in a can
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
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- (transitive) To seal in a can.
- (Manglish, Singlish, intransitive) To be fine or acceptable; to be possible; (with liao or already) to be enough. Often used in conjunction with a variety of clause-final particles, e.g., lah, meh or one, to express different attitudes towards the subject matter.
- (transitive) To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) Used to form requests, typically polite.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; to be possible for (someone or something) to.
- (transitive) To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
- (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to.
- (transitive) To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- (India, nonstandard, proscribed) To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed). third-person singular simple present indicative of can
- (golf, slang, transitive) To hole the ball.
- (auxiliary verb, defective) To be able to.
- (Manglish, Singlish, auxiliary or intransitive) To be able to or know how to (do something); an accompanying verb is not required if it is already inferable from context.
- (US, euphemistic, transitive) To fire or dismiss an employee.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- (transitive, slang) To shut up.
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- preserve in a can or tin
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- chimney consisting of a metal pipe of large diameter that is used to connect a stove to a flue
- a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
- (military slang, World War I– World War II) A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.
- A channel for information which is compartmentalized in such a manner that some parties who might be interested in its use or able to make use of it are restricted from accessing it.
- (clothing) A stovepipe hat.
- Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.
- (firearms) A type of malfunction affecting breechloading firearms, where a spent cartridge casing fails to eject completely, instead becoming stuck in the firearm's ejection port, usually oriented vertically or nearly so.
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- (transitive, idiomatic) To collect or store (information) in a compartmentalized manner, so that some parties who might be interested in its use or able to make use of it are restricted from accessing it.
- (intransitive, firearms) Of a cartridge case, to become wedged vertically in the ejection port of a breechloading firearm, rather than ejecting completely from the weapon.
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- A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.
- (mycology) A mushroom of the genus Mycena.
- (Commonwealth, automotive) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor car.
- A small defence work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.
- (by extension) The polishing head of a power buffer, often made of wool.
- A traditional Scottish woollen brimless cap; a bunnet.
- (historical) A ducat, an old Scottish coin worth 40 shillings.
- A type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin.
- A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.
- The second stomach of a ruminant.
- A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.
- (nautical) A length of canvas attached to a fore-and-aft sail to increase the pulling power.
- In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.
- a hat tied under the chin
- protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
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- The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
- (rail transport) Short for station throat
- The front part of the neck.
- (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
- A narrow opening in a vessel.
- The gullet or windpipe.
- (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
- (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
- (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
- (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
- the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone
- the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's throat
- a passage resembling a throat in shape or function
- an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep
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- a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
- an orderly pile
- a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
- a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- (video games) The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.
- A smokestack.
- (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
- (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
- (bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
- (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
- A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
- (UK) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
- (computing, often with "the") A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
- (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
- A vertical drainpipe.
- A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
- (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
- (programming) A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).
- (mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
- (aviation) A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.
- An extensive collection
- (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
- A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
- A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.
- A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
- (networking) An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).
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- load or cover with stacks
- arrange in stacks
- arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances
- (transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.
- (transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.
- (transitive, by extension) To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
- (gaming) To operate cumulatively.
- (aviation, transitive) To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
- (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
- (transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
- (printing) To have excessive ink transfer.
- (informal, intransitive) To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
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- A cap or cowl for a chimney or ventilation pipe.
- A gusset in sewing, etc.
- A mitre shell
- (historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I.
- A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks.
- (geometry, rare) A square with one triangular quarter missing from the outside.
- The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.
- the surface of a beveled end of a piece where a miter joint is made
- joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner
- a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions
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- The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
- shelf that projects from wall above fireplace
- (exogeology) Any similar layer in an exoplanet.
- (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
- The zone of hot gases around a flame.
- (heraldry) A mantling.
- A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
- (geology) The layer between Earth's core and crust.
- (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
- (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
- A penstock for a water wheel.
- Alternative spelling of mantel (“shelf above fireplace”).
- A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.)
- (malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
- (ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
- (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
- anything that covers
- the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
- the cloak as a symbol of authority
- a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
- hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
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- (intransitive) To become covered or concealed.
- (falconry) The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.
- To climb over or onto something.
- (transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
- (falconry) The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.
- (intransitive) To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
- spread over a surface, like a mantle
- cover like a mantle
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- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
- (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
- (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.
- (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
- (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- the quantity contained in a pot
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- a container in which plants are cultivated
- street names for marijuana
- slang for a paunch
- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
- (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
- To put (something) into a pot.
- (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).
- (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
- (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
- (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
- plant in a pot
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- a low metal framework in front of a fireplace, intended to catch hot coals, soot, and ash
- (US) a shield, usually of plastic or metal, on a bicycle that protects the rider from mud or water
- (nautical) any shaped cushion-like object normally made from polymers, rubber or wood that is placed along the sides of a boat to prevent damage when moored alongside another vessel or jetty, or when using a lock, etc. Modern variations are cylindrical although older wooden version and rubbing strips can still be found; old tyres are used as a cheap substitute
- (US) panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- a cushion-like device that reduces shock due to an impact
- an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
- a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud
- a low metal guard to confine falling coals to a hearth
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- A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.
- (nautical) A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge.
- A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
- (metonymic) A monk.
- (nautical) A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below.
- A mask that covers the majority of the head.
- A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth).
- A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling.
- a loose hood or hooded robe (as worn by a monk)
- protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
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- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
- (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- (chiefly Cornwall) A thick drizzling rain or driving mist.
- (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
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- (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
- (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
- (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
- having an oblique or slanting direction or position
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- (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
- (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- turn or place at an angle
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- (architecture) A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.
- A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
- (mechanical engineering) A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.
- (usually in the plural) The tooth of such a wheel.
- thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain
- roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through
- tooth on the rim of gear wheel
noun
- A chimney sweep.
- (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- (rowing, attributive) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- (possibly US, regional) The act of police removing a homeless encampment from a public space.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- (aviation) The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- (US, television) singular of sweeps (“viewership ratings”)
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- Violent and general destruction.
- (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A single action of sweeping.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- (metalworking) A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- someone who cleans soot from chimneys
- winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- a wide scope
- a movement in an arc
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
- a long oar used in an open boat
verb
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
- (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
- (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- (rowing) To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
- (Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana) To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- (military) To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- cover the entire range of
- clean by sweeping
- win an overwhelming victory in or on
- sweep across or over
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
noun
- a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building
- a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp
- A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
- The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
- (vulgar, euphemistic) A vagina.
- (Northern Ireland, slang) A black eye; a shiner.
- (British) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
- A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.
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- A conduit through which exhaust gases are conducted to a chimney.
- (nautical) A rope used to secure a cannon.
- (slang) A beating or flogging.
- (historical) The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time.
- (equestrianism) A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.
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- (dialectal, UK) a chimney.
- The cryptobiotic state of a tardigrade, when its metabolism is temporarily suspended.
- (Malaysia) A respectful term of address to royalties and certain award recipients
- Synonym of long ton: a unit of mass equal to 2240 pounds, 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
- A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.
- Any shell belonging to Tonna and allied genera.
- (figurative) Synonym of ton: any extremely or excessively large amount.
- A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- (historical) A traditional unit of liquid measure (from the volume of such a cask) equal to 252 wine gallons or 2 pipes.
- (brewing) A fermenting vat.
- a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals
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- The fire chamber of a furnace.
- A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
- (figurative, in the plural) Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.
- (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
- Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
- The shell of such a mollusk.
- Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
- The dome of a heating furnace.
- (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
- (Cornwall, mining) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
- common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
- common edible European bivalve
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- a triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof
- (architecture) A classical architectural element consisting of a triangular section or gable found above the horizontal superstructure (entablature) which lies immediately upon the columns; fronton.
- (geology) A very gently sloping (0.5°-7°) inclined bedrock surface.
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- (of a chimney) The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece.
- The setting about of an action; development; progress.
- (dialectal) A heavy fall of rain or snow; cloudburst.
- The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion.
- (dialectal) A mysterious disease or ailment.
- An attack; an attack or onset of a disease, fit, or episode.
- Advent, arrival, approach; onset.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built
- A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
- A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
- home symbolized as a part of the fireplace
- an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)
- (Germanic paganism) A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.
- The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
- (figurative) Home or family life.
- A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
- The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
noun
- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- (mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
- A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a tunnel.
- An underground or underwater passage.
- (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter
- a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)
verb
- (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
- (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
- (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
- move through by or as by digging
- force a way through
noun
- A long sheet-metal pipe for a chimney top.
- (US) A tall beer can, either 16 or 24 ounces (473 or 710ml).
- (furniture) A tall chest of drawers, or combination of chest on chest, or chest with a small wardrobe on top. Usually with low bracket feet but always resulting in a tall piece of furniture.
- A kind of long-stemmed wineglass or cup.
- (nautical) A kind of sail, a spanker.
- a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs
noun
- A chimney pot.
- (childish or vulgar, slang, Canada, US) Buttocks.
- (slang) Jail or prison.
- (US, slang) An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
- A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
- (slang, in the plural) An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
- (vulgar, slang, Canada, US) The breasts of a woman.
- (slang, in the plural) Headphones.
- A sealed metal container, cylindrical or cuboid in form, typically used to store preserved foods.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal.
- (nautical) A cylindrical buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- a buoy with a round bottom and conical top
- airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
- the quantity contained in a can
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
intj
particle
verb
- (transitive) To seal in a can.
- (Manglish, Singlish, intransitive) To be fine or acceptable; to be possible; (with liao or already) to be enough. Often used in conjunction with a variety of clause-final particles, e.g., lah, meh or one, to express different attitudes towards the subject matter.
- (transitive) To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) Used to form requests, typically polite.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; to be possible for (someone or something) to.
- (transitive) To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
- (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to.
- (transitive) To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- (India, nonstandard, proscribed) To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed). third-person singular simple present indicative of can
- (golf, slang, transitive) To hole the ball.
- (auxiliary verb, defective) To be able to.
- (Manglish, Singlish, auxiliary or intransitive) To be able to or know how to (do something); an accompanying verb is not required if it is already inferable from context.
- (US, euphemistic, transitive) To fire or dismiss an employee.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- (transitive, slang) To shut up.
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- preserve in a can or tin
noun
noun
intj
verb
noun
- chimney consisting of a metal pipe of large diameter that is used to connect a stove to a flue
- a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
- (military slang, World War I– World War II) A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.
- A channel for information which is compartmentalized in such a manner that some parties who might be interested in its use or able to make use of it are restricted from accessing it.
- (clothing) A stovepipe hat.
- Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.
- (firearms) A type of malfunction affecting breechloading firearms, where a spent cartridge casing fails to eject completely, instead becoming stuck in the firearm's ejection port, usually oriented vertically or nearly so.
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic) To collect or store (information) in a compartmentalized manner, so that some parties who might be interested in its use or able to make use of it are restricted from accessing it.
- (intransitive, firearms) Of a cartridge case, to become wedged vertically in the ejection port of a breechloading firearm, rather than ejecting completely from the weapon.
noun
- A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.
- (mycology) A mushroom of the genus Mycena.
- (Commonwealth, automotive) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor car.
- A small defence work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.
- (by extension) The polishing head of a power buffer, often made of wool.
- A traditional Scottish woollen brimless cap; a bunnet.
- (historical) A ducat, an old Scottish coin worth 40 shillings.
- A type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin.
- A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.
- The second stomach of a ruminant.
- A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.
- (nautical) A length of canvas attached to a fore-and-aft sail to increase the pulling power.
- In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.
- a hat tied under the chin
- protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
verb
noun
- The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
- (rail transport) Short for station throat
- The front part of the neck.
- (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
- A narrow opening in a vessel.
- The gullet or windpipe.
- (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
- (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
- (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
- (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
- the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone
- the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's throat
- a passage resembling a throat in shape or function
- an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep
verb
noun
- a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
- an orderly pile
- a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
- a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- (video games) The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.
- A smokestack.
- (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
- (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
- (bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
- (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
- A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
- (UK) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
- (computing, often with "the") A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
- (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
- A vertical drainpipe.
- A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
- (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
- (programming) A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).
- (mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
- (aviation) A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.
- An extensive collection
- (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
- A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
- A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.
- A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
- (networking) An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).
verb
- load or cover with stacks
- arrange in stacks
- arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances
- (transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.
- (transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.
- (transitive, by extension) To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
- (gaming) To operate cumulatively.
- (aviation, transitive) To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
- (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
- (transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
- (printing) To have excessive ink transfer.
- (informal, intransitive) To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
noun
- A cap or cowl for a chimney or ventilation pipe.
- A gusset in sewing, etc.
- A mitre shell
- (historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I.
- A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks.
- (geometry, rare) A square with one triangular quarter missing from the outside.
- The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.
- the surface of a beveled end of a piece where a miter joint is made
- joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner
- a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions
verb
noun
- The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
- shelf that projects from wall above fireplace
- (exogeology) Any similar layer in an exoplanet.
- (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
- The zone of hot gases around a flame.
- (heraldry) A mantling.
- A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
- (geology) The layer between Earth's core and crust.
- (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
- (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
- A penstock for a water wheel.
- Alternative spelling of mantel (“shelf above fireplace”).
- A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.)
- (malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
- (ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
- (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
- anything that covers
- the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
- the cloak as a symbol of authority
- a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
- hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
verb
- (intransitive) To become covered or concealed.
- (falconry) The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.
- To climb over or onto something.
- (transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
- (falconry) The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.
- (intransitive) To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
- spread over a surface, like a mantle
- cover like a mantle
noun
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
- (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
- (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.
- (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
- (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- the quantity contained in a pot
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- a container in which plants are cultivated
- street names for marijuana
- slang for a paunch
- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
- (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
- To put (something) into a pot.
- (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).
- (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
- (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
- (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
- plant in a pot
noun
- a low metal framework in front of a fireplace, intended to catch hot coals, soot, and ash
- (US) a shield, usually of plastic or metal, on a bicycle that protects the rider from mud or water
- (nautical) any shaped cushion-like object normally made from polymers, rubber or wood that is placed along the sides of a boat to prevent damage when moored alongside another vessel or jetty, or when using a lock, etc. Modern variations are cylindrical although older wooden version and rubbing strips can still be found; old tyres are used as a cheap substitute
- (US) panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- a cushion-like device that reduces shock due to an impact
- an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
- a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud
- a low metal guard to confine falling coals to a hearth
verb
noun
- A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.
- (nautical) A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge.
- A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
- (metonymic) A monk.
- (nautical) A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below.
- A mask that covers the majority of the head.
- A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth).
- A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling.
- a loose hood or hooded robe (as worn by a monk)
- protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
adj
verb
noun
- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
- (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- (chiefly Cornwall) A thick drizzling rain or driving mist.
- (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
adj
- (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
- (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
- (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
- having an oblique or slanting direction or position
adv
verb
- (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
- (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- turn or place at an angle
noun
- (architecture) A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.
- A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
- (mechanical engineering) A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.
- (usually in the plural) The tooth of such a wheel.
- thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain
- roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through
- tooth on the rim of gear wheel
noun
- A chimney sweep.
- (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- (rowing, attributive) A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- (possibly US, regional) The act of police removing a homeless encampment from a public space.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- (aviation) The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- (US, television) singular of sweeps (“viewership ratings”)
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- Violent and general destruction.
- (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A single action of sweeping.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- (metalworking) A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- someone who cleans soot from chimneys
- winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- a wide scope
- a movement in an arc
- (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
- a long oar used in an open boat
verb
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
- (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
- (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- (rowing) To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- (transitive, ergative) To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
- (Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana) To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- (military) To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- cover the entire range of
- clean by sweeping
- win an overwhelming victory in or on
- sweep across or over
- sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
noun
- a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building
- a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp
- A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
- The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
- (vulgar, euphemistic) A vagina.
- (Northern Ireland, slang) A black eye; a shiner.
- (British) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
- A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.
verb
noun
- A conduit through which exhaust gases are conducted to a chimney.
- (nautical) A rope used to secure a cannon.
- (slang) A beating or flogging.
- (historical) The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time.
- (equestrianism) A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.
noun
- (dialectal, UK) a chimney.
- The cryptobiotic state of a tardigrade, when its metabolism is temporarily suspended.
- (Malaysia) A respectful term of address to royalties and certain award recipients
- Synonym of long ton: a unit of mass equal to 2240 pounds, 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
- A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.
- Any shell belonging to Tonna and allied genera.
- (figurative) Synonym of ton: any extremely or excessively large amount.
- A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- (historical) A traditional unit of liquid measure (from the volume of such a cask) equal to 252 wine gallons or 2 pipes.
- (brewing) A fermenting vat.
- a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals
verb
noun
- The fire chamber of a furnace.
- A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
- (figurative, in the plural) Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.
- (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
- Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
- The shell of such a mollusk.
- Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
- The dome of a heating furnace.
- (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
- (Cornwall, mining) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
- common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
- common edible European bivalve
verb
noun
- a triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof
- (architecture) A classical architectural element consisting of a triangular section or gable found above the horizontal superstructure (entablature) which lies immediately upon the columns; fronton.
- (geology) A very gently sloping (0.5°-7°) inclined bedrock surface.
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noun
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