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- A ferryboat.
- (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
- (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
- (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- (figuratively) The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
- (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house or the rear storeroom of a retail store.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
- (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- (printing) The inside margin of a page.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
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- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- At or near the rear.
- Not current.
- (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
- located at or near the back of an animal
- of an earlier date
- related to or located at the back
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- In a manner that impedes.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
- (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- in or to or toward a former location
- in reply
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in repayment or retaliation
- in or to or toward a past time
- in or to or toward an original condition
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- (transitive) To push or force backwards.
- (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- (transitive) To support.
- (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out).
- (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
- (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To row backward with (oars).
- (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one’s back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- be in back of
- travel backward
- establish as valid or genuine
- place a bet on
- give support or one's approval to
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- support financial backing for
- be behind; approve of
- cause to travel backward
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- (nautical) A tugboat.
- (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
- (UK, slang) A foundationer or colleger at Eton.
- (slang) An act of male masturbation.
- A type of tractor used for moving trailers.
- A sudden powerful pull.
- A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
- A dog toy consisting of a rope, often with a knot in it.
- a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships
- a sudden abrupt pull
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- (transitive) To pull hard repeatedly.
- (transitive) To pull or drag with great effort.
- (slang, ambitransitive) To masturbate.
- (transitive) To tow by tugboat.
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- move by pulling hard
- struggle in opposition
- pull or strain hard at
- tow (a vessel) with a tug
- carry with difficulty
- pull hard
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- a sailing vessel with a specified rig
- a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists
- someone who rigs ships
- someone who works on an oil rig
- One who rigs or manipulates (an election, etc).
- One whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship or of a counterweight system.
- (paraskiing) Ellipsis of outrigger.
- (BDSM) A person who applies functional or artistic rope bondage to another person's body.
- (in combination) A ship with a certain type of rigging.
- (New Zealand) A plastic bottle of beer, typically between 1 L to 2.5 L volume.
- A long, slender, pointed sable paintbrush for making fine lines, etc.; said to be so called from its use for drawing the lines of the rigging of ships.
- A part of a rowing boat's equipment used to provide leverage for a rowing blade or oar around a fixed fulcrum.
- A worker on an oil rig.
- A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
- (animation) One whose occupation is to outfit a computer model with controls for animation.
- One whose occupation is to lift and move large and heavy objects (such as industrial machinery) with the help of cables, hoists, and other equipment.
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- (nautical) A sailor on such a vessel.
- (slang, used by the traveller community) A non-traveller.
- A person who produces (e.g., digs, mines, gathers) or sells coal (the fossil fuel type), or transports it from underground, from the soil, or from a seashore.
- (nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
- someone who works in a coal mine
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- spar under the bowsprit of a sailboat
- a harness strap that connects the nose piece to the girth; prevents the horse from throwing back its head
- (mathematics) A stochastic process for which the conditional expectation of future values given the sequence of all prior values is equal to the current value.
- A piece of harness used on a horse to keep it from raising its head above a desired point.
- (nautical) A spar, or piece of rigging that strengthens the bowsprit.
- A gambling strategy in which one doubles the stake after each loss.
- (fencing) A strap attached to the sword handle, preventing a sword being dropped if disarmed.
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- (nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
- (television) A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
- An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
- (Maine) An active child.
- (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
- (MLE) A knife.
- (informal) A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
- A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
- A foretooth; an incisor.
- A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose
- (wrestling) A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.
- (medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon.
- (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
- (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
- (intactivism, derogatory) A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.
- A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
- (baseball) A cut fastball.
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- someone who carves the meat
- a cutting implement; a tool for cutting
- someone who cuts or carves stone
- someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)
- a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop
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- (nautical, of a vessel) Aground.
- (aviation, of an airman or aircraft) Not allowed to fly.
- (electricity, Canada, US) Of or pertaining to an electrical conductor which is connected to earth; earthed.
- (of a person, predicative) Confined to stay inside, typically by a parent, as a punishment.
- (of a person) With well-considered priorities through a good understanding of what truly matters.
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- A pirate ship.
- (archery, usually in the plural) A randomly selected target.
- (American football) A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a hybrid of those of a cornerback, safety and linebacker.
- One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.
- A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.
- A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
- A pirate.
- A remotely-operated vehicle.
- (baseball) The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball.
- (croquet) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
- (Australian Rules football) A position that is one of three of a team's followers, who follow the ball around the ground. Formerly a position for short players, rovers in professional leagues are frequently over 183 cm (6').
- someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
- an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement
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- The waterline of a ship.
- The level of a body of water, especially when measured above a datum line.
- (also attributive) (Relating to) an instrument to show the level by means of the surface of water in a trough, or in upright tubes connected by a pipe.
- The level of the water table below ground.
- (attributive) Of a route that follows a riverbank or shoreline.
- underground surface below which the ground is wholly saturated with water
- a line corresponding to the surface of the water when the vessel is afloat on an even keel; often painted on the hull of a ship
- the level of the surface of a body of water
- a water gauge that shows the level by showing the surface of the water in a trough or U-shaped tube
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- sailing vessel used in former times
- a large beer glass
- (historical) A covered wagon used by emigrants.
- (US) A large goblet or drinking glass, used for lager or ale (Wikipedia).
- (nautical) A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.
- (Australia) A glass of beer, of a size which varies between states (Wikipedia).
- (UK) A glass for drinking a large measure of sherry.
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- (naval) A surface ship.
- Synonym of water strider.
- A loose-fitting one-piece dress, similar to a shift but with slightly more fitting.
- Any of three species of bird, in the genus Rynchops of the family Laridae, that feed by skimming the surface of water bodies with their bills in flight.
- A sieve-like, slotted spoon.
- A ballet flat shoe.
- Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clam (Spisula solidissima) and large scallops.
- (naval) A sailor in the surface forces, as opposed to a submariner.
- (science fiction) A small, fast-moving spacecraft.
- (entomology) Any of the dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.
- A person who skims.
- A device for removing organic matter from an aquarium.
- (crime) A device used to read and record the magnetic code from a credit card for later fraudulent use.
- a rapid superficial reader
- gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food
- a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
- a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids
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- a fast sailing ship used in former times
- shears for cutting grass or shrubbery
- scissors for cutting hair or finger nails
- (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform)
- (entomology) An Asian butterfly of species Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
- (slang) A confidence trickster; a conman.
- Anything or anyone that clips.
- (electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
- (chiefly in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
- (historical) A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
- (informal) An Alberta clipper.
- (nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
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- (nautical) To tack, cruise about.
- (intransitive, especially UK) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
- (transitive, Northern England, Scotland) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
- (Northern England, Scotland) To go; to direct one's course.
- play music in a public place and solicit money for it
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- (rowing) A boat for two sweep rowers.
- (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
- (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.
- (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
- (slang) A pair of testicles.
- Two alike or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
- Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
- One of the constituent items that make up a pair.
- (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
- Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
- Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts).
- (slang) A pair of breasts.
- (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
- A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
- (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
- two people considered as a unit
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value
- two items of the same kind
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- (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
- (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
- (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
- (computing) to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth.
- (transitive) To group into one or more sets of two.
- (intransitive) To come together for mating.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- arrange in pairs
- form a pair or pairs
- occur in pairs
- engage in sexual intercourse
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- (nautical) A padrone.
- (historical, Roman law) A protector of a dependent, especially a master who had freed a slave but still retained some paternal rights.
- A guardian or intercessor; synonym of patron saint.
- (UK, ecclesiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
- A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
- An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
- One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.
- the proprietor of an inn
- a regular customer
- someone who supports or champions something
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- A ferryboat.
- (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
- (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
- (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- (figuratively) The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
- (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house or the rear storeroom of a retail store.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
- (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- (printing) The inside margin of a page.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
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- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- At or near the rear.
- Not current.
- (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
- located at or near the back of an animal
- of an earlier date
- related to or located at the back
adv
- In a manner that impedes.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
- (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- in or to or toward a former location
- in reply
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in repayment or retaliation
- in or to or toward a past time
- in or to or toward an original condition
verb
- (transitive) To push or force backwards.
- (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- (transitive) To support.
- (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out).
- (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
- (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To row backward with (oars).
- (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one’s back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- be in back of
- travel backward
- establish as valid or genuine
- place a bet on
- give support or one's approval to
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- support financial backing for
- be behind; approve of
- cause to travel backward
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- (nautical) A tugboat.
- (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
- (UK, slang) A foundationer or colleger at Eton.
- (slang) An act of male masturbation.
- A type of tractor used for moving trailers.
- A sudden powerful pull.
- A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
- A dog toy consisting of a rope, often with a knot in it.
- a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships
- a sudden abrupt pull
verb
- (transitive) To pull hard repeatedly.
- (transitive) To pull or drag with great effort.
- (slang, ambitransitive) To masturbate.
- (transitive) To tow by tugboat.
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- move by pulling hard
- struggle in opposition
- pull or strain hard at
- tow (a vessel) with a tug
- carry with difficulty
- pull hard
noun
- a sailing vessel with a specified rig
- a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists
- someone who rigs ships
- someone who works on an oil rig
- One who rigs or manipulates (an election, etc).
- One whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship or of a counterweight system.
- (paraskiing) Ellipsis of outrigger.
- (BDSM) A person who applies functional or artistic rope bondage to another person's body.
- (in combination) A ship with a certain type of rigging.
- (New Zealand) A plastic bottle of beer, typically between 1 L to 2.5 L volume.
- A long, slender, pointed sable paintbrush for making fine lines, etc.; said to be so called from its use for drawing the lines of the rigging of ships.
- A part of a rowing boat's equipment used to provide leverage for a rowing blade or oar around a fixed fulcrum.
- A worker on an oil rig.
- A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
- (animation) One whose occupation is to outfit a computer model with controls for animation.
- One whose occupation is to lift and move large and heavy objects (such as industrial machinery) with the help of cables, hoists, and other equipment.
noun
- (nautical) A sailor on such a vessel.
- (slang, used by the traveller community) A non-traveller.
- A person who produces (e.g., digs, mines, gathers) or sells coal (the fossil fuel type), or transports it from underground, from the soil, or from a seashore.
- (nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
- someone who works in a coal mine
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- spar under the bowsprit of a sailboat
- a harness strap that connects the nose piece to the girth; prevents the horse from throwing back its head
- (mathematics) A stochastic process for which the conditional expectation of future values given the sequence of all prior values is equal to the current value.
- A piece of harness used on a horse to keep it from raising its head above a desired point.
- (nautical) A spar, or piece of rigging that strengthens the bowsprit.
- A gambling strategy in which one doubles the stake after each loss.
- (fencing) A strap attached to the sword handle, preventing a sword being dropped if disarmed.
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- (nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
- (television) A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
- An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
- (Maine) An active child.
- (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
- (MLE) A knife.
- (informal) A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
- A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
- A foretooth; an incisor.
- A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose
- (wrestling) A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.
- (medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon.
- (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
- (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
- (intactivism, derogatory) A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.
- A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
- (baseball) A cut fastball.
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- someone who carves the meat
- a cutting implement; a tool for cutting
- someone who cuts or carves stone
- someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)
- a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop
noun
- A pirate ship.
- (archery, usually in the plural) A randomly selected target.
- (American football) A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a hybrid of those of a cornerback, safety and linebacker.
- One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.
- A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.
- A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
- A pirate.
- A remotely-operated vehicle.
- (baseball) The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball.
- (croquet) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
- (Australian Rules football) A position that is one of three of a team's followers, who follow the ball around the ground. Formerly a position for short players, rovers in professional leagues are frequently over 183 cm (6').
- someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
- an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement
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- The waterline of a ship.
- The level of a body of water, especially when measured above a datum line.
- (also attributive) (Relating to) an instrument to show the level by means of the surface of water in a trough, or in upright tubes connected by a pipe.
- The level of the water table below ground.
- (attributive) Of a route that follows a riverbank or shoreline.
- underground surface below which the ground is wholly saturated with water
- a line corresponding to the surface of the water when the vessel is afloat on an even keel; often painted on the hull of a ship
- the level of the surface of a body of water
- a water gauge that shows the level by showing the surface of the water in a trough or U-shaped tube
noun
- sailing vessel used in former times
- a large beer glass
- (historical) A covered wagon used by emigrants.
- (US) A large goblet or drinking glass, used for lager or ale (Wikipedia).
- (nautical) A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.
- (Australia) A glass of beer, of a size which varies between states (Wikipedia).
- (UK) A glass for drinking a large measure of sherry.
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- (naval) A surface ship.
- Synonym of water strider.
- A loose-fitting one-piece dress, similar to a shift but with slightly more fitting.
- Any of three species of bird, in the genus Rynchops of the family Laridae, that feed by skimming the surface of water bodies with their bills in flight.
- A sieve-like, slotted spoon.
- A ballet flat shoe.
- Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clam (Spisula solidissima) and large scallops.
- (naval) A sailor in the surface forces, as opposed to a submariner.
- (science fiction) A small, fast-moving spacecraft.
- (entomology) Any of the dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.
- A person who skims.
- A device for removing organic matter from an aquarium.
- (crime) A device used to read and record the magnetic code from a credit card for later fraudulent use.
- a rapid superficial reader
- gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food
- a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
- a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids
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- a fast sailing ship used in former times
- shears for cutting grass or shrubbery
- scissors for cutting hair or finger nails
- (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform)
- (entomology) An Asian butterfly of species Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
- (slang) A confidence trickster; a conman.
- Anything or anyone that clips.
- (electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
- (chiefly in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
- (historical) A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
- (informal) An Alberta clipper.
- (nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
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- (rowing) A boat for two sweep rowers.
- (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
- (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.
- (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
- (slang) A pair of testicles.
- Two alike or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
- Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
- One of the constituent items that make up a pair.
- (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
- Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
- Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts).
- (slang) A pair of breasts.
- (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
- A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
- (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
- two people considered as a unit
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value
- two items of the same kind
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- (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
- (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
- (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
- (computing) to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth.
- (transitive) To group into one or more sets of two.
- (intransitive) To come together for mating.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- arrange in pairs
- form a pair or pairs
- occur in pairs
- engage in sexual intercourse
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- (nautical) A padrone.
- (historical, Roman law) A protector of a dependent, especially a master who had freed a slave but still retained some paternal rights.
- A guardian or intercessor; synonym of patron saint.
- (UK, ecclesiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
- A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
- An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
- One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.
- the proprietor of an inn
- a regular customer
- someone who supports or champions something
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- (nautical) To tack, cruise about.
- (intransitive, especially UK) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
- (transitive, Northern England, Scotland) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
- (Northern England, Scotland) To go; to direct one's course.
- play music in a public place and solicit money for it
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- (nautical, of a vessel) Aground.
- (aviation, of an airman or aircraft) Not allowed to fly.
- (electricity, Canada, US) Of or pertaining to an electrical conductor which is connected to earth; earthed.
- (of a person, predicative) Confined to stay inside, typically by a parent, as a punishment.
- (of a person) With well-considered priorities through a good understanding of what truly matters.