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noun
- a machine that trims timber
- capacitor having variable capacitance; used for making fine adjustments
- joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc.
- a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs
- One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
- Someone who fluctuates between opposing factions, political parties etc., according to current interest, a flip-flopper.
- (nautical) A member of the crew who trims the sails.
- (mining, historical) A device for storing coal in gradually increasing piles made by building up at the point of the cone or top of the prism.
- (fishing) A float bearing a baited hook and line, used in fishing for pike.
- (architecture) A beam into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys.
- (electronics) An adjustable electrical component.
- A device used to trim.
- (cricket) A fast, high-quality delivery by the bowler, especially one that results in a dismissal of a batter by removing the bails without hitting the stumps.
- (shipping, historical) A person employed to rearrange the coal in the hold of a vessel, so that it fills the vessel without forming a conical blockage.
adj
noun
- (engineering) a vehicle for pulling trees out of a forest.
- One who moves something by the use of a skid.
- The foreman of a construction gang making a skid road.
- One who travels with a skidding motion.
- a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction
- a tractor used to haul logs over rough terrain
- a worker who uses a skid to move logs
noun
- A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.
- A headscarf.
- A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
- A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
- (Scotland) A cormorant.
- A type of joint in woodworking, formed by two shaped ends that fit into or onto each other.
- a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end
- a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration
verb
- To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
- To cover as or like a scarf.
- (transitive, US, slang) To eat very quickly.
- To shape by grinding or oxyfuel torch cutting.
- To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
- To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
- To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
- unite by a scarf joint
- wrap in or adorn with a scarf
- masturbate while strangling oneself
noun
- A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
- (informal) A dismissal or rejection.
- An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
- (finance) A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
- (slang, music) A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
- (figurative) A drastic reduction or cutback.
- an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
verb
noun
- Alternative form of treecreeper.
- any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
- any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers
noun
- A treecreeper.
- Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
- Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.
- A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
- A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
- A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
- (derogatory, slang) A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
- Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
- (often in the plural) A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
- A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon one may lie on one's back and gain better access to the roof of a space with very low height (such as the underbody of a vehicle), or a low stool similarly wheeled.
- Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
- A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
- The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.
- (nautical) A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
- An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
- A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
- (cricket) A ball that travels low, near ground level.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
- any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
noun
- A machine used to remove unneeded bark from wood.
- (video games) A video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game.
- (historical) A person who removes needed or valuable tree bark, as on a cinnamon or cinchona plantation.
- Someone or something who barks.
- The spotted redshank.
- A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival.
- A shelf-talker.
- someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers
- informal terms for dogs
intj
noun
- Material for any structure.
- (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
- (outside Canada, US, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
- (countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.
- (cricket, slang) The stumps.
- (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
- a beam made of wood
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- a post made of wood
- the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
- land that is covered with trees and shrubs
verb
noun
- (forestry) A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees; an instance of this type.
- A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
- (computing) A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
- A North American butterfly species, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America; an individual of this species.
- (Ireland) A finnock (a young sea trout).
- Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.
- farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields
- someone who helps to gather the harvest
noun
- the act of felling something (as a tree)
- A cutting-down of timber.
- the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
- seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges
- (mining) The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
- (textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
- (archaic outside Northern England, Scotland) A wild field or upland moor.
- (geography) High and barren landscape feature such as a mountain range or mountain terrain above the tree line.
- The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
- (archaic outside Northern England, Scotland) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains, particularly in the British Isles or Fennoscandia.
adj
verb
- pass away rapidly
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- sew a seam by folding the edges
- (transitive) To strike down, kill, destroy.
- simple past of fall
- (sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
- (now colloquial) past participle of fall
- (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
adv
noun
- A tool for lopping superfluous branches from a tree.
- (UK, dialect) A turnip.
- (chiefly Ireland, UK) A person who reviews newly built properties to find issues to be remedied before the client buying the home moves in; someone who produces a snag list.
- (fishing) A fishing hook consisting of several hooks radiating from a centre.
- (Australia, shearing) The slowest shearer in the shearing shed; an inexpert or poor shearer.
- A person who works on a snag-boat clearing away obstacles in the river.
noun
- The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.
- a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall
- The underside of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
- (moldmaking) A section of a mold or pattern with negative draft angle
- The continuation of the saddle of a rabbit's coat toward the front legs.
- A hairstyle that is shaved or clipped short on the sides and kept long on the top.
- (motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone by pitting before them and using fresh tyres to make up time.
- A cut made in the lower part of something; the material so removed.
- A blow dealt upward.
- a cut made underneath to remove material
- the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- the material removed by a cut made underneath
adj
verb
- To downplay or minimize.
- (motor racing) To employ the undercut strategy.
- To sell (something) at a lower price, or to work for lower wages, than a competitor.
- To undermine.
- To create an overhang by cutting away material from underneath.
- To strike a heavy blow upward.
- cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief
- strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot
- cut away the underpart of
- sell cheaper than one's competition
- cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall
noun
- a logger who marks trees to be felled
- an official who records the score during the progress of a game
- a player who makes a score in a game or contest
- (cricket) Either of a pair of people, one provided by each side, who record in a specially formatted book, every ball bowled, every run scored, and every wicket that falls
- One who scores.
- One who keeps track of scores in a game; a scorekeeper.
noun
- the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
- (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket
- the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed
- a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
- (cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
- (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
- (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
- (slang, humorous) A leg.
verb
- cause to be perplexed or confounded
- travel through a district and make political speeches
- remove tree stumps from
- walk heavily
- (intransitive) To campaign.
- (transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
- (transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
- (transitive, informal) To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
- (transitive, cricket) To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- (transitive, US, colloquial) To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- (intransitive, informal) To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
noun
- (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash; the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
- (vulgar, slang) The vulva.
- (Scotland) A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
- (botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
- A deep cut or laceration, as made by an edged weapon or whip.
- (fashion) A slit in an outer garment, usually exposing a lining or inner garment of a contrasting color or design.
- A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.
- (eastern US, uncommon) A slash pine, which grows in such (swampy) areas.
- (eastern US) A swampy area; a swamp.
- (idiomatic, by extension) The conjunctions and or also (during a conversation).
- (UK) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.
- (UK, slang, vulgar, rare) Piss; urine.
- (originally US, typography) The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.
- (UK, slang, vulgar) A piss: an act of urination.
- (sports) A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick.
- (figuratively) A sharp reduction in resources allotted.
- (US and Canada) A clearing in a forest, particularly one made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
- (often proscribed) Any similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
- (fandom slang) Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.
- an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
- a wound made by cutting
- a punctuation mark (‘/’) used to separate related items of information
- a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
adv
conj
verb
- (Scotland, intransitive) To work in wet conditions.
- To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
- (fashion) To create slashes in a garment.
- (ice hockey) To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- (cricket) To swing wildly at the ball.
- To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
- (figuratively) To reduce sharply.
- To strike violently and randomly, particularly:
- (intransitive, UK, slang) To piss, to urinate.
- (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.
- (US, Canada) To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
- To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
- (figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.
- To move quickly and violently.
- move or stir about violently
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- cut open
- cut drastically
- cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
noun
- (forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
- The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
- The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
- The liquid used in this process.
- A washing.
- The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
verb
verb
- To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
- To add alcohol or a drug into a drink, especially if covertly.
- To add a small amount of one substance to another.
- To increase sharply.
- (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- (slang) To inject a drug with a syringe.
- (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
- (figurative, journalism) To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
- To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
- To set or furnish with spikes.
- To fix on a spike.
- (American football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
- secure with spikes
- stand in the way of
- manifest a sharp increase
- bring forth a spike or spikes
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- pierce with a sharp stake or point
noun
- (slang, historical) The casual ward of a workhouse.
- (theater) A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
- (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
- (Anglicanism) An excessively high church Anglican.
- A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
- A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
- (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
- (software engineering, XP) A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
- (zoology) An adolescent male deer.
- (music, lutherie) Synonym of endpin.
- A sort of very large nail.
- (virology) a structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells.
- A sharp peak in a graph.
- An ear of corn or grain.
- Spike lavender.
- (informal, chiefly in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
- (by extension) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
- a very high narrow heel on women's shoes
- sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes
- a large stout nail
- any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object
- a transient variation in voltage or current
- a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves)
- a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur)
- (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
- a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal)
noun
- A jumble of felled timber.
- (forestry) A concentration of surface wood or fuel.
- A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
- (pinball) A large accumulated point bonus, originally awarded after a long set of actions but now often easily available in multiball modes.
- A large cash prize or money.
- (Western US) A difficult situation.
- An unexpected windfall or reward.
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- any outstanding award
name
verb
noun
- (forestry) A tree which splits vertically while being felled, causing part of the tree to remain upright while the remainder of the tree falls.
- An articulating chair used in barbershops and salons to facilitate hair-cutting and styling or face-shaving.
- a large fixed adjustable chair in which barbers seat their customers
verb
noun
verb
- (logging, slang) To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
- To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
- (backgammon) After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- To work hard.
- (slang) To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
- work hard on something
noun
- (countable, backgammon) A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- Butter.
- Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”).
- Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”).
- A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
- (chiefly Canada, US, slang, countable) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
- (Canada, US) Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
- (US, offensive, slang) A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
- (countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
- (countable, slang) A beard or a bearded person.
- (countable) A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- The fur of the beaver.
- (uncountable, historical, slang) A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
- a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face
- the soft brown fur of the beaver
- a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)
- a full beard
- large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges
- a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
noun
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- (physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- (countable, music) A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- (countable, informal) A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- (uncountable, music) Witch house music.
- (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
- (historical) A mailcoach.
- (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- (informal, uncommon) Clipping of dragon.
- (countable, slang) A street.
- (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- (uncountable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- (billiards) A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- (countable, slang) A drag king or drag queen.
- (countable, slang) A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- (slang) A prison sentence of three months.
- (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- (by analogy with above) Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- (countable, slang) A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- (uncountable, slang, by analogy) Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- something tedious and boring
- the act of dragging (pulling with force)
- clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- something that slows or delays progress
- the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
verb
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- (figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
- (chiefly of a vehicle) To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- (informal, intransitive) To inhale from a cigarette, cigar, etc.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To proceed heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- (informal, intransitive) To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- (intransitive, music) To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To fish with a dragnet.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- (graphical user interface) To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- to lag or linger behind
- suck in or take (air)
- move slowly and as if with great effort
- use an input device to move objects on the screen, or to select items (such as commands from a menu); drag the slider to increase or decrease rate; drag the handles on the image to resize it
- proceed for an extended period of time
- persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
- pull, as against a resistance
- search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
- draw slowly or heavily
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- walk without lifting the feet
noun
- a machine used for picking hops
- (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
- terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
- someone who hops
- funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
- A grasshopper or locust, especially:
- A bin or device that feeds material into a machine.
- One who or that which hops.
- A Sri Lankan pancake made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.
- A hopper car.
- An artificial fishing lure.
- A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- (music) An escapement lever in a piano.
- (slang) A toilet.
- A leafhopper.
- A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
- A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.
- A person or machine that picks hops.
- The immature form of a locust.
- The larva of a cheese fly.
noun
- An instrument for cutting the surface of grassland; a scarifier.
- A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.
- A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door.
- Alternative form of hesp (“measure of linen thread”).
- a fastener for a door or lid; a hinged metal plate is fitted over a staple and is locked with a pin or padlock
verb
noun
- An area of forest where harvesting of wood is planned or has taken place.
- An ice cream dessert served in a coupe glass.
- A shallow glass or glass dish, usually with a stem, in which sparkling wine or desserts are served.
- (US, Canada, automotive) A car with two doors and a nonconvertible roof. (variant of coupé)
- A two-seater car, normally a sports car. (variant of coupé)
- a car with two doors and front seats and a luggage compartment
noun
- The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
- A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
- That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference.
- A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
- The clitellum of an earthworm.
- (Scotland, Northern English) Alternative form of griddle.
- The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
- (mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
- a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers
- a woman's close-fitting foundation garment
- an encircling or ringlike structure
verb
noun
- a machine that trims timber
- capacitor having variable capacitance; used for making fine adjustments
- joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc.
- a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs
- One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
- Someone who fluctuates between opposing factions, political parties etc., according to current interest, a flip-flopper.
- (nautical) A member of the crew who trims the sails.
- (mining, historical) A device for storing coal in gradually increasing piles made by building up at the point of the cone or top of the prism.
- (fishing) A float bearing a baited hook and line, used in fishing for pike.
- (architecture) A beam into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys.
- (electronics) An adjustable electrical component.
- A device used to trim.
- (cricket) A fast, high-quality delivery by the bowler, especially one that results in a dismissal of a batter by removing the bails without hitting the stumps.
- (shipping, historical) A person employed to rearrange the coal in the hold of a vessel, so that it fills the vessel without forming a conical blockage.
adj
noun
- (engineering) a vehicle for pulling trees out of a forest.
- One who moves something by the use of a skid.
- The foreman of a construction gang making a skid road.
- One who travels with a skidding motion.
- a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction
- a tractor used to haul logs over rough terrain
- a worker who uses a skid to move logs
noun
- A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.
- A headscarf.
- A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
- A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
- (Scotland) A cormorant.
- A type of joint in woodworking, formed by two shaped ends that fit into or onto each other.
- a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end
- a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration
verb
- To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
- To cover as or like a scarf.
- (transitive, US, slang) To eat very quickly.
- To shape by grinding or oxyfuel torch cutting.
- To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
- To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
- To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
- unite by a scarf joint
- wrap in or adorn with a scarf
- masturbate while strangling oneself
noun
- A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
- (informal) A dismissal or rejection.
- An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
- (finance) A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
- (slang, music) A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
- (figurative) A drastic reduction or cutback.
- an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
verb
noun
- Alternative form of treecreeper.
- any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
- any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers
noun
- A treecreeper.
- Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
- Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.
- A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
- A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
- A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
- (derogatory, slang) A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
- Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
- (often in the plural) A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
- A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon one may lie on one's back and gain better access to the roof of a space with very low height (such as the underbody of a vehicle), or a low stool similarly wheeled.
- Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
- A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
- The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.
- (nautical) A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
- An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
- A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
- (cricket) A ball that travels low, near ground level.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
- any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
noun
- A machine used to remove unneeded bark from wood.
- (video games) A video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game.
- (historical) A person who removes needed or valuable tree bark, as on a cinnamon or cinchona plantation.
- Someone or something who barks.
- The spotted redshank.
- A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival.
- A shelf-talker.
- someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers
- informal terms for dogs
noun
- (forestry) A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees; an instance of this type.
- A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
- (computing) A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
- A North American butterfly species, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America; an individual of this species.
- (Ireland) A finnock (a young sea trout).
- Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.
- farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields
- someone who helps to gather the harvest
noun
- the act of felling something (as a tree)
- A cutting-down of timber.
- the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
- seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges
- (mining) The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
- (textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
- (archaic outside Northern England, Scotland) A wild field or upland moor.
- (geography) High and barren landscape feature such as a mountain range or mountain terrain above the tree line.
- The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
- (archaic outside Northern England, Scotland) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains, particularly in the British Isles or Fennoscandia.
adj
verb
- pass away rapidly
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- sew a seam by folding the edges
- (transitive) To strike down, kill, destroy.
- simple past of fall
- (sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
- (now colloquial) past participle of fall
- (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
adv
noun
- A tool for lopping superfluous branches from a tree.
- (UK, dialect) A turnip.
- (chiefly Ireland, UK) A person who reviews newly built properties to find issues to be remedied before the client buying the home moves in; someone who produces a snag list.
- (fishing) A fishing hook consisting of several hooks radiating from a centre.
- (Australia, shearing) The slowest shearer in the shearing shed; an inexpert or poor shearer.
- A person who works on a snag-boat clearing away obstacles in the river.
noun
- The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.
- a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall
- The underside of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
- (moldmaking) A section of a mold or pattern with negative draft angle
- The continuation of the saddle of a rabbit's coat toward the front legs.
- A hairstyle that is shaved or clipped short on the sides and kept long on the top.
- (motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone by pitting before them and using fresh tyres to make up time.
- A cut made in the lower part of something; the material so removed.
- A blow dealt upward.
- a cut made underneath to remove material
- the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- the material removed by a cut made underneath
adj
verb
- To downplay or minimize.
- (motor racing) To employ the undercut strategy.
- To sell (something) at a lower price, or to work for lower wages, than a competitor.
- To undermine.
- To create an overhang by cutting away material from underneath.
- To strike a heavy blow upward.
- cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief
- strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot
- cut away the underpart of
- sell cheaper than one's competition
- cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall
noun
- a logger who marks trees to be felled
- an official who records the score during the progress of a game
- a player who makes a score in a game or contest
- (cricket) Either of a pair of people, one provided by each side, who record in a specially formatted book, every ball bowled, every run scored, and every wicket that falls
- One who scores.
- One who keeps track of scores in a game; a scorekeeper.
noun
- the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
- (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket
- the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed
- a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
- (cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
- (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
- (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
- (slang, humorous) A leg.
verb
- cause to be perplexed or confounded
- travel through a district and make political speeches
- remove tree stumps from
- walk heavily
- (intransitive) To campaign.
- (transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
- (transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
- (transitive, informal) To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
- (transitive, cricket) To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- (transitive, US, colloquial) To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- (intransitive, informal) To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
noun
- (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash; the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
- (vulgar, slang) The vulva.
- (Scotland) A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
- (botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
- A deep cut or laceration, as made by an edged weapon or whip.
- (fashion) A slit in an outer garment, usually exposing a lining or inner garment of a contrasting color or design.
- A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.
- (eastern US, uncommon) A slash pine, which grows in such (swampy) areas.
- (eastern US) A swampy area; a swamp.
- (idiomatic, by extension) The conjunctions and or also (during a conversation).
- (UK) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.
- (UK, slang, vulgar, rare) Piss; urine.
- (originally US, typography) The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.
- (UK, slang, vulgar) A piss: an act of urination.
- (sports) A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick.
- (figuratively) A sharp reduction in resources allotted.
- (US and Canada) A clearing in a forest, particularly one made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
- (often proscribed) Any similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
- (fandom slang) Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.
- an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
- a wound made by cutting
- a punctuation mark (‘/’) used to separate related items of information
- a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
adv
conj
verb
- (Scotland, intransitive) To work in wet conditions.
- To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
- (fashion) To create slashes in a garment.
- (ice hockey) To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- (cricket) To swing wildly at the ball.
- To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
- (figuratively) To reduce sharply.
- To strike violently and randomly, particularly:
- (intransitive, UK, slang) To piss, to urinate.
- (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.
- (US, Canada) To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
- To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
- (figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.
- To move quickly and violently.
- move or stir about violently
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- cut open
- cut drastically
- cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
noun
- (forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
- The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
- The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
- The liquid used in this process.
- A washing.
- The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
verb
noun
- A jumble of felled timber.
- (forestry) A concentration of surface wood or fuel.
- A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
- (pinball) A large accumulated point bonus, originally awarded after a long set of actions but now often easily available in multiball modes.
- A large cash prize or money.
- (Western US) A difficult situation.
- An unexpected windfall or reward.
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- any outstanding award
name
verb
noun
- (forestry) A tree which splits vertically while being felled, causing part of the tree to remain upright while the remainder of the tree falls.
- An articulating chair used in barbershops and salons to facilitate hair-cutting and styling or face-shaving.
- a large fixed adjustable chair in which barbers seat their customers
verb
noun
noun
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- (physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- (countable, music) A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- (countable, informal) A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- (uncountable, music) Witch house music.
- (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
- (historical) A mailcoach.
- (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- (informal, uncommon) Clipping of dragon.
- (countable, slang) A street.
- (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- (uncountable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- (billiards) A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- (countable, slang) A drag king or drag queen.
- (countable, slang) A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- (slang) A prison sentence of three months.
- (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- (by analogy with above) Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- (countable, slang) A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- (uncountable, slang, by analogy) Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- something tedious and boring
- the act of dragging (pulling with force)
- clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- something that slows or delays progress
- the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
verb
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- (figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
- (chiefly of a vehicle) To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- (informal, intransitive) To inhale from a cigarette, cigar, etc.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To proceed heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- (informal, intransitive) To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- (intransitive, music) To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To fish with a dragnet.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- (graphical user interface) To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- to lag or linger behind
- suck in or take (air)
- move slowly and as if with great effort
- use an input device to move objects on the screen, or to select items (such as commands from a menu); drag the slider to increase or decrease rate; drag the handles on the image to resize it
- proceed for an extended period of time
- persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
- pull, as against a resistance
- search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
- draw slowly or heavily
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- walk without lifting the feet
noun
- a machine used for picking hops
- (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
- terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
- someone who hops
- funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
- A grasshopper or locust, especially:
- A bin or device that feeds material into a machine.
- One who or that which hops.
- A Sri Lankan pancake made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.
- A hopper car.
- An artificial fishing lure.
- A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- (music) An escapement lever in a piano.
- (slang) A toilet.
- A leafhopper.
- A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
- A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.
- A person or machine that picks hops.
- The immature form of a locust.
- The larva of a cheese fly.
noun
- An instrument for cutting the surface of grassland; a scarifier.
- A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.
- A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door.
- Alternative form of hesp (“measure of linen thread”).
- a fastener for a door or lid; a hinged metal plate is fitted over a staple and is locked with a pin or padlock
verb
noun
- An area of forest where harvesting of wood is planned or has taken place.
- An ice cream dessert served in a coupe glass.
- A shallow glass or glass dish, usually with a stem, in which sparkling wine or desserts are served.
- (US, Canada, automotive) A car with two doors and a nonconvertible roof. (variant of coupé)
- A two-seater car, normally a sports car. (variant of coupé)
- a car with two doors and front seats and a luggage compartment
noun
- The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
- A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
- That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference.
- A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
- The clitellum of an earthworm.
- (Scotland, Northern English) Alternative form of griddle.
- The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
- (mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
- a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers
- a woman's close-fitting foundation garment
- an encircling or ringlike structure
verb
verb
- To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
- To add alcohol or a drug into a drink, especially if covertly.
- To add a small amount of one substance to another.
- To increase sharply.
- (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- (slang) To inject a drug with a syringe.
- (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
- (figurative, journalism) To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
- To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
- To set or furnish with spikes.
- To fix on a spike.
- (American football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
- secure with spikes
- stand in the way of
- manifest a sharp increase
- bring forth a spike or spikes
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- pierce with a sharp stake or point
noun
- (slang, historical) The casual ward of a workhouse.
- (theater) A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
- (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
- (Anglicanism) An excessively high church Anglican.
- A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
- A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
- (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
- (software engineering, XP) A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
- (zoology) An adolescent male deer.
- (music, lutherie) Synonym of endpin.
- A sort of very large nail.
- (virology) a structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells.
- A sharp peak in a graph.
- An ear of corn or grain.
- Spike lavender.
- (informal, chiefly in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
- (by extension) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
- a very high narrow heel on women's shoes
- sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes
- a large stout nail
- any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object
- a transient variation in voltage or current
- a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves)
- a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur)
- (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
- a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal)
verb
- (logging, slang) To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
- To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
- (backgammon) After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- To work hard.
- (slang) To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
- work hard on something
noun
- (countable, backgammon) A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- Butter.
- Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”).
- Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”).
- A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
- (chiefly Canada, US, slang, countable) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
- (Canada, US) Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
- (US, offensive, slang) A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
- (countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
- (countable, slang) A beard or a bearded person.
- (countable) A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- The fur of the beaver.
- (uncountable, historical, slang) A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
- a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face
- the soft brown fur of the beaver
- a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)
- a full beard
- large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges
- a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
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