English words for '(intransitive) To catch crayfish.'
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verb
noun
- (New England, Pennsylvania, Upper Midwestern US) A freshwater crustacean (family Cambaridae), sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.
- (Australia) A freshwater crayfish (family Parastacidae), such as the gilgie, marron, or yabby.
- (Singapore) The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family (Scyllaridae).
- (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) A rock lobster (family Palinuridae).
- Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
- warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
- large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
- small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
- tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
verb
noun
- (Quebec, Canada, slang, derogatory) An English-Canadian. Used in some corners of Quebec (including the Gaspé).
- (United States, especially Southern US, Louisiana and Texas, Midwest, Western US) Any of various freshwater crustaceans: crayfish.
- (South Africa) Any of various marine crustaceans, rock lobster; especially Jasus lalandii, the Cape crawfish.
- large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
- small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
- tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
verb
noun
- (Internet) Someone who creates a false profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
- The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.
- Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
- (Internet) Such a false profile.
- large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
- any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
- flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
verb
- (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
- (rare) To back out of something.
- (transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- (zoology, of sugar gliders) To make a loud, rapid rattling sound when scared, stressed, or agitated.
- (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
- (transitive) To complain about.
- (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- (intransitive) To complain.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- (transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
- scurry sideways like a crab
- complain
- fish for crab
- direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
noun
- (Singapore, military, slang) On an insignia, a coat of arms symbol representing a senior rank.
- (uncountable, aviation) Ellipsis of crab angle.
- (poker slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
- (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- (informal) Clipping of carabiner, modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- (uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- Any of various crustacean in the infraorder Anomura, usually excluding squat lobsters.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- (derogatory, Blood slang) A member of the Crips.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- A horseshoe crab.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A bad-tempered person.
- decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- a quarrelsome grouch
- the edible flesh of any of various crabs
- a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
- a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
verb
noun
- Food prepared from such fish, often deep fried and served as a starter or snack.
- The young of various species of fish, especially herrings, sprats or smelts
- minnows or other small fresh- or saltwater fish (especially herring); usually cooked whole
- the edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts
verb
- (intransitive) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
- (transitive, billiards) To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.
- (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.
- (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
- (figurative, informal, with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
- (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
- move or proceed at an angle
- seek indirectly
- present with a bias
- fish with a hook
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
noun
- A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
- A change in direction.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A corner where two walls intersect.
- (slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
- (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
- (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
- (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
- (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefiting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral.
- (media) The focus of a news story.
- A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
- A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
- a biased way of looking at or presenting something
- the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians
verb
- (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
- (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
- (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
- (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
- (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
- (stative, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
- penetrate or cut, as with a knife
- deliver a sting to
noun
- The act of biting.
- (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- (television) Ellipsis of sound bite.
- (slang) Something unpleasant.
- (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- (figuratively, uncountable) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
- A small meal or snack.
- (slang) An act of plagiarism.
- (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
- (cricket) The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- a strong odor or taste property
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a light informal meal
- a portion removed from the whole
- a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
- wit having a sharp and caustic quality
- the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
verb
- (transitive) To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.
- (intransitive) To fish with a concave spoon bait.
- Alternative form of spoom.
- (tennis, golf, croquet) To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
- To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.
- (transitive or intransitive, informal, of persons) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
- scoop up or take up with a spoon
- snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others
noun
- (slang) An oar.
- (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
- (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.
- An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
- A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
- (US, military) A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
- (slang) A metaphoric unit of finite physical and mental energy available for daily activities, especially in the context of living with chronic illness or disability.
- An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
- A South African shrub of the genus Spatalla.
- as much as a spoon will hold
- formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face
- a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
verb
noun
- (Australia, colloquial, derogatory) Synonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.
- (Australia, slang) A fool, an idiot.
- (Commonwealth) A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.
- Alternative form of porn.
- A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
- shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible
- any of various edible decapod crustaceans
noun
- (fishing) A fish that tends to take bait.
- (curling) A stone that barely touches the outside of the house.
- (slang) One who copies someone else's work, style or techniques, especially in hip-hop.
- Agent noun of bite; someone or something who bites or tends to bite.
- (in combination, computing) Something (a data unit, machine etc.) with a width of a specified amount of bits.
- (fiction) A zombie.
- someone who bites
verb
adj
noun
- (slang, historical) A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
- A slipper lobster (a crustacean of the family Scyllaridae).
- A squat lobster.
- A spiny lobster, also called the rock lobster, a crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.
- A crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a seafood.
- (slang) An Australian twenty-dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.
- any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
- flesh of a lobster
verb
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
- seek indirectly
- (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (transitive) To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
noun
- any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- the flesh of fish used as food
- A period of time spent fishing.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- A cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes).
- (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- An instance of seeking something.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- A placoderm (paraphyletic class †Placodermi).
- A jawless fish (paraphyletic infraphylum Agnatha).
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A bony fish (clade Osteichthyes), including tetrapods.
- (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A spiny shark (paraphyletic class †Acanthodii)
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
verb
- (intransitive) To catch or fish with a gig or fizgig.
- (music) To play (a musical instrument) at a gig.
- (transitive) To make a joke, often condescendingly, at the expense of (someone); to make fun of.
- (intransitive) Sometimes followed by it: to ride in a gig (“a two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse”).
- (by extension) To work at any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
- (US, military) To impose a demerit (on someone) for an infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
- (transitive) To spear (fish, etc.) with a gig or fizgig.
- (film, music, television, theater) To engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.
noun
- Originally (music), a performing engagement by a musician or musical group; (by extension, film, television, theater) a job or role for a performer.
- A small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.
- (fishing) Synonym of fishgig or fizgig (“a spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals”).
- (slang, chiefly sciences) Any unit of measurement having the SI prefix giga-.
- (Southern England, by extension) A similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; specifically, a six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
- (informal, computing) Clipping of gigabyte (“one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes”).
- (road transport, historical) A two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.
- (US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
- (by extension) Any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
- tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain
- a booking for musicians
- small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood
- a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting
- an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
verb
- (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
- (intransitive) To get pregnant.
- (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
- (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- (transitive) To grip or entangle.
- (transitive) To travel by means of.
- (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- (transitive) To be hit by something.
- (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
- (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- (transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to.
- (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
- (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To notice.
- (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- (transitive) To charm or entrance.
- (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence.
- (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- reach in time
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- to hook or entangle
- suffer from the receipt of
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- attract; cause to be enamored
- perceive by hearing
- be struck or affected by
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- come down with
- be the catcher
- attract and fix
- detect a blunder or misstep
- start burning
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- become aware of
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- check oneself during an action
- spread or be communicated
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- see or watch
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- take in and retain
noun
- (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
- (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
- (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
- (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
- (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
- (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- the quantity that was caught
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
noun
verb
noun
- Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
- A conger eel, also called the Congo eel, amphiuma, and Congo snake (any salamander of the genus Amphiuma).
- A two-legged eel, also called the mud eel and lesser siren, Siren intermedia.
- A European eel (Anguilla anguilla).
- Someone or something that is sneaky and/or hard to catch.
- A vinegar eel, a roundworm of species Turbatrix aceti.
- An electric eel (any knifefish of the genus Electrophorus)
- A rubber eel, Typhlonectes natans.
- An earthworm eel, also called the spineless eel (any fish in the family Chaudhuriidae).
- A deep-sea spiny eel (any fish in the family Notacanthidae).
- A leopard eel, also called the leopard siren and reticulated siren, Siren reticulata.
- A swamp eel (any fish in the family Synbranchidae).
- A spiny eel (any fish in the family Mastacembelidae).
- voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
- the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
- (slang, uncommon) Synonym of butterface
- Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
- (slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.
- (slang, derogatory) A small penis.
- disparaging terms for small people
- any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
verb
adj
noun
- A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
- (figurative) Something at one's disposal.
- (UK, slang) Ellipsis of Oyster card.
- (colloquial, by analogy) A person who keeps secrets.
- Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.
- (UK, slang) A shoplifter.
- The delicate oyster-shaped morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
- a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl
- marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters
- edible body of any of numerous oysters
verb
noun
- A velvet smoothing brush.
- (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
- (music) Alternative form of lur.
- (also figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
- (falconry) A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
- qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward
- anything that serves as an enticement
- something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
verb
noun
verb
noun
- Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
- (British, derogatory) An objectionable elderly woman.
- any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons
- flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
noun
- (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth or another solid celestial body.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.
- (philately) A cancellation postmark.
- (printing, historical) An imperfect matrix for type.
- (military, by extension) An attack, not necessarily physical.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The strike plate of a door.
- (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
- a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
- a conspicuous success
- (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders
- a gentle blow
- an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective
verb
- (transitive) To make and ratify; to reach; to find.
- (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- (transitive) To create an impression.
- (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- (transitive) To hit.
- (transitive, figurative) To impinge upon.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- (sports) To score a goal.
- (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- (intransitive, by extension) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
- (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
- (transitive, finance) To balance (a ledger or account).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- (transitive) To impress, seem or appear to (a person).
- (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To infest the flesh of a living vertebrate.
- (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- (transitive, fishing) To hook (a fish) by a quick turn of the wrist.
- deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing
- hook by a pull on the line
- drive something violently into a location
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- pierce with force
- cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- find unexpectedly
- smooth with a strickle
- disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set
- occupy or take on
- stop work in order to press demands
- produce by ignition or a blow
- indicate (a certain time) by striking
- attain
verb
noun
- (Christianity) The Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
- (fishing) A tackle rig with a heavy sinker at the end of the line, and one or more hooks on traces at right angles spaced above the sinker.
- (architecture, millwork) A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
- A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
- a type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in an endless loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor
verb
noun
- A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
- A net or dragnet used for trawling.
- An exhaustive search.
- a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
- a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
noun
- A fish, the cunner.
- (historical) A boy working as a navvies' assistant.
- (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
- The claws of a crab or lobster.
- (Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
- A young bluefish.
- One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs.
- (Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
- One who, or that which, nips.
- (historical) One of the gloves or mittens worn by fishermen to protect their hands from cold and abrasion.
- (British, informal) A child.
- a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
- a young person of either sex
verb
verb
noun
- (countable) A noctuid moth of species Cucullia umbratica.
- (sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
- (ichthyology, countable) Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- Any fish in the genus Epalzeorhynchos.
- Any fish in the genus Balantiocheilos.
- (informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
- (informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.
- (informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
- Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
- A roseline shark (Dawkinsia denisonii).
- (uncountable) Flesh of this animal, consumed as food.
- (UK, university slang, countable) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.
- A person that excels in a particular field.
- (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
- A paroon shark (Pangasius sanitwongsei).
- (paleontology, loosely) Any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, especially an extinct shark-like holocephalian.
- An iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus).
- any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
- a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
verb
noun
- A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.
- A sudoku technique involving possible cell locations for a digit, or pair, or triple, in uniquely three rows and three columns only. This allows for the elimination of candidates around the grid.
- flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks
- large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night
noun
- (uncountable) The act of catching fish.
- (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
- (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
- (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
- the occupation of catching fish for a living
- the act of someone who fishes as a diversion
verb
verb
noun
- A temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia.
- (fishing, chiefly Canada, US) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks.
- Synonym of chum salmon.
- (pottery) A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.
- bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped overboard to attract fish
- a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish
- a close friend who accompanies their buddies in their activities
noun
verb
- (transitive) To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
- (transitive) To tear in pieces.
- (law) To suspend.
- (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
- (transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
- (ambitransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
- (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
- (transitive) To take as a toll.
- (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
- (figuratively) To make a sound as if made by a bell.
- (African-American Vernacular) simple past and past participle of tell
- To pay a toll or tallage.
- (transitive) To announce by ringing a bell.
- ring slowly
- charge a fee for using
noun
- (business, by extension) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
- The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.
- A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
- (US) A tollbooth.
- Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
- A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges
- the sound of a bell being struck
verb
noun
- Any of the genus Tetrapturus of marlins, a type of fish with the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike bill.
- Any quillback (Carpioides cyprinus
- Any striped marlin (Kajikia audax)
- any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare
verb
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
- To put (something) into a pot.
- (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).
- (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
- (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
- (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
- plant in a pot
noun
- (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
- (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
- (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.
- (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
- (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- the quantity contained in a pot
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- a container in which plants are cultivated
- street names for marijuana
- slang for a paunch
- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
noun
- (fishing) A fish that tends to take bait.
- (curling) A stone that barely touches the outside of the house.
- (slang) One who copies someone else's work, style or techniques, especially in hip-hop.
- Agent noun of bite; someone or something who bites or tends to bite.
- (in combination, computing) Something (a data unit, machine etc.) with a width of a specified amount of bits.
- (fiction) A zombie.
- someone who bites
noun
noun
- (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth or another solid celestial body.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.
- (philately) A cancellation postmark.
- (printing, historical) An imperfect matrix for type.
- (military, by extension) An attack, not necessarily physical.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The strike plate of a door.
- (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
- a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
- a conspicuous success
- (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders
- a gentle blow
- an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective
verb
- (transitive) To make and ratify; to reach; to find.
- (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- (transitive) To create an impression.
- (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- (transitive) To hit.
- (transitive, figurative) To impinge upon.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- (sports) To score a goal.
- (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- (intransitive, by extension) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
- (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
- (transitive, finance) To balance (a ledger or account).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- (transitive) To impress, seem or appear to (a person).
- (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To infest the flesh of a living vertebrate.
- (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- (transitive, fishing) To hook (a fish) by a quick turn of the wrist.
- deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing
- hook by a pull on the line
- drive something violently into a location
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- pierce with force
- cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- find unexpectedly
- smooth with a strickle
- disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set
- occupy or take on
- stop work in order to press demands
- produce by ignition or a blow
- indicate (a certain time) by striking
- attain
noun
- A fish, the cunner.
- (historical) A boy working as a navvies' assistant.
- (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
- The claws of a crab or lobster.
- (Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
- A young bluefish.
- One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs.
- (Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
- One who, or that which, nips.
- (historical) One of the gloves or mittens worn by fishermen to protect their hands from cold and abrasion.
- (British, informal) A child.
- a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
- a young person of either sex
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The act of catching fish.
- (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
- (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
- (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
- the occupation of catching fish for a living
- the act of someone who fishes as a diversion
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (New England, Pennsylvania, Upper Midwestern US) A freshwater crustacean (family Cambaridae), sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.
- (Australia) A freshwater crayfish (family Parastacidae), such as the gilgie, marron, or yabby.
- (Singapore) The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family (Scyllaridae).
- (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) A rock lobster (family Palinuridae).
- Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
- warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
- large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
- small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
- tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
verb
noun
- (Quebec, Canada, slang, derogatory) An English-Canadian. Used in some corners of Quebec (including the Gaspé).
- (United States, especially Southern US, Louisiana and Texas, Midwest, Western US) Any of various freshwater crustaceans: crayfish.
- (South Africa) Any of various marine crustaceans, rock lobster; especially Jasus lalandii, the Cape crawfish.
- large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
- small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
- tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly
verb
noun
- (Internet) Someone who creates a false profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
- The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.
- Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
- (Internet) Such a false profile.
- large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
- any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
- flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
verb
- (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
- (rare) To back out of something.
- (transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- (zoology, of sugar gliders) To make a loud, rapid rattling sound when scared, stressed, or agitated.
- (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
- (transitive) To complain about.
- (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- (intransitive) To complain.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- (transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
- scurry sideways like a crab
- complain
- fish for crab
- direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
noun
- (Singapore, military, slang) On an insignia, a coat of arms symbol representing a senior rank.
- (uncountable, aviation) Ellipsis of crab angle.
- (poker slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
- (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- (informal) Clipping of carabiner, modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- (uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- Any of various crustacean in the infraorder Anomura, usually excluding squat lobsters.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- (derogatory, Blood slang) A member of the Crips.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- A horseshoe crab.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A bad-tempered person.
- decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- a quarrelsome grouch
- the edible flesh of any of various crabs
- a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
- a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
verb
noun
- Food prepared from such fish, often deep fried and served as a starter or snack.
- The young of various species of fish, especially herrings, sprats or smelts
- minnows or other small fresh- or saltwater fish (especially herring); usually cooked whole
- the edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts
verb
- (intransitive) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
- (transitive, billiards) To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.
- (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.
- (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
- (figurative, informal, with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
- (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
- move or proceed at an angle
- seek indirectly
- present with a bias
- fish with a hook
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
noun
- A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
- A change in direction.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A corner where two walls intersect.
- (slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
- (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
- (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
- (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
- (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefiting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral.
- (media) The focus of a news story.
- A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
- A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
- a biased way of looking at or presenting something
- the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians
verb
- (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
- (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
- (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
- (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
- (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
- (stative, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
- penetrate or cut, as with a knife
- deliver a sting to
noun
- The act of biting.
- (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- (television) Ellipsis of sound bite.
- (slang) Something unpleasant.
- (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- (figuratively, uncountable) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
- A small meal or snack.
- (slang) An act of plagiarism.
- (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
- (cricket) The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- a strong odor or taste property
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a light informal meal
- a portion removed from the whole
- a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
- wit having a sharp and caustic quality
- the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
verb
- (transitive) To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.
- (intransitive) To fish with a concave spoon bait.
- Alternative form of spoom.
- (tennis, golf, croquet) To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
- To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.
- (transitive or intransitive, informal, of persons) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
- scoop up or take up with a spoon
- snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others
noun
- (slang) An oar.
- (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
- (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.
- An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
- A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
- (US, military) A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
- (slang) A metaphoric unit of finite physical and mental energy available for daily activities, especially in the context of living with chronic illness or disability.
- An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
- A South African shrub of the genus Spatalla.
- as much as a spoon will hold
- formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face
- a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
verb
noun
- (Australia, colloquial, derogatory) Synonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.
- (Australia, slang) A fool, an idiot.
- (Commonwealth) A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.
- Alternative form of porn.
- A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
- shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible
- any of various edible decapod crustaceans
verb
adj
noun
- (slang, historical) A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
- A slipper lobster (a crustacean of the family Scyllaridae).
- A squat lobster.
- A spiny lobster, also called the rock lobster, a crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.
- A crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a seafood.
- (slang) An Australian twenty-dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.
- any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
- flesh of a lobster
verb
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
- seek indirectly
- (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (transitive) To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
noun
- any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- the flesh of fish used as food
- A period of time spent fishing.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- A cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes).
- (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- An instance of seeking something.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- A placoderm (paraphyletic class †Placodermi).
- A jawless fish (paraphyletic infraphylum Agnatha).
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A bony fish (clade Osteichthyes), including tetrapods.
- (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A spiny shark (paraphyletic class †Acanthodii)
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
verb
- (intransitive) To catch or fish with a gig or fizgig.
- (music) To play (a musical instrument) at a gig.
- (transitive) To make a joke, often condescendingly, at the expense of (someone); to make fun of.
- (intransitive) Sometimes followed by it: to ride in a gig (“a two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse”).
- (by extension) To work at any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
- (US, military) To impose a demerit (on someone) for an infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
- (transitive) To spear (fish, etc.) with a gig or fizgig.
- (film, music, television, theater) To engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.
noun
- Originally (music), a performing engagement by a musician or musical group; (by extension, film, television, theater) a job or role for a performer.
- A small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.
- (fishing) Synonym of fishgig or fizgig (“a spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals”).
- (slang, chiefly sciences) Any unit of measurement having the SI prefix giga-.
- (Southern England, by extension) A similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; specifically, a six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
- (informal, computing) Clipping of gigabyte (“one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes”).
- (road transport, historical) A two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.
- (US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
- (by extension) Any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
- tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain
- a booking for musicians
- small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood
- a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting
- an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
verb
- (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
- (intransitive) To get pregnant.
- (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
- (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- (transitive) To grip or entangle.
- (transitive) To travel by means of.
- (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- (transitive) To be hit by something.
- (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
- (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- (transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to.
- (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
- (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To notice.
- (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- (transitive) To charm or entrance.
- (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence.
- (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- reach in time
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- to hook or entangle
- suffer from the receipt of
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- attract; cause to be enamored
- perceive by hearing
- be struck or affected by
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- come down with
- be the catcher
- attract and fix
- detect a blunder or misstep
- start burning
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- become aware of
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- check oneself during an action
- spread or be communicated
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- see or watch
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- take in and retain
noun
- (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
- (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
- (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
- (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
- (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
- (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- the quantity that was caught
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
verb
noun
- Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
- A conger eel, also called the Congo eel, amphiuma, and Congo snake (any salamander of the genus Amphiuma).
- A two-legged eel, also called the mud eel and lesser siren, Siren intermedia.
- A European eel (Anguilla anguilla).
- Someone or something that is sneaky and/or hard to catch.
- A vinegar eel, a roundworm of species Turbatrix aceti.
- An electric eel (any knifefish of the genus Electrophorus)
- A rubber eel, Typhlonectes natans.
- An earthworm eel, also called the spineless eel (any fish in the family Chaudhuriidae).
- A deep-sea spiny eel (any fish in the family Notacanthidae).
- A leopard eel, also called the leopard siren and reticulated siren, Siren reticulata.
- A swamp eel (any fish in the family Synbranchidae).
- A spiny eel (any fish in the family Mastacembelidae).
- voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
- the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
- (slang, uncommon) Synonym of butterface
- Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
- (slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.
- (slang, derogatory) A small penis.
- disparaging terms for small people
- any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
verb
adj
noun
- A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
- (figurative) Something at one's disposal.
- (UK, slang) Ellipsis of Oyster card.
- (colloquial, by analogy) A person who keeps secrets.
- Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.
- (UK, slang) A shoplifter.
- The delicate oyster-shaped morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
- a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl
- marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters
- edible body of any of numerous oysters
verb
noun
- A velvet smoothing brush.
- (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
- (music) Alternative form of lur.
- (also figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
- (falconry) A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
- qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward
- anything that serves as an enticement
- something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
verb
noun
verb
noun
- Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
- (British, derogatory) An objectionable elderly woman.
- any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons
- flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
verb
noun
- (Christianity) The Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
- (fishing) A tackle rig with a heavy sinker at the end of the line, and one or more hooks on traces at right angles spaced above the sinker.
- (architecture, millwork) A bead-like ornament in mouldings.
- A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.
- a type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in an endless loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor
verb
noun
- A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
- A net or dragnet used for trawling.
- An exhaustive search.
- a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
- a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
verb
noun
- (countable) A noctuid moth of species Cucullia umbratica.
- (sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
- (ichthyology, countable) Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- Any fish in the genus Epalzeorhynchos.
- Any fish in the genus Balantiocheilos.
- (informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
- (informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.
- (informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
- Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
- A roseline shark (Dawkinsia denisonii).
- (uncountable) Flesh of this animal, consumed as food.
- (UK, university slang, countable) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.
- A person that excels in a particular field.
- (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
- A paroon shark (Pangasius sanitwongsei).
- (paleontology, loosely) Any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, especially an extinct shark-like holocephalian.
- An iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus).
- any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
- a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
verb
noun
- A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.
- A sudoku technique involving possible cell locations for a digit, or pair, or triple, in uniquely three rows and three columns only. This allows for the elimination of candidates around the grid.
- flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks
- large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night
verb
noun
- A temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia.
- (fishing, chiefly Canada, US) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks.
- Synonym of chum salmon.
- (pottery) A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.
- bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped overboard to attract fish
- a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish
- a close friend who accompanies their buddies in their activities
verb
- (transitive) To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
- (transitive) To tear in pieces.
- (law) To suspend.
- (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
- (transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
- (ambitransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
- (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
- (transitive) To take as a toll.
- (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
- (figuratively) To make a sound as if made by a bell.
- (African-American Vernacular) simple past and past participle of tell
- To pay a toll or tallage.
- (transitive) To announce by ringing a bell.
- ring slowly
- charge a fee for using
noun
- (business, by extension) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
- The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.
- A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
- (US) A tollbooth.
- Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
- A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges
- the sound of a bell being struck
verb
noun
- Any of the genus Tetrapturus of marlins, a type of fish with the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike bill.
- Any quillback (Carpioides cyprinus
- Any striped marlin (Kajikia audax)
- any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare
verb
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
- To put (something) into a pot.
- (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).
- (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
- (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
- (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
- plant in a pot
noun
- (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
- (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
- (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.
- (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
- (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- the quantity contained in a pot
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- a container in which plants are cultivated
- street names for marijuana
- slang for a paunch
- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent