rack
bar shoe
turnpike
perch
heaver
sticker
ratchet
apicoprepalatal
lamb's tongue
ratchety
ratchetlike
raillike
latch
grab bar
treviss
hamade
monkey tail
featherwise
hamster wheel
Pelham
lever
nut-bar
ramus
manubrium
loma
railbird
barbicel
auriculars
Korbut flip
bangle
ringer
closet
crossbar
radiolus
bridge
spur
gill
nail bar
longshanks
headboard
barlike
feathering
jim crow
clawlike
pinnule
broach
hand throttle
gemel
clawingly
nosepiece
adderlike
spring beam
crowbar
squirrel cage
vireton
creel
goat's foot
cawer
ungular
stock
talon
trace
nail
pogo stick
vane
button
beard
rhynchokinesis
reedling
leaf
barbule
arrowily
circumpeduncular
trephiner
pinchbar
feather
fluke
beak
fist
mechanical bank
ratch
underhold
fan-nerved
shabble
spencer
striped button quail
ratchet punch
claw-shaped
clutch
Turnix sylvatica
graduate
delthyrium
prybar
apicoprepalatal
ratchety
ratchetlike
raillike
barlike
clawlike
adderlike
ungular
circumpeduncular
fan-nerved
claw-shaped
featherwise
clawingly
arrowily
rack
bar shoe
turnpike
perch
heaver
sticker
ratchet
lamb's tongue
latch
grab bar
treviss
hamade
monkey tail
hamster wheel
Pelham
lever
nut-bar
ramus
manubrium
loma
railbird
barbicel
auriculars
Korbut flip
ringer
closet
crossbar
radiolus
bridge
spur
gill
nail bar
longshanks
headboard
feathering
jim crow
pinnule
broach
hand throttle
gemel
nosepiece
spring beam
squirrel cage
vireton
creel
goat's foot
cawer
stock
talon
trace
nail
pogo stick
vane
button
beard
rhynchokinesis
reedling
leaf
barbule
trephiner
pinchbar
feather
fluke
beak
fist
mechanical bank
ratch
underhold
shabble
spencer
striped button quail
ratchet punch
clutch
Turnix sylvatica
delthyrium
prybar
bangle
crowbar
graduate
noun
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- A distaff.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- A woman's breasts.
- A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- A bunk.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- Sleep.
- A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
- A fast amble.
verb
- To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- To strike in the testicles.
- To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
noun
- A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile.
- A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.
- A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid,
- A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
- A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
- A winding stairway.
verb
noun
- A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.
- Acanthopagrus berda
- Kyphosus azureus
- Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
- A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
- Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
- Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
- A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
- A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
- A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
- Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
- Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
- A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
- A frame used to examine cloth.
- A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
verb
noun
- A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
- One who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.
- A cartoonish illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action, often accompanied by text, that may be superimposed on a digital image.
- Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
- A price tag.
- A wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation (also kiln sticker).
- An adhesive label or decal.
- A burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.
- A brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records.
- A paster.
- The listed price (also sticker price).
verb
noun
- A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
- A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
- A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear. See gragger, raganella.
- A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
- A ratchet wrench.
adj
verb
noun
- A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
- An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
- A levee.
- A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
- A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).
- Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.
verb
noun
- A crowbar.
- A stockman, a cowboy.
- A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
- Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
- A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other, now usually in the phrase dead ringer.
- A fraudulently cloned motor vehicle.
- An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.
- A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
- A top performer.
- A ringer T-shirt.
- The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
- In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
- Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
- A look-alike.
- A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
noun
- An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
- A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
- A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.
- One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
- A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
- The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager.
adj
- closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet)
- Denoting anything kept a secret or private.
verb
noun
- A cue modified with a convex arch-shaped notched head attached to the narrow end, used to support a player's (shooter's) cue for extended or tedious shots. Also called a spider.
- An edge which, if removed, changes a connected graph to one that is not connected.
- A software component connecting two or more separate systems.
- A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent teeth.
- A construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from an elevated height, allowing for the passage of vehicles, pedestrians, trains, etc.
- A similar position in gymnastics.
- A card game played with four players playing as two teams of two players each.
- A particular form of one hand placed on the table to support the cue when making a shot in cue sports.
- A solid crust of undissolved salt in a water softener.
- The situation where a lone rider or small group of riders closes the space between them and the rider or group in front.
- An elongated chain of teammates, connected to the pack, for improved blocking potential.
- The upper bony ridge of the human nose.
- An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.
- A defensive position in which the wrestler is supported by his feet and head, belly-up, in order to prevent touch-down of the shoulders and eventually to dislodge an opponent who has established a position on top.
- A contrasting section within a song that prepares for the return of the original material section.
- The gap between the holes on a bowling ball
- A point in a line where a break in a word unit cannot occur.
- Anything supported at the ends and serving to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
- Any of several electrical devices that measure characteristics such as impedance and inductance by balancing different parts of a circuit
- A connection, real or abstract.
- An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.
- A device which connects two or more computer buses, typically in a transparent manner.
- A statement, such as an offer, that signals a possibility of accord.
- The piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board.
- A rudimentary procedure before definite solution
- A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; a bridge wall.
- An intramolecular valence bond, atom or chain of atoms that connects two different parts of a molecule; the atoms so connected being bridgeheads.
- A system which connects two or more local area networks at layer 2 of OSI model.
- A day falling between two public holidays and consequently designated as an additional holiday.
verb
noun
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- A tern.
- A branch of a vein.
- A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- Roots, tree roots.
- A very short branch line of a railway line.
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
- A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- The short wooden buttress of a post.
- A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
- A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
verb
noun
- The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
- A gill slit or gill cover.
- One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
- One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
- A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
- ravine
- a two-wheeled frame for transporting timber
- rivulet
- a female ferret
- The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
- A drink measure for spirits and wine, approximately a quarter of a pint, but varying regionally.
verb
noun
noun
- An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
- A spire rising from a tower.
- A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
- A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
- The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
- The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
- A spit for cooking food.
- A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
verb
- To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).
- To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
- To begin discussion about (something).
- To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
- To break the surface of the water.
- To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
verb
noun
noun
- A circular cage for a squirrel or other small animal, which rotates vertically as the animal runs at the bottom.
- A tedious, repetitive, unfulfilling activity or situation, especially one in which no progress is achieved.
- Any other device, such as a fan or rotor, that resembles a squirrel cage in form.
noun
- A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
- An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish.
- Such a basket slung as a backpack for cargo, especially in times and places with limited or nonexistent wheeled transport, as for example among peasants in mountainous regions.
- Such a basket slung on a pack animal; a pannier.
verb
noun
- A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Lineage, family, ancestry.
- The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- A share in a company.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- A ski pole.
- A supply of anything ready for use.
- A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
adj
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
verb
noun
- A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
- The ground plan of a work or works.
- The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
- A residue of some substance or material.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- An act of tracing.
- A very small amount.
- One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
verb
- To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
- To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- To follow the trail of.
- To follow the history of.
- To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
noun
- The claw of a bird or other animal.
- A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.
- The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
- The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
- A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The Exchange, Bristol.
- An archaic English unit of length equivalent to ¹⁄₂₀ of an ell or ¹⁄₁₆ of a yard (2+¹⁄₄ inches or 5.715 cm).
- The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
verb
- To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
- To expose as a sham.
- To catch.
- Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To spike, as a cannon.
- To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
- To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
- To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
- To drive a nail.
- To nail down: to make certain, or confirm.
noun
- The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
- Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
- A sight on a sextant or compass.
- One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
- A weather vane.
noun
- The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
- A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
- A bud.
- An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
- The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
- In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
- Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
- A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
- A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
- The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
- A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
- The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
- The center (bullseye) of the house.
- The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
- A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
- The end of a runway.
- Synonym of adjuster.
- The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
- The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
- The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
- A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
- A button man; a professional assassin.
- A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
- A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
- The clitoris.
- A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
verb
noun
- A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
- The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
- The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
- The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
- Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
- The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
- That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
- A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
- The byssus of certain shellfish.
- Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
verb
- To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
- To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
- Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
- To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
noun
- A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
- Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
- A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
- One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
- The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
- A Canadian person.
- The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
- A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
- A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
- Tea leaves.
- In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
- Cannabis.
verb
noun
noun
- One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
- One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
- Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
- A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
- Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
- The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
- A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
- Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
verb
- To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
- To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
- To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
- To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
- To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
- Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
- To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
- To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
- To finely shave or bevel an edge.
- To tread, as a cockerel.
- To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
- To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
- To move softly, like a feather.
noun
- A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
- A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
- The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
- That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
- A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc.
- A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
- The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
- The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
- The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
- A toe clip.
- A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
- cocaine.
- Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
- Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
- A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
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noun
- The talons of a bird of prey.
- The pointing hand symbol ☞.
- The act of breaking wind; fise.
- A puffball.
- The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code.
- A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.
- A person's characteristic handwriting.
- A group of men.
- An attempt at something.
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noun
- A large loose-fitted gaffsail on a square-rigger or barque, used from the nineteenth century onwards.
- A short, close-fitting jacket primarily worn by women and children in the early 19th century.
- A (usually woollen) vest worn by women and girls for extra warmth.
- A short double-breasted men's overcoat worn in the 18th and 19th centuries.
noun
- The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
- An important or critical situation.
- A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
- A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
- A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
- A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
- A group or bunch (of people or things).
- Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
- A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
- The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
- A difficult maneuver
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- To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
- To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
- To change gradually.
- To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
- To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
- To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
- The man graduated in 1967.
- To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
- Of an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like.
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- A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
- A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
- A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.
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English words for 'A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.'
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