spale
speel
spelk
spelt
matchwood
splinters
spell
ripping
chippy
barauna
wood putty
lignolysis
cleat
lignolytic
sawhorse
horse
sawbuck
buck
chopper
cramp
clout
shive
key
clout nail
woodrick
thock
woodgrain
handsaw
hylo-
ligno-
splinter
pin
hag
chock
carpenter's saw
hand saw
wedge
xylo-
dook
caul
set
ripsaw
metallography
splint
bar
spline
splitsaw
strip
woodenish
woodeny
slickem
scarf
nog
saw
shake
poll
fiberboard
loglike
axe
wiggle nail
wood carving
bucksaw
chiplike
corrugated fastener
split
puncheon
framesaw
stick
peg
slat
woodlet
scrapwood
button
fid
ligniform
woodblock
sheaf
corded
turning steel
panel strip
rip
knife block
dagame
haulm
lemonwood tree
Calycophyllum candidissimum
froe
end grain
hardwall
bow saw
crosscut saw
plug
wall plate
firmer chisel
chippy
lignolytic
woodenish
woodeny
loglike
chiplike
split
ligniform
corded
hardwall
spale
speel
spelk
spelt
matchwood
splinters
spell
ripping
barauna
wood putty
lignolysis
cleat
sawhorse
horse
sawbuck
buck
chopper
cramp
clout
shive
key
clout nail
woodrick
thock
woodgrain
handsaw
splinter
pin
hag
chock
carpenter's saw
hand saw
wedge
dook
caul
ripsaw
metallography
splint
bar
spline
splitsaw
strip
slickem
scarf
nog
saw
shake
poll
fiberboard
axe
wiggle nail
wood carving
bucksaw
corrugated fastener
puncheon
framesaw
stick
peg
slat
woodlet
scrapwood
button
fid
woodblock
sheaf
turning steel
panel strip
knife block
dagame
haulm
lemonwood tree
Calycophyllum candidissimum
froe
end grain
set
split
bow saw
crosscut saw
plug
wall plate
firmer chisel
set
rip
stick
noun
- A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
- An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
- A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
- An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
- Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
- A definite period (of work or other activity).
- The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
- A period of rest; time off.
- A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
- A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
verb
- To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
- To work in place of (someone).
- To constitute; to measure.
- To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
- To clarify; to explain in detail.
- Of letters: to compose (a word).
- To indicate that (some event) will occur.
- To rest from work for a time.
- To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
- To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
noun
- Wood that has been ripped (cut parallel to the grain).
- The process of ploughing a rabbit warren with deep furrows as a form of feral control.
- The process of copying audio or video content from a CD, DVD, etc. to a hard disk.
- The use of diet and exercise to reduce body fat and emphasize muscle mass.
adj
adj
- Tending to form chips when cut, rather than larger, more usable pieces of wood.
- Ill-tempered, disagreeable.
- Involving violence or unfair play.
noun
- A carpenter.
- A fish-and-chip shop.
- A potato chip.
- A chipping sparrow.
- A chiptune.
- An occasional drug habit, less than addiction.
- A prostitute or promiscuous woman.
- The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk.
verb
noun
noun
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
- solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
- a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
- troops trained to fight on horseback
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
verb
noun
- A tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.
- A thick mitten, usually with yellow leather on the outside.
- The penis.
- A knife for chopping food, especially one with a large oblong blade.
- A helicopter.
- An assault rifle, especially a fully-automatic one (e.g. an AK-47).
- A type of road motorcycle, especially as used by biker/bikie gangs.
- A crude tool with an irregular cutting edge formed by removing flakes from one side of a stone.
- A high-bouncing batted ball.
- The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
- Any of various electronic switches used to interrupt one signal under the control of another.
verb
noun
- A beam or plank of split wood.
- A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
- A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
- A slice, especially of bread.
- A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.
- A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
- A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.
noun
- A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
- A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
- A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
- One of a string of small islands.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
- In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
- In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
- A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
- A keystone.
- The last board of a floor when laid down.
- The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
- A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
- In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
- An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
- The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
- A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
- That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
- A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
- The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- A color to be masked or made transparent.
- An object designed to open and close a lock.
- In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
verb
- To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
- (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
- To depress (a telegraph key).
- To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
- To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
- To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
- To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
adj
noun
prefix
noun
- a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things
- a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
- cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target
verb
noun
- A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
- An evil woman.
- A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family Myxinidae, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.
- A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
- A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
- The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
- A fury; a she-monster.
- Sleep paralysis.
- An ugly old woman.
- A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
verb
noun
- a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
- any shape that is triangular in cross section
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
- a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation
- a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
- (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
- something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
verb
prefix
noun
- A strip or block of wood used to distribute or direct clamping force.
- The amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth (traditionally considered to be good luck).
- The surface of a press that makes contact with panel product, especially a removable plate or sheet.
- An entry to a mill lead taken from a burn or stream (a mill lead (or mill waterway) is generally smaller than a canal but moves a large volume of water).
- Caul fat.
- A membrane.
- A style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen.
- The thin membrane which covers the lower intestines; the omentum.
verb
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
noun
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
adj
noun
- A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
- A device to immobilize a body part.
- A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate.
- A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
- A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
- A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
- Synonym of splent coal
verb
noun
- a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
- a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- a counter where you can obtain food or drink
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
- the act of preventing
- (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
- a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
- the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
- a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
- a heating element in an electric fire
- (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
verb
noun
- Long thin piece of metal or wood.
- Ridges or teeth on a drive shaft that mesh with grooves in a mating piece and transfer torque to it, maintaining the angular correspondence between them.
- A flexible strip of metal or other material, that may be bent into a curve and used in a similar manner to a ruler to draw smooth curves between points.
- A rectangular piece that fits grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together.
- Any of a number of smooth curves used to join points.
- A strip of wood or other material inserted into grooves in each of two pieces of wood to provide additional surface for gluing.
verb
noun
- thin piece of wood or metal
- a relatively long narrow piece of something
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- an airfield without normal airport facilities
- a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
- a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
verb
- take away possessions from someone
- get undressed
- remove the surface from
- remove substances from by a percolating liquid
- lay bare
- steal goods; take as spoils
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
- strip the cured leaves from
- remove the thread (of screws)
- remove a constituent from a liquid
- take off or remove
- draw the last milk (of cows)
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
adj
adj
noun
- A piece of wood wrapped in abrasive cloth, used for sharpening blades.
- A very fine waste material produced by hydraulic mining which tends to contaminate waterways.
- A long-chain polymer that is injected into oil pipelines to reduce turbulent flow.
- An SLCM (sea-launched cruise missile).
- A superlubricant packet or spray that can be used to reduce traction on surfaces or as a lubricant.
- Hair oil.
noun
- A type of joint in woodworking.
- A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
- A headscarf.
- A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.
- A cormorant.
- A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
verb
- To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
- To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
- To eat very quickly.
- To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
- To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
- To shape by grinding.
noun
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- A milkshake.
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- A shock or disturbance.
- In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- A thin shingle.
verb
- To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- To dance.
- To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- To threaten to overthrow.
- To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- To shake hands.
- To move from side to side.
- To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
noun
- The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
- A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
- A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
- The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
- A pet parrot.
- A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
- The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
- The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
- A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
verb
- To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
- To remove the horns of (an animal).
- To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
- To impose a tax upon.
- To pay as one's personal tax.
- To cut the hair of (a creature).
- To vote at an election.
- To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
- To be judged in a poll.
- To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
- To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation
- To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
- To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
- To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
adj
noun
- A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
- A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
- An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
- A dismissal or rejection.
- A drastic reduction or cutback.
- A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
verb
adj
- Resembling or characteristic of a chip (damaged area of a surface where a small piece has broken off).
- Resembling or characteristic of a chip (thin, crisp, baked piece of vegetable).
- Resembling or characteristic of a chip (fragment of stone etc.).
- Resembling or characteristic of a chip (wedge of fried potato).
- Resembling or characteristic of a chip (electronic circuit fabricated on substrate).
adj
- (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
noun
- a lengthwise crack in wood
- extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
- a bottle containing half the usual amount
- a promised or claimed share of loot or money
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts
- (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl
- an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- division of a group into opposing factions
verb
noun
- A piece of roughly dressed timber with one face finished flat (by either hewing or sawing).
- A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.
- A split log or heavy slab of timber with the face smoothed, used especially for flooring but also for log cabin walls, piers, or plank roads.
- A type of cask used to hold liquids, having a capacity varying from 72 to 120 gallons; a tercian.
- A short low bridge of similar construction. Also called puncheon bridge.
- A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud.
- A walkway or short, low footbridge over wet ground constructed with such timbers, made by laying one or more planks or dressed timbers over sills set directly on the ground; also called duck boards, bog boards, or bog bridge.
noun
- A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- The clarinet.
- Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- General hitting ability.
- The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- The short whip carried by a jockey.
- A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- A handgun.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Corporal punishment; beatings.
- The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- The traction of tires on the road surface.
- The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- Criticism or ridicule.
- A memory stick.
- A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward. Compare carrot.)
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
verb
- To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- To perform (a landing) perfectly.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To stab.
- To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- To persist.
- Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To propagate plants by cuttings.
- To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- To jam; to stop moving.
- To furnish or set with sticks.
- To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
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- a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
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- A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.
- A ski.
- A control surface that extends forwards and downwards from the leading edge of a wing, leaving a gap between it and the leading edge, in order to modify the airflow around the wing so as to allow flight at a higher angle of attack without stalling, lowering the aircraft's stall speed.
- A thin piece of stone; a slate.
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- A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
- 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.
- The clitoris.
- A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
- A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
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- A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.
- A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, to support the weight of the topmast (on a ship).
- A small thick piece of anything.
- A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun.
- The penis.
- A pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing. Compare marlinespike.
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- A sheave.
- A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
- A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
- An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets.
- A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
- Any collection of things bound together.
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- A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
- A promotion (act of promoting) a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing (concept, etc), for example during an interview or a commercial.
- A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
- A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
- An electric socket: wall plug.
- Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
- A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
- A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
- A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
- A high, tapering silk hat.
- A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
- A drug dealer.
- A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
- A worthless horse.
- A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
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