stirrup
ladderlike
jumar
stepladder
step ladder
climbing gym
rope ladder
stand
anchor
rimer
levered
creeper
scale
pony
output arm
workstand
sabre saw
rung
handline
stair wire
crimper
multilevered
climbing wall
via ferrata set
slide
shooting stick
flying fox
toehold
climby
pair of ladders
via ferrata
stale
spoke
hook ladder
rundle
fifi hook
ropeline
sty
climbing hold
snake
campus board
linkage
ladder handle
hinge
stairclimber
perched
spring-loaded camming device
crab
vigorimeter
derrick
comb
hangboard
overstrap
knacker
scalable
tether
uneven bars
foot pedal
Jacob's ladder
treadle
pedal
laddery
step
foot lever
tackle
jug hold
attachment
4-to-1 rule
tool
reinforcement
Dremel
perch pole
belay
strengthener
stalk
rack
spoiler
fingery
climbing shoe
work one's way up
lady's laces
ascender
conduit bender
rope wall
cuddy
appurtenance
pull
drop grommet
land mine
nosing
buttoning
upladder
gripper
ladderlike
levered
multilevered
climby
perched
scalable
laddery
fingery
upladder
stirrup
stepladder
step ladder
climbing gym
rope ladder
stand
anchor
rimer
creeper
pony
output arm
workstand
sabre saw
rung
handline
stair wire
crimper
climbing wall
via ferrata set
slide
shooting stick
flying fox
toehold
pair of ladders
via ferrata
stale
spoke
hook ladder
rundle
fifi hook
ropeline
sty
climbing hold
snake
campus board
linkage
ladder handle
hinge
stairclimber
spring-loaded camming device
crab
vigorimeter
derrick
comb
hangboard
overstrap
knacker
tether
uneven bars
foot pedal
Jacob's ladder
treadle
pedal
step
foot lever
tackle
jug hold
attachment
tool
reinforcement
Dremel
perch pole
belay
strengthener
stalk
rack
spoiler
climbing shoe
work one's way up
lady's laces
ascender
conduit bender
rope wall
cuddy
appurtenance
pull
drop grommet
land mine
nosing
buttoning
gripper
jumar
scale
belay
noun
- A portable, flexible ladder-like device used in climbing.
- Any piece shaped like the stirrup of a saddle, used as a support, clamp, etc.
- A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.
- A ring or hoop suspended by a rope or strap from the saddle, for a horseman's foot while mounting or riding.
- A stapes.
adj
noun
- A device to hold something upright or aloft.
- A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
- A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
- A single set, as of arms.
- The act of standing.
- A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
- A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
- A partnership.
- A defensive position or effort.
- A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
- The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
- An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
- A period of performance in a given location or venue.
- A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
- Grandstand. (often in the plural)
- A type of supernatural ability from the anime and manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, named for the fact that they appear to 'stand' next to their user.
- A location or position where one may stand.
- A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
verb
- To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
- To be valid.
- Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
- To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
- To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
- To remain without ruin or injury.
- To place in an upright or standing position.
- To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
- To appear in court.
- To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
- To be positioned to gain or lose.
- To undergo; withstand; hold up.
- To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
- To remain motionless.
- To be present, to have welled up.
- To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
- To measure when erect on the feet.
- To be a candidate (in an election).
- To act as an umpire.
- To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
- To tolerate.
- To cover the expense of; to pay for.
- To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
- To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
noun
- A device for attaching a climber at the top of a climb, such as a chain or ring or a natural feature.
- Any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a device to hold the end of a bridge cable etc.; or a device used in metalworking to hold the core of a mould in place.
- A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
- A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.
- The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
- A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
- That which gives stability or security.
- A screw anchor.
- Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; part of the ornaments of certain mouldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
- One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
- The thirty-fifth Lenormand card.
- A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.
- One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.
- The brake of a vehicle.
- A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player.
- A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.
- An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. (FM 55-501).
- The final runner in a relay race.
- An anchorman or anchorwoman.
- Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
verb
noun
- A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
- A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
- A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
- Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
- Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
- The lowest gear of a tractor or truck.
- A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
- A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
- A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
- An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
- A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
- A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon an auto mechanic may lie on their back and gain better access to the underbody of a vehicle.
- A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
- A ball that travels low, near ground level.
- A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
- A treecreeper.
verb
- climb up by means of a ladder
- measure by or as if by a scale
- pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard
- take by attacking with scaling ladders
- reach the highest point of
- remove the scales from
- measure with or as if with scales
- size or measure according to a scale
noun
- an ordered reference standard
- relative magnitude
- the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it
- a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
- a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
- (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
- a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass
- an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals
noun
- a contraption built like a mount, strong enough to support one's weight
- One horsepower.
- A small horse; specifically, any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands at the withers.
- A translation used as a study aid; loosely, a crib, a cheat-sheet.
- Crap; rubbish, nonsense.
- A ponytail hairstyle.
- A small serving of an alcoholic beverage, especially beer.
- A serving of 140 millilitres of beer (formerly 5 fl oz); a quarter pint.
- Twenty-five pounds sterling.
- A chorus girl of small stature.
adj
verb
noun
- A small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.
- A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
- A hairdresser.
- A person who crimps when climbing.
- Someone who adds pleats to fabric for clothes, drapery, etc.
- A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal.
- A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
- A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
- An instrument for crimping or ruffling pastry when making a pie.
noun
- A lever that can be moved in two directions.
- A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
- A shoe that is backless and open-toed.
- A pocket in one's pants (trousers).
- The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
- A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
- A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
- A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
- A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
- The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
- An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
- A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.
- A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
- A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
- A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
- A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
- A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
- The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
- A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
- A promiscuous woman, slut.
- An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
- A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
verb
- To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
- To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
- To move on a low-friction surface.
- To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
- To decrease in amount or value.
- To smoothly pass from one note to another by bending the pitch upwards or downwards.
- To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.
- To go; to move from one place or to another.
- To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
- To drop down and skid into a base.
- To subtly direct a facial expression at (someone).
- To kick so that the ball slides along the ground with little or no turning.
noun
- A device consisting of a chair suspended on a pulley, and running along a length of cable, used for transporting across ravines etc.
- A cable-operated gyroscopic camera that is suspended on a ropeway, used in filming motion pictures and sporting events.
- Any bat of the family Pteropodidae (see Usage notes).
- The cyprinid fish Epalzeorhynchos kalopterus.
- A large Australasian bat, of the genera Pteropus or Acerodon in the family Pteropodidae, having a fox-like face.
noun
- One of the rungs on a ladder.
- One of the posts or uprights of a ladder.
- A stalemate; a stalemated game.
- The shaft of an arrow, spear, etc.
- Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.
- A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.)
verb
- To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.
- To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.
- To stalemate.
- To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.
adj
- Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
- Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.
- No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
- Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
- No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; cliche, hackneyed, dated.
- Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
- Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.
noun
- A tool to aid cable pulling.
- A series of Bézier curves.
- The seventh Lenormand card.
- A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
- A legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
- A treacherous person; a rat.
- Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.
- Trouser snake; the penis.
- An informer; a rat.
- A tool for unclogging plumbing.
verb
- To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
- To inform; to rat.
- To clean using a plumbing snake.
- To follow or move in a winding route.
- To steal slyly.
- To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
noun
- A mechanical device that connects things.
- A connection or relation between things or ideas.
- The act or result of linking: the combination of multiple object files into one executable, library, or object file.
- A United States foreign policy, during the 1970s détente in the Cold War, of persuading the Soviet Union to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for nuclear and economic concessions.
- The property of genes of being inherited together.
- A set of definitely related languages for which no proto-language can be derived, typically a group of languages within a family that have formed a sprachbund.
noun
- A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
- A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
- One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
- A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
- The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
- A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
- A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
verb
- To depend on something.
- The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
- To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
- To move or already be positioned in such a fashion that it presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
noun
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- A playing card with the rank of three.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
- The state of an aircraft's nose being pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing.
- A bad-tempered person.
verb
- To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- To ruin.
- To fish for crabs.
- To move (a camera) sideways.
- To back out of something.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- To complain about.
- To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To complain.
noun
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
verb
- To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
- A harness maker.
- One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
- A member of the Travelling Community; a Gypsy.
- One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.
- A person of lower social class; a chav, skanger or scobe.
- One who dismantles old ships, houses, etc. and sells their components.
- One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; a clapper.
- A testicle.
- An old, worn-out horse.
verb
noun
- a rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement
- a strong rope or line that connects a sailor's safety harness to the boat's jackstay
- the limit of one's abilities, resources etc.
- The cardinal number three in an old counting system used in Teesdale and Swaledale. (Variant of tethera)
verb
noun
- A noncompact surface resembling a ladder made of handlebodies.
- A rope ladder from the ratline to the upper mast.
- A high-voltage electrical device, often used as a visual effect in old movies, which has a pair of vertical electrodes that form an arc between them starting at the bottom, rising to the top, then repeating.
- A pocketknife consisting of two handle segments joined by a pivot, with a blade connected by a second pivot to the end of one handle segment.
- A ladder leading to heaven.
- A toy consisting of blocks of wood, held together by strings or ribbons, that appear to cascade downward as they flip over.
- A serving of short ribs.
- A flowering plant of the genus Polemonium.
noun
- A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- A small space or distance.
- A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- A stepchild.
- A stepsibling.
- A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
verb
- To dance.
- To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
- To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- To set, as the foot.
noun
- A device for grasping an object and an attached means of moving it, as a rope and hook.
- Any instance in which one person intercepts another and forces them to the ground.
- A block and tackle.
- A man's genitalia.
- Equipment, gear, gadgetry.
- A play where a player attempts to take control over the ball from an opponent, as in rugby or football.
- Equipment (rod, reel, line, lure, etc.) used when angling.
- An offensive line position between a guard and an end: offensive tackle; a person playing that position.
- A play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground.
- Clothing.
- A defensive position between two defensive ends: defensive tackle; a person playing that position.
verb
- To "hit on" or pursue a person that one is interested in.
- To face or deal with, attempting to overcome or fight down.
- To bring a ball carrier to the ground.
- To attempt to take away a ball.
- To force a person to the ground with the weight of one's own body, usually by jumping on top or slamming one's weight into them.
noun
- A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
- The means by which something is physically attached.
- Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
- The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
- A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.
- A file sent along with a message, usually an email.
- The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
- A dependence, especially a strong one.
noun
- A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
- A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
- A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
- Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
- Any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools.
- A gun.
- A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
- An obnoxious or uptight person.
verb
- To equip with tools.
- To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
- To work very hard.
- To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
- To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
- To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
noun
- a device designed to provide additional strength
- a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
- information that makes more forcible or convincing
- (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it
- an act performed to strengthen approved behavior
noun
- One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
- The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
- An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
- The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
- A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
- A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
- The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
- The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
- The hunting of a wild animal by stealthy approach.
- An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
- Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
- A haughty style of walking.
verb
- To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.ᵂᵖ
- To walk haughtily.
- To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
- To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
- To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
noun
- A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- 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 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 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 set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
- A fast amble.
- 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.
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 device to reduce lift and increase downforce.
- An individual (or organisation etc.), unable to win themselves, who spoils the chances of another's victory.
- One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
- A document, review or comment that discloses the ending or some key surprise or twist in a story, or the internal rules controlling the behaviour of a video game, etc.
- A device to reduce lift and increase drag.
- One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
verb
noun
- A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc..
- a small cupboard or closet.
- A pony that works in a mine.
- A coalfish (Pollachius virens).
- A donkey, especially one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
- A cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck.
noun
- Equipment used for some specific task; gear.
- That which appertains; an appendage to something else; an addition.
- A subordinate interest in land which benefits a principal estate, which cannot be detached from or held separately to that estate; an appurtenant interest.
- A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.
- The state or quality of being an appurtenance.
noun
- a device used for pulling something
- the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you
- the force used in pulling
- special advantage or influence
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- a sustained effort
verb
- cause to move by pulling
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- move into a certain direction
- apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion
- perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- steer into a certain direction
- strain abnormally
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
- operate when rowing a boat
- rein in to keep from winning a race
- tear or be torn violently
- hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing
- strip of feathers
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for
- take away
noun
- A piece of exercise device consisting of a pivoting tube attached to the ground to which a barbell can be fitted to lift it off the ground.
- A critical subject or situation with concealed or unpredictable implications.
- A mine that is placed on land and designed to explode when stepped upon or touched.
adv
noun
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