gullet
narrow work
gallery
lead
pool
trench
ditch
sap
lodge
arch
archway
cut
fill
excavation
drift
ropewalk
graft
gripple
undercutter
earing
limber
shaft
inspection pit
muck tube
dyke
undergang
cuniculate
poling
palaeodrainage
bunny
swingtree
helminthite
wagonmaking
cut and cover
wagonbuilding
rentice
sill
water tunnel
whippletree
underdrain
cut-and-cover
shell road
trumpeting
sluice
grease pit
sow
trogue
gash
roadcut
weephole
Abyssinian well
barrier
trenching
caponiere
schoenus
barrow-way
cutover
counterdrain
haulageway
rean
sidetrack
gote
tubulous
relais
grave
grip
conacre
ramshorn
sub-excavation
hurdling
barway
pilot
sapping
undercast
hurdlework
syrinx
groove
downcutting
gully-hole
aerial cableway
tunnelway
déblai
trestle
neatwork
underhand
footlog
macroblock
pipeway
duck
sidescraper
drove
cuniculate
cut-and-cover
tubulous
gullet
narrow work
gallery
lead
pool
sap
lodge
ditch
arch
archway
cut
fill
excavation
drift
ropewalk
graft
gripple
undercutter
earing
limber
shaft
trench
inspection pit
muck tube
dyke
undergang
poling
palaeodrainage
bunny
swingtree
helminthite
wagonmaking
cut and cover
wagonbuilding
rentice
sill
water tunnel
whippletree
underdrain
shell road
trumpeting
sluice
grease pit
sow
trogue
gash
roadcut
weephole
Abyssinian well
barrier
trenching
caponiere
schoenus
barrow-way
cutover
counterdrain
haulageway
rean
sidetrack
gote
relais
grave
grip
conacre
ramshorn
sub-excavation
hurdling
barway
pilot
sapping
undercast
hurdlework
syrinx
groove
downcutting
gully-hole
aerial cableway
tunnelway
déblai
trestle
neatwork
footlog
macroblock
pipeway
duck
sidescraper
drove
trench
ditch
underhand
noun
- A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
- A channel for water.
- The throat or esophagus.
- The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
- The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
- The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.
noun
- A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
- An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
- A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side
- A part of a monocle, a projection off the ring holding the lens, which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket.
- The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
- The spectators of an event, collectively.
- A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
- The production control room.
- The boring trails produced by an insect in wood.
- The, often elevated and in the rear, part of a courtroom where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
- A channel that carries engine oil to parts of the engine that need lubrication, such as the main bearings.
- An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art.
- A level or drive in a mine.
verb
noun
- The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
- The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- bullets; ammunition.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
- The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- A lode.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
- The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- The course of a rope from end to end.
- The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
verb
- To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To direct; to counsel; to instruct
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
- To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To step off base and move towards the next base.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
- To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- Lead climb.
- To produce (with to).
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- To place leads between the lines of.
- To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To have the highest interim score in a game.
- To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
- To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
- To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- To begin a game, round, or trick, with
adj
noun
- an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
- a small lake
- an organization of people or resources that can be shared
- an association of companies for some definite purpose
- any communal combination of funds
- a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
- the combined stakes of the betters
- something resembling a pool of liquid
- any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets
verb
noun
- A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- Vitality.
- A naive person; a simpleton
- Any juice.
- A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
verb
- To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
- To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- To gradually weaken.
- To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- To exhaust the vitality of.
- To pierce with saps.
- To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
noun
- The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
- A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
- A collection of objects lodged together.
- An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
- A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
- A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
- A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- A local chapter of a trade union.
- A den or cave.
- The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
- A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
verb
- To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
- To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
- To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
- To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
- To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
- To drive (an animal) to covert.
- To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
- To firmly fix in a specified position.
- To stay in any place or shelter.
- To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
noun
- a passageway under a curved masonry construction
- a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
- a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet)
- (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it
verb
adj
noun
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- a share of the profits
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- a step on some scale
- a wound made by cutting
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
adj
- separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- fashioned or shaped by cutting
- made neat and tidy by trimming
- (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
- (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
adj
- with parts removed
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- mixed with water
verb
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- make an incision or separation
- discharge from a group
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- make out and issue
- cut and assemble the components of
- intentionally fail to attend
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- give the appearance or impression of
- move (one's fist)
- pass directly and often in haste
- pass through or across
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- stop filming
- make a recording of
- record a performance on (a medium)
- create by duplicating data
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- perform or carry out
- function as a cutting instrument
- allow incision or separation
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- reap or harvest
- fell by sawing; hew
- penetrate injuriously
- refuse to acknowledge
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- have a reducing effect
- cease, stop
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- have grow through the gums
- grow through the gums
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
noun
- An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
- Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
- An amount that fills a container.
- A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
- The filling of a container or area.
- A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
- bass fill
verb
- To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
- To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
- To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
- To become full.
- To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
- To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
- To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- To enter (something), making it full.
- To occupy fully, to take up all of.
- To become pervaded with something.
- To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
noun
- An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
- Something uncovered by archaeological excavation.
- The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
- Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
- The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
- A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
- A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
noun
- A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- Slow, cumulative change.
- In New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to be sold.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Anything driven at random.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
verb
- To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
- To move haphazardly without any destination.
- To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- To drive into heaps.
- To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
noun
- A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
- A cut of the take (money).
- A job or trade.
- A criminal’s special branch of practice.
- A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
- A con job.
- A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
- The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
- A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
- Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
- Corruption in official life.
- A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
- Work; labor requiring effort.
verb
- To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
- To form a graft polymer
- To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
- To work hard.
- To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
- To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
- To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
- To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
noun
- a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel
- a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)
- a column of light (as from a beacon)
- the main (mid) section of a long bone
- obscene terms for penis
- a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator)
- (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
- a revolving rod that transmits power or motion
- the hollow spine of a feather
verb
noun
- An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
- A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
- An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
- A raised causeway.
- Any small body of water.
- Any fence or hedge.
- Any navigable watercourse.
- A beaver's dam.
- Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
- A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
- A non-heterosexual woman.
- Any watercourse.
- A jetty; a pier.
- A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
- A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
verb
noun
- A brick arch or wooden bridge, covered with earth across a drawn or carriage in a water-meadow, just wide enough to allow a hay-wagon to pass over.
- A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.
- Bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry.
- A chine or gully formed by water running over the edge of a cliff; a wooded glen or small ravine opening through the cliff line to the sea.
- A small pool of water.
- A rabbit, especially a juvenile.
- In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
- Any small drain or culvert.
- A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
- A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
- A swelling from a blow; a bump.
adj
noun
- The shaft or thill of a carriage.
- A young herring.
- A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
- The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
- A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
- A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
- A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
- A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
adj
noun
- A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
- A water gate or floodgate.
- An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
- An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
verb
noun
- A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
- A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
- A sowbug.
- A female bear, she-bear.
- A contemptible, often fat woman.
- A female guinea pig.
- A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
- A female pig.
verb
noun
- A structure that bars passage.
- A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
- A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
- The lists in a tournament.
- An obstacle or impediment.
- A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
- A boundary or limit.
verb
noun
- An area of cutover land.
- The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
- The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.
- Any process of quickly replacing a machine so as to minimize downtime.
adj
noun
- A smaller tunnel or well drilled as an auxiliary off a main tunnel or well.
- An alternate train of thought, issue, topic, or activity, that is a deviation or distraction from the topic at hand or central activity, and secondary or subordinate in importance or effectiveness.
- A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction); a railroad siding.
- Any auxiliary railroad track, as differentiated from a siding, that runs adjacent to the main track.
verb
- To deviate briefly from the topic at hand.
- To sideline; to push aside; to divert or distract from, reducing (something) to a secondary or subordinate position.
- To divert (a locomotive or train) on to a lesser used track in order to allow other trains to pass.
- To divert or distract (someone) from a main issue or course of action with an alternate or less relevant topic or activity; or, to use deliberate trickery or sly wordplay when talking to (a person) in order to avoid discussion of a subject.
noun
- A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
- A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
- An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
- A lot of something.
- A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
- A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
- Control, power or mastery over someone or something; a tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
- A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
- A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
- A long time.
- As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
- A handle or other place to grip.
- A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
- Assistance; help or encouragement.
- A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
verb
noun
- The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
- A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
- A pilot light.
- A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
- A guide book for maritime navigation.
- A racing driver.
- An instrument for detecting the compass error.
- A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
- Something serving as a test or trial.
- A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.
- A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
- One who flies a kite.
- A cowcatcher.
- A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
- A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
- A pilot vehicle.
verb
- To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
- To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
- To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
- To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc.)
adj
noun
- A shaft or excavation.
- A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression.
- A racing line, a path across the racing circuit's surface that a racecar will usually track on. (Note: There may be multiple grooves on any particular circuit or segment of circuit)
- The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
- A fixed routine.
- A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
verb
noun
verb
- To excavate downward in successive steps or horizontal slices while positioned above on unbroken ore.
- To trick, deceive or gull.
- To toss or lob with an underhand movement.
adv
adj
- secret; clandestine
- dishonest and sneaky; done in a secret or sly manner
- thrown (etc.) with the hand brought forward and up from below
noun
noun
- A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
- A long-necked medical urinal for men.
- A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
- One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
- Trousers made of such material.
- A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
- A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
- The flesh of a duck used as food.
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- A term of endearment; pet; darling.
- A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
- Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
- A cairn used to mark a trail.
- A playing card with the rank of two.
- Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
verb
- To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
- To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- To enter a place for a short moment.
- To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
- To evade doing something.
- To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- To bow.
noun
- A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
- A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
- A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven; a drove road.
- A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
- The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
- A group of hares.
- A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
verb
English words for 'A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.'
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