punch
pitprop
sprag
studdle
spar
gambrel
curb roof
gambrel-roofed
bonnet
mansard
surface
roofed
skyfarm
stay
barling
bec de corbin
cog
headgear
abat-vent
mansarded
smoke pole
roofing
silver mine
erection
concave
peen
polehead
propstick
property
tilt
airfoil
horsehead
shore
wattle
rising lark
apron
land mine
lever
roofward
lucam
pyramid roof
cupola
cresting
rostrum
lead
topcloth
scaffoldy
soapbox
draw
dais
hogger pump
Lucerne hammer
podium
pulpit
towered
stonebreaker
stump
trig point
ambo
trunnion
sile
cradle
grass
spire
queen
pikestaff
leapfrog
stoop
stob
sit
slate
quant
hammer-shaped
Claymore
drogue
belvedere
saddleback
handbarrow
nigged
tack hammer
clawmark
maul
tup
perched
neb
acroterium
eggcrate
sledge
sledgehammer
spirewise
summercastle
impact driver
marteline
siege tower
crandall
ferril
gambrel-roofed
roofed
stay
mansarded
scaffoldy
towered
hammer-shaped
nigged
perched
spirewise
roofward
spirewise
punch
pitprop
sprag
studdle
spar
gambrel
curb roof
bonnet
mansard
skyfarm
barling
bec de corbin
cog
headgear
abat-vent
smoke pole
roofing
silver mine
erection
concave
peen
polehead
propstick
property
tilt
airfoil
horsehead
shore
wattle
rising lark
apron
land mine
lever
lucam
pyramid roof
cupola
cresting
rostrum
lead
topcloth
soapbox
dais
hogger pump
Lucerne hammer
podium
pulpit
stonebreaker
stump
trig point
ambo
trunnion
sile
cradle
grass
queen
pikestaff
stoop
sit
slate
quant
drogue
belvedere
saddleback
handbarrow
tack hammer
clawmark
maul
tup
neb
acroterium
eggcrate
sledge
sledgehammer
summercastle
impact driver
marteline
siege tower
crandall
ferril
surface
draw
spire
leapfrog
stob
noun
- A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
- A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.
- A hole or opening created with a punch.
- Impact.
- Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genus Dodona of Asia.
- An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
- Power, strength, energy.
- A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface.
- A hit or strike with one's fist.
- A blow from something other than the fist.
- A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.
verb
- To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.
- To strike with one's fist.
- To thrust against; to poke.
- To enter (information) on a device or system.
- To herd.
- To mark a ticket.
- To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc)
- To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means.
- In winemaking, to perform pigeage: to stamp down grape skins that float to the surface during fermentation.
- To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force.
noun
- A rafter of a roof.
- Any crystal with readily discernible faces.
- A thick pole or piece of wood.
- A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
- A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
- Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
- Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
verb
noun
noun
- A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.
- A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.
- The second stomach of a ruminant.
- A ducat, an old Scottish coin worth 40 shillings.
- A traditional Scottish woollen brimless cap; a bunnet.
- A small defence work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.
- A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.
- In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.
- A mushroom of the genus Mycena.
- A type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin.
- The polishing head of a power buffer, often made of wool.
- The hinged cover over the engine of a motor car; a hood.
- A length of canvas attached to a fore-and-aft sail to increase the pulling power.
verb
adj
adj
- (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
- Steep; ascending.
- Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
- Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
adv
verb
- To live; reside
- To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To hold the attention of.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- To tack; put on the other tack.
noun
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- A corset.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A prop; a support.
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
noun
- One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
- A tooth on a gear.
- A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
- A small fishing boat.
- A trick or deception; a falsehood.
- A clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length.
- An unimportant individual in a greater system.
- A gear; a cogwheel.
verb
- To furnish with a cog or cogs.
- To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
- To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
- Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
- To plagiarize.
- To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
- To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
noun
- The vault of the sky.
- A playing card made concave for use in cheating.
- One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
- An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
- An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
- An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
- A concave surface or curve.
verb
adj
noun
- The top of a flagpole.
- An emblem, usually made of metal, that tops a pole which is carried by the steward or secretary of a rural British club or friendly society.
- A housing for wires that is attached to the top of a telephone pole or similar pole carrying power lines.
- A tadpole.
- The top of any pole.
- The front portion of the pole that attaches a coach or wagon to the team of horses that pulls it.
- The portion of a mast above the crossbar that holds the sail, which sometimes support a flag or topsail.
noun
- A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
- A script, book, screenplay, or the like that is on the market or has been bought for commercial production as a stage play, movie, or the like.
- Real estate; the business of selling houses.
- The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
- An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class.
- Something that is owned.
- A produced stage play, movie, or the like.
- A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
- An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
- An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
noun
- A tilt hammer.
- An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
- A jousting contest. (countable)
- A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
- Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
- The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
- A thrust, as with a lance.
- A slope or inclination.
- The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
verb
- To slope or incline (something); to slant.
- To point or thrust (a weapon).
- To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
- To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
- To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
- To be at an angle.
- To point or thrust a weapon at.
- To cover with a tilt, or awning.
noun
- A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
- A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.
- Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.
- A barbel of a fish.
- This plant seen as the national emblem of Australia.
- Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia, or their bark, used in tanning.
- A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.
- A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
verb
noun
noun
- The cap of a cannon; a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry.
- The sides of a tree's canopy.
- The portion of a stage extending towards the audience beyond the proscenium arch in a theatre.
- The paved area below the yellow line on a race track.
- The loading, parking or roadway area immediately beside a railway station
- A removable cover for the passengers' feet and legs in an open horse carriage.
- The short cassock ordinarily worn by English bishops.
- An article of clothing worn over the front of the torso and/or legs for protection from spills; also historically worn by Freemasons and as part of women's fashion.
- The spreading end of a driveway.
- A large decal toward the bottom of a pinball table.
- The paved area of an airport, especially the area where aircraft park away from a terminal
verb
noun
- A mine that is placed on land and designed to explode when stepped upon or touched.
- 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.
noun
- A levee.
- A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
- An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
- A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
- A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).
- Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.
verb
adv
noun
- A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- 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 distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- 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 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.)
adj
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
verb
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
noun
- a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
- the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
- the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed
- (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket
verb
noun
- A shaft, held by a bearing, at each end or side of a rotatable object.
- A similar rotational bearing comprising a rotating arc or ring sliding in the groove of a stationary arc, used in machinery to allow a workpiece to be moved relative to a fixed tool.
- A similar rotational bearing used in automotive suspensions.
- One of the short stubby bearings on either side of a cannon; a gudgeon.
noun
- A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.
- A column; pillar.
- A sieve.
- A young herring.
- The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.
- A strainer or colander for liquids
- A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.
- That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth.
verb
noun
- A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
- A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
- Infancy, or very early life.
- A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
- A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
- A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
- A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
- A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
- The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
- A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
- A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
- A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
- A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.
- An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
- A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
verb
- To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.
- To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
- To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
- To rock (a baby to sleep).
- To contain in or as if in a cradle.
- To nurse or train in infancy.
- To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
- To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.
- To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
noun
- The surface of a mine.
- Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
- Marijuana.
- Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
- The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
- An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
- A lawn.
- Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
- Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
- Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
verb
verb
- To furnish with a spire.
- to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
- To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
noun
- A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
- One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
- A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
- A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
- A spiral.
- The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
- The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
- Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
- A sharp or tapering point.
noun
- A type of large roofing slate.
- A queen apple.
- An adult female cat capable of breeding.
- A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
- A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.
- Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
- The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
- A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
- s around the queen (sense 6) of the hive, marked with a pink dot]] A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- A queen scallop.
- An excellent woman.
- A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
- An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
- The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
- A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
- A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
- Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
- A female monarch.
verb
noun
- A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
- The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
- A stooping, bent position of the body.
- A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout.
- The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
- An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
verb
- To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
- To cause to incline downward; to slant.
- Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
- To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
- To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
noun
- Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine.
- An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.
verb
- To babysit.
- After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.
- To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
- To be a member of a deliberative body.
- Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
- To occupy a given position.
- To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
- To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
- To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
- To accommodate in seats; to seat.
- To move oneself into such a position.
- To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
- To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
- To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
- To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
- To be adjusted; to fit.
- To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
noun
- A roofing-tile made of slate.
- An artificial material resembling slate and used for the same purposes.
- A list of affiliated candidates for an election.
- A record of money owed.
- A tablet computer.
- A thin plate of any material; a flake.
- A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.
- The bluish-grey colour of most slate.
- A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools.
verb
- To cover with slate.
- To schedule.
- To criticise harshly.
- To set a dog upon (a person).
- To anticipate or strongly expect.
- To nominate, appoint, or designate.
adj
noun
- A conical basket or device used variously as a target for gunnery practice, and as a docking point for aerial refuelling.
- A conical parachute used as a brake for some kinds of aircraft, or as a means of extracting and deploying a larger parachute, or to slow a rapidly-moving vehicle to a speed where it can safely deploy a larger parachute.
- A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.
- A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to.
- A wind cone.
verb
- To transport small loads along the coastline to larger ports, where they can be added to the cargo of larger ships that make longer journeys.
- To harpoon or spear (a whale) with a weapon that has a drogue attached.
- To use a drogue with.
- To act as a drogue, slowing down and stabilizing a drifting object.
noun
- A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.
- A breed of pig which is black with a pink saddle-shaped marking.
- An anticline.
- A coping that is thicker in the middle than at the edges.
- The bird Philesturnus carunculatis.
- The harp seal.
- The great black-backed gull.
- The larva of the bombycid moth.
- A raccoon oyster.
- A variety of domestic goose.
- A saddle-shaped ridge forming a shallow pass between two peaks.
- Any of various creatures having a saddle-shaped marking on the back.
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