nip
crimp
snaffle
grade
scramp
swoop
pinch
yoink
gaffle
peak
upsnatch
fang
tugging
snatchy
glom
clipsing
apinch
grab
lay hold of
half-inch
trussing
lay hands on
uncus
take hold
clutchy
snatcher
apprehension
stodgery
naggle
kip
yuck
swipe
wrest
sneck
take
fly upon
raff
pawn
picking
catch
seizing
hoardy
grabbing
nab
lockiness
slance
crepitous
tuck
perching
sully
grabber
agatine
clutch
seize
prehend
trammel
capture
piggle
pecking
rip
upsteal
pluck up
snam
pull at
raven
curtailing
claw
collar
pick at
pluck at
pignoration
progue
befang
expression
offshooting
scrimp
fetter
prog
snead
vart
snatch
shrillness
abatelement
ontake
scart
claut
agapistic
nicker
acuate
intertrude
snatchy
trussing
clutchy
hoardy
crepitous
agatine
agapistic
acuate
apinch
nip
grade
fang
tugging
clipsing
uncus
snatcher
apprehension
stodgery
sneck
pawn
picking
catch
seizing
grabbing
lockiness
tuck
perching
grabber
capture
pecking
curtailing
pignoration
expression
offshooting
scrimp
snead
snatch
shrillness
abatelement
ontake
wrest
crimp
snaffle
scramp
swoop
pinch
yoink
gaffle
peak
upsnatch
glom
grab
lay hold of
half-inch
lay hands on
take hold
naggle
kip
yuck
nip
swipe
wrest
take
fly upon
raff
nab
slance
catch
sully
clutch
seize
prehend
trammel
capture
piggle
rip
upsteal
pluck up
snam
pull at
raven
claw
collar
pick at
pluck at
progue
befang
fetter
prog
vart
scart
claut
nicker
intertrude
noun
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- A hamburger.
- A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- Briskly cold weather.
- A playful bite.
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
- A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- A short turn in a rope.
- The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
verb
- To squeeze or pinch.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To taunt.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
verb
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
- to hold using a crimp
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
noun
- One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
- A small hold with little surface area.
- The natural curliness of wool fibres.
- Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- A grip on such a hold.
- A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
- An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
noun
- A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
- A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
- Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
- An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
- In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
- A rating.
- A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
- A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- A level of primary and secondary education.
- A gradian.
- An eyeglass prescription.
- The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
- Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
- The level of the ground.
- A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
verb
- To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
- To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
- To pass from one school grade into the next.
- To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
- To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
- To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
- To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
- To organize in grades.
verb
- To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
- To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
- To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
- To pass with pomp; to sweep.
- To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
- To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
noun
verb
- To seize; to grip; to bite.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- To arrest or capture.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
noun
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- An arrest.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
verb
- To pry; to peep slyly.
- To reach a highest degree or maximum.
- To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
- To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
- To cause to adopt gender-critical or trans-exclusionary views (ellipsis of peak trans).
- To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
- To become sick or wan.
adj
- At the greatest extent; maximum.
- bad or unfortunate.
- Unlucky; unfortunate
- Maximal, quintessential, archetypical; representing the culmination of its type.
- Bad
noun
- The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
- The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
- A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
- The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
- The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
- The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
- The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
- A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
noun
- A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
- That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
- Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
- A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.
- The coil or bend of a rope; (by extension) a noose; a trap.
- a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh
- a long pointed tooth for injecting venom
- Catches on which the coal mining cage rests while cars are being moved on and off.
- The valve of a pump box.
verb
noun
verb
- To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
- To consume something quickly.
- To take the opportunity of.
- To restrain someone; to arrest.
- To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
- To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.
- To quickly collect or retrieve.
noun
- An acquisition by violent or unjust means.
- A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
- A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.
- A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.
- A sound bite.
- A simple card game.
- A sudden snatch at something.
verb
noun
- The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.
- Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
- Anticipation, especially of unfavorable things such as dread or fear or the prospect of something unpleasant in the future.
- The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
- Perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment
- The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
noun
verb
- To snatch; take up hastily; filch
- To conduct oneself; act
- To perform the kip maneuver.
- To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
noun
- The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
- A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
- A very untidy house or room.
- A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
- The leather made from such hide; kip leather.
- A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
- A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
- A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
- A bundle or set of such hides.
- The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
- Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
- A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
- A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
verb
- To steal or snatch.
- To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader.
- To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion.
- To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.
- To grab or bat quickly.
noun
- A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep.
- A rough guess; an estimate or swag.
- An attack, insult or critical remark.
- An act of passing a swipecard through a card reader.
- An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it.
- Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.
- A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
verb
- To seize or capture.
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To remove.
- To go.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To proceed to fill.
- To participate in.
- To let in (water).
- To move into.
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- To assume (a form).
- To go into, through, or along.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- To have sex with.
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To experience or feel.
- To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- An intensifier.
- To require.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To escort or conduct (a person).
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To receive into some relationship.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To catch; to engage.
- To grasp or grip.
- To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- To exact.
- To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- To remove or end by death; to kill.
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- To subtract.
- To bind oneself by.
- To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
- To perform (a role).
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
- To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- To have the intended effect.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To have and use one's recourse to.
noun
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- The or an act of taking.
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
verb
noun
- An instance of pawning something.
- A gallery.
- Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end.
- A pawnshop; pawnbroker.
- The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
- The most numerous chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess, each side starts with eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only diagonally or en passant.
verb
noun
- Something picked or pulled out.
- Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
- Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
- The act of making a choice; selection.
- The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.
- The removal of defects from electrotype plates.
- A gathering to pick fruit.
- Dabbing in stoneworking.
noun
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
verb
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
verb
noun
- An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.
- The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- The beat of a drum.
- A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
- A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
- A curled position.
- A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
- The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail.
verb
- To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
- To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden.
- To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
- To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- To eat; to consume.
- To conceal one’s penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.
- To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
- To full, as cloth.
- To fit neatly.
verb
- To seize, as though with claws.
- To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.
- To hatch.
- To grip or grasp tightly.
- To win in a 1vX (one versus X) situation.
adj
noun
- The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
- An important or critical situation.
- A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
- A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
- A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
- A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
- A group or bunch (of people or things).
- Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
- A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
- The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
- A difficult maneuver
verb
- take hold of; grab
- take or capture by force
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- hook by a pull on the line
- affect
- capture the attention or imagination of
verb
verb
noun
- A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
- A net for confining a woman's hair.
- A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
- A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
- Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
- A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc.
- An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.
- A beam compass.
verb
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- succeed in representing or expressing something intangible
- attract; cause to be enamored
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
noun
- the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property
- a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field
- any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle
- the act of taking of a person by force
- the removal of an opponent's piece from the chess board
verb
- To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
- To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
- To steal; to rip off.
- To fart.
- To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
- To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
- To surf extremely well.
- To take a "hit" of marijuana.
- To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
- To move quickly and destructively.
- To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
noun
- A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
- A type of strong, rough tide or current.
- Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- A handful of unthreshed grain.
- A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
- A tear (in paper, etc.).
- A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
- A hit (dose) of marijuana.
- Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
- A wicker basket for fish.
- A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
- Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
- A joyride.
verb
- To use the claws to seize, to grip.
- To scratch or to tear at.
- To use the claws to climb.
- To perform a claw catch.
- To move with one's fingertips.
noun
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
- The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
verb
- To seize, capture or detain.
- To bind in conversation.
- To arrest.
- To place a collar on, to fit with one.
- To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
- To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.
- To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
- To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
noun
- A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
- A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
- A collar beam.
- An arrest.
- The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem
- A similar detachable item.
- A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a lower limit on loss, constructed through taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices.
- A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.
- Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
- A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
- The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.
- A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
- A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
- A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
- A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.
- Any encircling device or structure.
- An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
- A ring or cincture.
- A chain worn around the neck.
noun
- the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing
- the feelings expressed on a person's face
- expression without words
- the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions
- a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations
- the style of expressing yourself
- a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement
- (genetics) the process of expressing a gene
- a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
noun
- A quick grab or catch.
- A short period.
- A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- The vulva.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
verb
noun
verb
- To snatch or steal.
- To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
- To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.
noun
- A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.
- Pound sterling.
- The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
- nigger.
- A snigger or suppressed laugh.
- Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.
- A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
English words for 'A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching'
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