shoot
fly
suckhole
gurges
needle loom
jigger
picker
pendulation
shuttle driver
mantrip
knuckleboom
airsled
car
glossina
gondola
bombard
pressure cabin
wing loading
studdle
cage
breather
spreader
island
rice mill
woof
yardsnap
portainer
hangar
manlift
people pod
guide rope
shuttle
birdie
jib
gibbet
Eastern-rigged
supertrawler
carrier
transpositor
skyhook
craneway
backwing
loper
smartlet
polyspast
brake wheel
sandhiller
travelling crane
mobile elevating work platform
turbolift
lift car
pitprop
sprag
cabin
ufocal
trundle
aerial device
elevating work platform
jibhead
wedge
parakite
Beech
pick
drogue parachute
nib
hood
bastion
bonnet
header
armor
soam
headframe
desrick
flaptrack
coffin fly
derrick
dirigible
raker
tow
landscraper
prime mover
hurricane bow
fill
pilothouse
garage
trolley
rover
drag
porthole
vessel
gallows-bitts
handplane
hurly
cargo liner
windmill
wind tunnel
Irish buggy
Eastern-rigged
shoot
fly
suckhole
gurges
needle loom
jigger
picker
pendulation
shuttle driver
mantrip
knuckleboom
airsled
car
glossina
gondola
bombard
pressure cabin
wing loading
studdle
cage
breather
spreader
island
rice mill
woof
yardsnap
portainer
hangar
manlift
people pod
guide rope
shuttle
birdie
jib
gibbet
supertrawler
carrier
transpositor
skyhook
craneway
backwing
loper
smartlet
polyspast
brake wheel
sandhiller
travelling crane
mobile elevating work platform
turbolift
lift car
pitprop
sprag
cabin
ufocal
trundle
aerial device
elevating work platform
jibhead
wedge
parakite
Beech
pick
drogue parachute
nib
hood
bastion
bonnet
header
armor
soam
headframe
desrick
flaptrack
coffin fly
derrick
dirigible
raker
tow
landscraper
prime mover
hurricane bow
fill
pilothouse
garage
trolley
rover
drag
porthole
vessel
gallows-bitts
handplane
hurly
cargo liner
windmill
wind tunnel
Irish buggy
hangar
noun
- A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- A photography session.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
verb
- To begin to speak.
- To move very quickly and suddenly.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- To grow; to advance.
- To shoot the moon.
- To ejaculate.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- To photograph.
- To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To make the stated score.
- To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- To throw dice.
- To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.ᵂ
- To dismiss or do away with.
- To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- To lunge.
- To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- To film.
- To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- To fire (a projectile).
- To send to someone.
- To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- To go over or pass quickly through.
intj
noun
- A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
- A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
- A wing.
- A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
- Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
- The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
- A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
- Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
- A butterfly (combination of four options).
- An act of flying.
- One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
- The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
- A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
- The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
- waste cotton
- Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
- A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
- An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
- A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
- Any similar, but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly or butterfly.
- That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
- In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch..
- The free edge of a flag.
- The horizontal length of a flag.
- A fly ball.
- The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
- Related terms: flyman
verb
- To be in the winged adult stage.
- To hunt with a hawk.
- To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
- To be accepted, come about or work out.
- To proceed with great success.
- To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
- To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
- To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
- To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
- To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
adj
noun
- A warehouse crane.
- A vagina.
- Jig, Jigger, Jigabou, derogatory terms meaning the same as American Nigger.
- A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.
- A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.
- A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
- A measure of 1 ½ fluid ounces of liquor.
- A drink of whisky.
- A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
- A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
- A lock pick.
- The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
- An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.
- An illegal distillery.
- A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1 ½ fluid ounces, the other typically 1 fluid ounce.
- One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
- A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
- A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
- A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.
- A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
- A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
- A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
- A jiggermast.
- The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.
verb
noun
- The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
- One who removes defects from and finishes electrotype plates.
- Any user interface control that selects something.
- A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
- A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
- A worker in an Amazon warehouse, responsible for retrieving ordered items.
- A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
noun
- the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant
- a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad
- where passengers ride up and down
- a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway
noun
noun
- A bombardon.
- A bombardment.
- a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
verb
- To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
- To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
- To continuously attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
- To continuously send or direct (at someone)
noun
- The passenger compartment of a lift.
- The catcher's wire mask.
- A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
- In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.
- An automobile.
- The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
- The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
- An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
- Something that hinders freedom.
- The goal.
- An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
- A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
- A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
verb
- To immobilize an artificial horizon.
- To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
- To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
- To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
noun
- The moving platform of a container crane.
- An object or person who spreads.
- A knife or spatula used to distribute a substance such as butter or jelly.
- A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.
- A horizontal athwartships spar attached to the mast of a sailboat in order to extend the shrouds away from the mast.
- A member of a cracking group who distributes warez.
- A spacer or device for keeping two objects apart.
- A device used to spread bulk material.
noun
- A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
- A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
- A roundabout; A traffic circle.
- A bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side.
- An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
- A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; A peninsula; A half-island.
- A traffic island.
- A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.
- An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
verb
noun
- A piece of portable equipment consisting of a large cage, bucket, or basket at the end of an extensible boom, and used by workers to reach inaccessible places.
- A permanently installed device used in place of an elevator, consisting of a series of handle-and-step groups attached to a vertical conveyor, and used to transport people, typically in an industrial environment.
noun
- A mobile cabin that attaches to an aircraft or helicopter.
- Any of various cars for carrying a small number of people as part of a public transportation system.
- A small chamber for a single person.
- A bus-like compartment carried by a lift truck, proposed in the late 1950s for transporting people and luggage from the airport terminal to an aircraft.
- A driverless electric car for transporting a single person.
noun
- A shuttlecock.
- The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.
- A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
- A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
- A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
- Any other item that moves repeatedly back and forth between two positions, possibly transporting something else with it between those points (such as, in chemistry, a molecular shuttle).
- Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
verb
noun
- A shuttlecock.
- An electromagnetic signal generated from within an electronic device.
- A certain rude gesture in some countries, formed with the middle finger.
- A man's penis.
- A (little) bird; a birdling; a child's term for a bird.
- The completion of a hole one stroke below par.
- Aw, that's a cute little birdie. Is it a budgie?
- A certain rude gesture in some countries, formed with the middle and index fingers.
verb
noun
- The projecting arm of a crane.
- An object that is used for performing tricks while skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, in-line skating, or biking. These objects are usually found in a terrain park or skate park.
- Crystal meth.
- The mouth, sometimes particularly the tongue, underlip, or tooth.
- One who jibs or balks, refusing to continue forward.
- Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.
- A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.
- A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast.
- A stationary condition; a standstill.
verb
noun
- A movable piece in a planetary gear train.
- A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog.
- A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
- A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms.
- A liquid or gas used as a medium for another substance.
- A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction.
- A certified airline.
- A charge carrier.
- A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
- A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
- A person or company in the business of shipping freight.
- A carrier pigeon.
- A person or object that carries someone or something else.
- A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.
noun
noun
noun
- A spool of golden thread.
- A low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed.
- The sound made by an object being moved on wheels.
- A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
- A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
verb
- To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily.
- To transport (something or someone) using an object on wheels, especially one that is pushed.
- To roll or revolve; to roll along.
- To move heavily (on wheels).
- To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along.
- To wheel or roll (an object on wheels), especially by pushing, often slowly or heavily.
- To move, often heavily or clumsily.
noun
- A wedge tornado.
- A háček.
- The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- A quantity of money.
- The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
verb
- To support or secure using a wedge.
- To force or drive with a wedge.
- Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- To cleave with a wedge.
- To shape into a wedge.
- To force into a narrow gap.
- To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
noun
- The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- Pasture; feed, for animals.
- A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A screen.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A pickoff.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- A good defensive play by an infielder.
- An interception.
- An anchor.
- That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
verb
- To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- To screen.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
noun
- The shaft of a wagon.
- A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
- The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
- A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
- Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
- One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
- The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
verb
noun
- A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
- Person wearing a hoodie.
- A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree.
- One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).)
- In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood)
- An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
- A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
- A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
- The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
- An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).
- Gangster, thug.
- A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
- The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.
- Neighborhood.
verb
adj
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
noun
- a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window
- brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
- a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters
- (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
- a headlong jump (or fall)
noun
- A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.
- A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
- Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.
- A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.
- A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body.
- The naturally occurring surface of pebbles, rocks or boulders that line the bed of a waterway or beach and provide protection against erosion.
verb
noun
noun
- Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
- The short, coarse, less desirable fibres separated by hackling from the finer longer fibres (line).
- The act of towing and the condition of being towed.
- A rope or cable used in towing.
- Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
- A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.
- An untwisted bundle of fibres such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.
verb
noun
- A military or heavy construction vehicle.
- A person or thing that is seminal and influential.
- The front part of a semi-trailer type truck, i.e., the tractor to which the trailer part attaches.
- The initial agent that is the cause of all things.
- A machine, such as a water wheel or steam engine, that receives and modifies energy as supplied by some natural source or fuel and transforms it into mechanical work
noun
- One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
- An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- 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
- A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.
- A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
- A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
- A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.
- A petrol filling station.
- A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
verb
noun
- A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
- A streetcar or light train.
- A soapbox car.
- A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.
- A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
- A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.
- A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs.
- A handcar.
- A hand truck.
- A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
verb
noun
- A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
- A position that is one of three of a team's followers, who follow the ball around the ground. Formerly a position for short players, rovers in professional leagues are frequently over 183 cm (6').
- A pirate.
- A randomly selected target.
- A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.
- A remotely-operated vehicle; ROV
- A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a hybrid of those of a cornerback, safety and linebacker.
- One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.
- A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
- The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball.
- A pirate ship.
noun
- A pulled load.
- A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- A prison sentence of three months.
- A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- Street, as in 'main drag'.
- A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- Witch house music.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
- The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A mailcoach.
- Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
verb
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- To hit or kick off target.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- To fish with a dragnet.
noun
- A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
- Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.
- A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
- A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
- A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
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English words for 'A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.'
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