leadline
corkline
plumb
sealine
reef point
backlead
longline
trolling line
seine
lateral scale
contline
waterplane
heaving line
landing net
floor
feazings
fishing hook
funambulatory
trawl line
trawl
sinker
flossing
ctenoid
setline
lifeline
spiller
gillnet
trotline
uptrace
bungee
keepnet
bungee cord
pikie
snakeline
spring
reef-tackle
bight
freeboard
rail
scare line
fish pound
balk
baitholder
mainstay
wing
gill net
naiant
bite indicator
quivertip
wide-gab
terminal tackle
norsel
punt
ribbonfish
facet
hydrœcium
sea toad
point
swimming
throwline
fin gripper
whiffing
water line
reef line
reefing line
mackerel shark
trawl net
popper
Pomacentridae
dragnet
ventral fin
handline
sed
becket
troll
leech line
family Pomacentridae
spring line
juxtamembrane
purse seine
paxilla
ug
footrope
floater
bankline
heck
rode
snood
trammel
fishhook
slab line
dandy line
Aberdeen
funambulatory
ctenoid
naiant
swimming
juxtamembrane
leadline
corkline
plumb
sealine
reef point
backlead
trolling line
seine
lateral scale
contline
waterplane
heaving line
landing net
floor
feazings
fishing hook
trawl line
trawl
sinker
flossing
setline
lifeline
spiller
trotline
uptrace
bungee
keepnet
bungee cord
pikie
snakeline
spring
reef-tackle
bight
freeboard
scare line
fish pound
balk
baitholder
mainstay
wing
gill net
bite indicator
quivertip
wide-gab
terminal tackle
norsel
ribbonfish
facet
hydrœcium
sea toad
point
throwline
fin gripper
whiffing
water line
reef line
reefing line
mackerel shark
trawl net
popper
Pomacentridae
dragnet
ventral fin
sed
becket
leech line
family Pomacentridae
spring line
purse seine
paxilla
ug
footrope
floater
bankline
heck
rode
snood
trammel
fishhook
slab line
dandy line
Aberdeen
longline
gillnet
rail
punt
handline
troll
noun
- A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
- A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
- The perpendicular direction or position.
adv
adj
- Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of their wicket and should be given out.
- Truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line.
verb
- To attach to a water supply and drain.
- To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
- To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.
- To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
- To work as a plumber.
- To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
- To fall or sink like a plummet.
- To position vertically above or below.
noun
- That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
- A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
- The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
- The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
- A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
- An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
- A dance floor.
- A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- A storey/story of a building.
- Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
- Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
verb
noun
- A line from the diver to a tender at the surface control point.
- A particular crease in the palm.
- A line to which a drowning or falling victim may cling.
- A means or route for transporting indispensable supplies.
- System or structure of vital importance to a community.
- A source of salvation in a crisis.
- On the deck of a boat, a line to which one can attach oneself to stay aboard on rough seas.
noun
noun
noun
- A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- An erection of the penis.
- A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- A race, a lineage.
- a period of political liberalization and democratization
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- A youth.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
adj
verb
- To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
- to descend or originate from.
- To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
- To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- To have something crack.
- To grow taller or longer.
- to catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
- To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- To extend, to curve.
- To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
- To cause to rise from cover.
- To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
- To cause to crack.
- to arise, to come into existence.
- To build, to form the initial curve of.
- To gush, to flow out of the ground.
- To rise from cover.
- To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- To bring forth.
- To sprout, to grow,
- To crack.
- To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- To come upon and flush out
- To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- To come dramatically into view.
- To spend the springtime somewhere
- To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
- to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
- to find or get enough food during springtime.
- To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
- To be born, descend, or originate from
- To appear, to dawn.
- To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
noun
- The vertical distance between the waterline and the uppermost watertight deck of a vessel.
- The distance between a water level and the top of something that contains or restrains it (such as a dam).
- The distance between the top of sea ice and the water level.
- A type of skateboard which simulates the movement of a snowboard when used on a downhill coarse, allowing snowboarding techniques, which has an addition of two centerline casters that extend below the traditional skateboard wheels and bogies.
verb
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- complain bitterly
- enclose with rails
- provide with rails
- separate with a railing
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- lay with rails
- spread negative information about
- criticize severely
noun
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- short for railway
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
noun
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
verb
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To stop, check, block.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
noun
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly
- Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
- A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
- A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
- That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
- A position in several field games on either side of the field.
- The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
- Human arm.
- On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
- A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
- A háček.
verb
noun
verb
- Of a fish, to walk along the seafloor using its fins as limbs.
- To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole.
- To kick a bouncing ball far and high.
- To retreat from one's objective; to abandon an effort one still notionally supports.
- To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc).
- To make the best choice from a set of non-ideal alternatives.
- To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally
- To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.
- To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance.
- To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. (This puts the ball farther from the goal across which the opposing team is attempting to score, so improves the chances of the team punting.)
- To play at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
- To eject; to kick out of a place.
noun
- A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole.
- A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground.
- Gambling, as a pastime, especially betting on horseraces or the dogs. E.g anyone up for a punt on Randwick?
- A highly speculative investment or other commitment.
- A wild guess.
- A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.
- A bet or wager.
- The act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
- An indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
- A point in the game of faro.
- The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
noun
- The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column; a fillet.
- One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
- A smooth circumscribed surface.
- One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.
- Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
- A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
- A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.
- Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion
- One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.
verb
noun
- A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- The difference between two points of the compass.
- A railroad switch.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- An electric power socket.
- A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
verb
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- To repair mortar.
- To direct toward an object; to aim.
- To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- To face in a particular direction.
- To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- To mark with diacritics.
- To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- To indicate a probability of something.
- To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- To sail close to the wind.
- To approximate to the surface; to head.
noun
- the outline of a horizontal section of a vessel, as when floating in the water.
- Any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded.
- Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel. In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several heights; in a sheer plan, they are projected as straight horizontal lines.
- The level at which water meets land along the shore of a body of water.
- The line corresponding to the surface of the water touching any submerged object or body.
noun
- A floating lure designed to splash when the fishing line is twitched.
- A device that pops kernels of corn to produce popcorn.
- Synonym of juice box
- A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
- A stuffed and usually breaded jalapeño.
- Either of a pair of interlocking discs commonly used in place of buttons to fasten clothing, a snap fastener.
- Amyl nitrate.
- One who or that which pops.
- A looner (balloon fetishist) who prefers to burst balloons.
- A capsule of amyl nitrite, a recreational drug used during sex.
noun
verb
- angle with a hook and line drawn through the water
- circulate, move around
- cause to move round and round
- sing the parts of (a round) in succession
- sing loudly and without inhibition
- praise or celebrate in song
- speak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice
noun
- (Scandinavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains
- a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time
- a fisherman's lure that is used in trolling
- angling by drawing a baited line through the water
noun
noun
- A floating rate bond.
- An unaffiliated player.
- One who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted.
- A small suet dumpling put into soup.
- Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that group, and repeatedly shows up to participate in group activities despite attempts to get rid of, or “flush,” said individual.
- A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
- A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.
- One who or that which floats.
- A kind of river mussel (genus Anodonta).
- A book circulated between prisoners that is not part of the official prison library.
- A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour.
- A misstep; a faux pas.
- A piece of faeces that floats.
- A voter who shifts from party to party, especially one whose vote can be purchased.
- A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own.
- A corpse floating in a body of water.
- An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away.
- An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain the female guests.
- A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
- A pie floater.
- A sandal.
- Early layup taken by a player moving towards the rim where, upon release, the ball floats in the air over the top of a defender before dropping softly into the hoop.
noun
- A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
- A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
- The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
- A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.
- A band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in Scotland and northern England by young unmarried women.
verb
noun
- A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
- 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.
- 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
noun
name
- A census-designated place in Florida.
- A community in Nova Scotia.
- An unincorporated community in Ohio County, Indiana.
- An area and town in the Southern District, Hong Kong.
- A city in Idaho.
- An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia.
- A city in eastern Maryland, home of the Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
- A town in Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
- A town in North Carolina.
- A village in Ohio.
- A city, the county seat of Brown County, in northeastern South Dakota, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Inyo County, California.
- A town in Saskatchewan.
- A town in New South Wales.
- A port city in Aberdeen council area, Scotland, on the North Sea.
- A village in Georgia, United States.
- A community in Ontario.
- A suburb of Devonport, in northern Tasmania, Australia.
- A former county in northeastern Scotland; see Aberdeenshire.
- An unincorporated community in Butler County, Kentucky.
- A city in Washington.
- A council area of Scotland including the city, one of 32 created in 1996.
- A city, the county seat of Monroe County, Mississippi.
- A locality in Monroe County, Arkansas.
- A census-designated place in Porter County, Indiana.
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