English words for 'Alternative form of hearse.'
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- A hearse.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- A hacking blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A tool for chopping.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
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- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- cut away
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
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- A vehicle that serves either as a hearse or as an ambulance.
- A tram or streetcar with separate open and closed compartments, often with the open compartment allowing smoking where the closed compartment does not.
- (US, rail transport) A railroad car containing two or more compartments used for different purposes, transporting passengers and freight.
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- (aerospace) A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.
- (mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.
- (British) An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.
- Clipping of vanguard.
- A wing with which the air is beaten.
- A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
- A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.
- any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
- a camper equipped with living quarters
- the leading units moving at the head of an army
- (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight
- a truck with an enclosed cargo space
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- A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
- a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle
- A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
- A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
- A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
- Alternative form of hearst (“A hind (female deer) in the second or third year of her age”).
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- A light (four-wheeled) carriage used for ceremonial or pleasure purposes.
- a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage
- a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome
- (xiangqi) The rook piece.
- A two-wheeled horse-drawn cart, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare.
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- (Australia) A specialised trailer for carrying long loads such as logs or other large loads such as when moving buildings.
- (Australia) A high wheeled wagon designed to carry lumber suspended under the body of the vehicle.
- (Australia) A two-wheeled open horse drawn carriage; a sulky, trap, road cart or gig.
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- A two-wheeled carriage.
- (nautical) A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
- (Canada, British, regional) A woodlouse.
- A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
- (zoology) A carpenter bee.
- a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects
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- (transitive) To transport (a lorry/truck) on a flatbed railway wagon.
- (transitive, Internet) To utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.
- (transitive) To enter a secured area at the same time along with (someone having authorized access); to tailgate.
- (transitive, Internet) To obtain a wireless internet connection by bringing one's own computer within the range of another's wireless connection without that subscriber's permission or knowledge.
- (transitive) To ride on someone's back or shoulders.
- (ambitransitive) To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.
- (transitive) To carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.
- bring into alignment with
- support on the back and shoulders
- haul by railroad car
- ride on someone's shoulders or back
- haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars
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- (transport) The conversion of a road into a dual carriageway.
- The act of giving birth to twins.
- The act of producing twins.
- (crystallography) The formation of twin crystals.
- (paraphilia) A type of identity transformation where a subject transforms into a copy or clone of someone else.
- The pairing of similar objects (such as towns).
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- (historical) Any of several two- or four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.
- A similar compartment in other vehicles.
- Alternative form of Cab.
- (software, Windows) Clipping of cabinet file (“a compress library archive file”).
- A shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
- (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure.
- (video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
- (cooking, informal, wine) Short for cabernet sauvignon
- A compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.
- Synonym of taxi, a vehicle available for public hire for single journeys.
- a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood
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- A means of transporting, especially a vehicle.
- An act or instance of conveying.
- (law) An instrument transferring title of an object from one person or group of persons to another.
- document effecting a property transfer
- act of transferring property title from one person to another
- the act of moving something from one location to another
- the transmission of information
- something that serves as a means of transportation
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- A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
- (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
- The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
- (education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
- (rail transport) A cast-iron component used on railways to support bullhead rails and secure them to the sleepers.
- (informal, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”).
- An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
- (usually with definite article) The post or position of chairperson.
- An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.
- (often with definite article, also written Chair) Clipping of chairperson.
- a seat for one person, with a support for the back
- the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
- the position of professor
- a particular seat in an orchestra
- an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person
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- (transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
- (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
- (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
- preside over
- act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university
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- (road transport, historical) A two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.
- Originally (music), a performing engagement by a musician or musical group; (by extension, film, television, theater) a job or role for a performer.
- A small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.
- (fishing) Synonym of fishgig or fizgig (“a spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals”).
- (slang, chiefly sciences) Any unit of measurement having the SI prefix giga-.
- (Southern England, by extension) A similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; specifically, a six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
- (informal, computing) Clipping of gigabyte (“one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes”).
- (US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
- (by extension) Any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
- tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain
- a booking for musicians
- small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood
- a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting
- an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
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- (music) To play (a musical instrument) at a gig.
- (transitive) To make a joke, often condescendingly, at the expense of (someone); to make fun of.
- (intransitive) Sometimes followed by it: to ride in a gig (“a two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse”).
- (by extension) To work at any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
- (US, military) To impose a demerit (on someone) for an infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
- (intransitive) To catch or fish with a gig or fizgig.
- (transitive) To spear (fish, etc.) with a gig or fizgig.
- (film, music, television, theater) To engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.
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- (British, historical) A horse-drawn, and then later, motorized omnibus with open sides, and often, no roof.
- (British, informal) A vehicle that is slow, overcrowded, or otherwise undesirable.
- An elaborate production or endeavor involving many people or things.
- a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
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- (colloquial) Any decrepit or noisy vehicle, such as a cart, carriage or train.
- A freight train or, (chiefly British), a passenger train.
- (chiefly US, informal) A rattlesnake.
- Anything that rattles.
- pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken
- a railroad train consisting of freight cars
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- (loosely) Any vehicle which is not a hearse that is used to transport dead bodies for legitimate reasons.
- (strictly) A privately-owned non-emergency vehicle, generally used for scheduled patient transport or the transportation of the deceased to a mortuary.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see private, ambulance.
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- (transport) A tending vehicle
- Synonym of pilot engine / pilot locomotive: A yard/station locomotive engine used to shuttle rail cars around a yard or station
- (Australia, road transport) A vehicle used to warn other road users of the presence of an oversized vehicle/combination
- (transport) A lead vehicle
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pilot, vehicle.
- (production, engineering) A prototype vehicle, initial production vehicle, lead vehicle in a new manufacturing process, first vehicle produced in a new manufactory.
- Synonym of pilot engine / pilot locomotive: The leading engine locomotive in a multiple heading train
- Synonym of pilot engine / pilot locomotive: An engine that runs ahead of a train to clear the route
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- A suburb of Sydney in the Municipality of Burwood and Inner West council area, New South Wales.
- A London borough of Greater London.
- A suburb of Kempton Park, Gauteng province, South Africa.
- A town and local government area (the Shire of Croydon) in northern Queensland.
- A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3149).
- An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Utah.
- A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Charles Sturt, South Australia.
- An eastern suburb of Melbourne in the City of Maroondah, Victoria.
- A census-designated place in Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
- A hamlet in Stone Mills township, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.
- A town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
- (historical) A former airport in Croydon.
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- A type of phaeton carriage.
- A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.
- (figurative) An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.
- (fishing) A vertical pole used in commercial fishing to locate the beginning and end of a long fishing line.
- A swingboat.
- (finance) A glamorous stock that potentially offers high returns to investors.
- a person of great ability and ambition
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- (Ireland, Scotland) A carriage, a horse and cart; (by extension, generally) a car or other vehicle.
- A collar placed on the neck of a conquered person or prisoner to restrain movement.
- Misspelling of yolk.
- Something which oppresses or restrains a person; a burden.
- (glassblowing) A Y-shaped stand used to support a blowpipe or punty while reheating in the glory hole.
- (chiefly US) A frame or convex crosspiece from which a bell is hung.
- (Ireland, informal) A chap, a fellow.
- (Ireland, informal) A miscellaneous object; a gadget.
- (nautical) A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered; in modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks.
- (electronics) The electromagnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a cathode ray tube.
- (chiefly historical) A pair of draught animals, especially oxen, yoked together to pull something.
- (Ancient Rome) Chiefly in pass under the yoke: a raised yoke (sense 1.1), or a symbolic yoke formed from two spears installed upright in the ground with another spear connecting their tops, under which a defeated army was made to march as a sign of subjugation.
- A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.
- (Ireland, slang) A pill of a psychoactive drug.
- (bodybuilding) Well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders.
- (video games) A similar device used as a game controller.
- A pole carried on the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying a pair of buckets, etc., one at each end of the pole; a carrying pole.
- (aviation) Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.
- (chiefly England, especially Kent; also Scotland; historical) An amount of work done with draught animals, lasting about half a day; (by extension) an amount or shift of any work.
- A bond of love, especially marriage; also, a bond of friendship or partnership; an obligation or task borne by two or more people.
- (electrical engineering) Originally, a metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; later, a part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or motor) not surrounded by windings (“wires wound around the cores of electrical transformers”).
- (agriculture) A frame placed on the neck of an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- (clothing) The part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs, and which is often distinguished by having a double thickness of material, or decorative flourishes.
- Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.
- a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke
- a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
- support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end
- an oppressive power
- two items of the same kind
- fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment
- stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team
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- (agriculture) To place a frame on the neck of (an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose) to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- To place a collar on the neck of (a conquered person or prisoner) to restrain movement.
- To join (several draught animals) together with a yoke; also, to fasten a yoke (on one or more draught animals) to pull a cart, plough, etc.; or to attach (a cart, plough, etc.) to a draught animal.
- To be or become connected, linked, or united in a relationship; to have dealings with.
- To put (one's arm or arms) around someone's neck, waist, etc.; also, to surround (someone's neck, waist, etc.) with one's arms.
- To bring into or keep (someone) in bondage or a state of submission; to enslave or subject to confine, to restrain; to oppress, to subjugate.
- To bring (two or more people or things) into a close relationship (often one that is undesired); to connect, to link, to unite.
- To put (something) around someone's neck like a yoke; also, to surround (someone's neck) with something.
- put a yoke on or join with a yoke
- link with or as with a yoke
- become joined or linked together
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- (historical) A four-wheeled open carriage with seats facing each other.
- (US) An informal party or church meeting for purposes of socializing.
- A couch with a curved S-shaped back.
- A bicycle or tricycle for two persons side by side.
- A sociable person.
- a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity
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- (vehicles, agriculture) A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
- A large cushion or pillow, usually cylindrical in shape.
- (military, historical) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
- A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.
- A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
- The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
- The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
- (architecture) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
- A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.
- The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
- (figurative) That which supports or promotes; a catalyst.
- A wide-bladed cold chisel designed to split and shape bricks.
- a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows
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- A hearse.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- A hacking blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A tool for chopping.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
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- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- cut away
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
noun
- A vehicle that serves either as a hearse or as an ambulance.
- A tram or streetcar with separate open and closed compartments, often with the open compartment allowing smoking where the closed compartment does not.
- (US, rail transport) A railroad car containing two or more compartments used for different purposes, transporting passengers and freight.
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- A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
- a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle
- A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
- A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
- A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
- Alternative form of hearst (“A hind (female deer) in the second or third year of her age”).
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- A two-wheeled carriage.
- (nautical) A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
- (Canada, British, regional) A woodlouse.
- A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
- (zoology) A carpenter bee.
- a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects
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- (transport) The conversion of a road into a dual carriageway.
- The act of giving birth to twins.
- The act of producing twins.
- (crystallography) The formation of twin crystals.
- (paraphilia) A type of identity transformation where a subject transforms into a copy or clone of someone else.
- The pairing of similar objects (such as towns).
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- (historical) Any of several two- or four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.
- A similar compartment in other vehicles.
- Alternative form of Cab.
- (software, Windows) Clipping of cabinet file (“a compress library archive file”).
- A shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
- (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure.
- (video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
- (cooking, informal, wine) Short for cabernet sauvignon
- A compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.
- Synonym of taxi, a vehicle available for public hire for single journeys.
- a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood
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- A means of transporting, especially a vehicle.
- An act or instance of conveying.
- (law) An instrument transferring title of an object from one person or group of persons to another.
- document effecting a property transfer
- act of transferring property title from one person to another
- the act of moving something from one location to another
- the transmission of information
- something that serves as a means of transportation
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- A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
- (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
- The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
- (education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
- (rail transport) A cast-iron component used on railways to support bullhead rails and secure them to the sleepers.
- (informal, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”).
- An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
- (usually with definite article) The post or position of chairperson.
- An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.
- (often with definite article, also written Chair) Clipping of chairperson.
- a seat for one person, with a support for the back
- the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
- the position of professor
- a particular seat in an orchestra
- an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person
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- (transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
- (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
- (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
- preside over
- act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university
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- (road transport, historical) A two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.
- Originally (music), a performing engagement by a musician or musical group; (by extension, film, television, theater) a job or role for a performer.
- A small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.
- (fishing) Synonym of fishgig or fizgig (“a spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals”).
- (slang, chiefly sciences) Any unit of measurement having the SI prefix giga-.
- (Southern England, by extension) A similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; specifically, a six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
- (informal, computing) Clipping of gigabyte (“one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes”).
- (US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
- (by extension) Any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
- tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain
- a booking for musicians
- small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood
- a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting
- an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
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- (music) To play (a musical instrument) at a gig.
- (transitive) To make a joke, often condescendingly, at the expense of (someone); to make fun of.
- (intransitive) Sometimes followed by it: to ride in a gig (“a two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse”).
- (by extension) To work at any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
- (US, military) To impose a demerit (on someone) for an infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
- (intransitive) To catch or fish with a gig or fizgig.
- (transitive) To spear (fish, etc.) with a gig or fizgig.
- (film, music, television, theater) To engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.
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- (British, historical) A horse-drawn, and then later, motorized omnibus with open sides, and often, no roof.
- (British, informal) A vehicle that is slow, overcrowded, or otherwise undesirable.
- An elaborate production or endeavor involving many people or things.
- a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
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- (colloquial) Any decrepit or noisy vehicle, such as a cart, carriage or train.
- A freight train or, (chiefly British), a passenger train.
- (chiefly US, informal) A rattlesnake.
- Anything that rattles.
- pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken
- a railroad train consisting of freight cars
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- (loosely) Any vehicle which is not a hearse that is used to transport dead bodies for legitimate reasons.
- (strictly) A privately-owned non-emergency vehicle, generally used for scheduled patient transport or the transportation of the deceased to a mortuary.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see private, ambulance.
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- A light (four-wheeled) carriage used for ceremonial or pleasure purposes.
- a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage
- a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome
- (xiangqi) The rook piece.
- A two-wheeled horse-drawn cart, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare.
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- (transport) A tending vehicle
- Synonym of pilot engine / pilot locomotive: A yard/station locomotive engine used to shuttle rail cars around a yard or station
- (Australia, road transport) A vehicle used to warn other road users of the presence of an oversized vehicle/combination
- (transport) A lead vehicle
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pilot, vehicle.
- (production, engineering) A prototype vehicle, initial production vehicle, lead vehicle in a new manufacturing process, first vehicle produced in a new manufactory.
- Synonym of pilot engine / pilot locomotive: The leading engine locomotive in a multiple heading train
- Synonym of pilot engine / pilot locomotive: An engine that runs ahead of a train to clear the route
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- A suburb of Sydney in the Municipality of Burwood and Inner West council area, New South Wales.
- A London borough of Greater London.
- A suburb of Kempton Park, Gauteng province, South Africa.
- A town and local government area (the Shire of Croydon) in northern Queensland.
- A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3149).
- An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Utah.
- A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Charles Sturt, South Australia.
- An eastern suburb of Melbourne in the City of Maroondah, Victoria.
- A census-designated place in Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
- A hamlet in Stone Mills township, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.
- A town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
- (historical) A former airport in Croydon.
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- A type of phaeton carriage.
- A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.
- (figurative) An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.
- (fishing) A vertical pole used in commercial fishing to locate the beginning and end of a long fishing line.
- A swingboat.
- (finance) A glamorous stock that potentially offers high returns to investors.
- a person of great ability and ambition
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- (Ireland, Scotland) A carriage, a horse and cart; (by extension, generally) a car or other vehicle.
- A collar placed on the neck of a conquered person or prisoner to restrain movement.
- Misspelling of yolk.
- Something which oppresses or restrains a person; a burden.
- (glassblowing) A Y-shaped stand used to support a blowpipe or punty while reheating in the glory hole.
- (chiefly US) A frame or convex crosspiece from which a bell is hung.
- (Ireland, informal) A chap, a fellow.
- (Ireland, informal) A miscellaneous object; a gadget.
- (nautical) A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered; in modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks.
- (electronics) The electromagnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a cathode ray tube.
- (chiefly historical) A pair of draught animals, especially oxen, yoked together to pull something.
- (Ancient Rome) Chiefly in pass under the yoke: a raised yoke (sense 1.1), or a symbolic yoke formed from two spears installed upright in the ground with another spear connecting their tops, under which a defeated army was made to march as a sign of subjugation.
- A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.
- (Ireland, slang) A pill of a psychoactive drug.
- (bodybuilding) Well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders.
- (video games) A similar device used as a game controller.
- A pole carried on the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying a pair of buckets, etc., one at each end of the pole; a carrying pole.
- (aviation) Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.
- (chiefly England, especially Kent; also Scotland; historical) An amount of work done with draught animals, lasting about half a day; (by extension) an amount or shift of any work.
- A bond of love, especially marriage; also, a bond of friendship or partnership; an obligation or task borne by two or more people.
- (electrical engineering) Originally, a metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; later, a part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or motor) not surrounded by windings (“wires wound around the cores of electrical transformers”).
- (agriculture) A frame placed on the neck of an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- (clothing) The part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs, and which is often distinguished by having a double thickness of material, or decorative flourishes.
- Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.
- a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke
- a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
- support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end
- an oppressive power
- two items of the same kind
- fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment
- stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team
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- (agriculture) To place a frame on the neck of (an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose) to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- To place a collar on the neck of (a conquered person or prisoner) to restrain movement.
- To join (several draught animals) together with a yoke; also, to fasten a yoke (on one or more draught animals) to pull a cart, plough, etc.; or to attach (a cart, plough, etc.) to a draught animal.
- To be or become connected, linked, or united in a relationship; to have dealings with.
- To put (one's arm or arms) around someone's neck, waist, etc.; also, to surround (someone's neck, waist, etc.) with one's arms.
- To bring into or keep (someone) in bondage or a state of submission; to enslave or subject to confine, to restrain; to oppress, to subjugate.
- To bring (two or more people or things) into a close relationship (often one that is undesired); to connect, to link, to unite.
- To put (something) around someone's neck like a yoke; also, to surround (someone's neck) with something.
- put a yoke on or join with a yoke
- link with or as with a yoke
- become joined or linked together
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- (historical) A four-wheeled open carriage with seats facing each other.
- (US) An informal party or church meeting for purposes of socializing.
- A couch with a curved S-shaped back.
- A bicycle or tricycle for two persons side by side.
- A sociable person.
- a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity
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- (vehicles, agriculture) A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
- A large cushion or pillow, usually cylindrical in shape.
- (military, historical) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
- A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.
- A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
- The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
- The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
- (architecture) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
- A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.
- The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
- (figurative) That which supports or promotes; a catalyst.
- A wide-bladed cold chisel designed to split and shape bricks.
- a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows
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- (aerospace) A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.
- (mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.
- (British) An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.
- Clipping of vanguard.
- A wing with which the air is beaten.
- A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
- A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.
- any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
- a camper equipped with living quarters
- the leading units moving at the head of an army
- (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight
- a truck with an enclosed cargo space
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- A light (four-wheeled) carriage used for ceremonial or pleasure purposes.
- a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage
- a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome
- (xiangqi) The rook piece.
- A two-wheeled horse-drawn cart, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare.
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- (Australia) A specialised trailer for carrying long loads such as logs or other large loads such as when moving buildings.
- (Australia) A high wheeled wagon designed to carry lumber suspended under the body of the vehicle.
- (Australia) A two-wheeled open horse drawn carriage; a sulky, trap, road cart or gig.
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- (transitive) To transport (a lorry/truck) on a flatbed railway wagon.
- (transitive, Internet) To utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.
- (transitive) To enter a secured area at the same time along with (someone having authorized access); to tailgate.
- (transitive, Internet) To obtain a wireless internet connection by bringing one's own computer within the range of another's wireless connection without that subscriber's permission or knowledge.
- (transitive) To ride on someone's back or shoulders.
- (ambitransitive) To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.
- (transitive) To carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.
- bring into alignment with
- support on the back and shoulders
- haul by railroad car
- ride on someone's shoulders or back
- haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars
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