English words for 'One who piles something'
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noun
- A person who bunches.
- (manufacturing) A machine that twists strands together during the manufacture of metal wire; a strander.
- An illegitimate supplier of laboratory animals who obtains the animals by kidnapping pets or illegally trapping strays.
- (military, RAF, World War II) A ground-based radio transmitter, configured within a system to guide aircraft to their allocated airfields.
- (electronics, physics) A circuit that causes electrons or other charged particles in a particle beam to group together.
noun
- A person who gathers things.
- a person who gathers
- (glassblowing) A worker who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing.
- A person who primarily gathers in a hunter-gatherer social system.
- (textiles) An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
- (business) A person who collects rent or taxes.
- a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
noun
- a person who collects things
- A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
- the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes
- a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
- a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth
- (electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
- A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
- A person who is employed to collect payments.
- A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers
- (historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
- A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
noun
- The act of heaping or piling up.
- The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
- A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
- extravagant exaggeration
- the act of making something more noticeable than usual
- making to seem more important than it really is
noun
noun
- (countable) One who assembles items.
- (nanotechnology, countable) A nanodevice capable of assembling nanodevices, possibly including copies of itself, according to a plan.
- (computer languages, informal, chiefly uncountable) Assembly language.
- (programming, countable) A program that reads source code written in assembly language and produces executable machine code, possibly together with information needed by linkers, debuggers and other tools.
- a program to convert assembly language into machine language
noun
- A mass of something piled up or collected.
- The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
- (UK, education, historical, uncountable) The practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.
- The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
- (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
- (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
- (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
- (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation
- the act of accumulating
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- several things grouped together or considered as a whole
noun
- One who crams or stuffs.
- A book used for accelerated study in preparation for an examination.
- A teacher who aids such a student.
- A school whose speciality is helping students to pass certain examinations.
- A student who studies hard for an examination.
- a textbook designed for cramming
- a teacher who is paid to cram students for examinations
- a student who crams
- a special school where students are crammed
noun
- The act of packing something.
- The materials used to pack something.
- The industry that produces such material.
- (by extension) The manner in which a person or product is promoted.
- a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution
- the business of packing
- material used to make packages
verb
noun
- A person who collates.
- (computing) A program or algorithm that collates.
- A police officer who maintains criminal records and analyzes them for intelligence.
- (computing, historical) A machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards.
- a machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards.
noun
- A person with an interest in disused or discarded objects.
- (informal, US, Canada, derogatory) A beat-up automobile.
- A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.
- (slang) Synonym of junkie (“drug addict”).
noun
- a laborer who builds up a stack or pile
- Any person or thing that stacks.
- A worker who stacks the shelves in a supermarket.
- An output bin in a document feeding or punch card machine (contrast with hopper).
- A participant in sport stacking.
- (informal) A person who collects precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
- Any device allowing items to be stacked.
verb
verb
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To stop, check, block; to hinder, impede.
- To leave or make balks in.
- (intransitive, sports) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To refuse suddenly.
- refuse to comply
noun
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- 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".
- (billiards) 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.
- (UK dialectal) A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
- (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
noun
- A person who fills or makes sacks or bags.
- A person who sacks or plunders.
- A person who sacks or fires (dismisses someone from a job or position).
- Alternative form of saker (cannon)
- A machine or device for filling sacks.
- (American football) A player who sacks (tackles the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass).
- Synonym of bagger (“retail employee who bags customers' purchases”).
- (baseball, softball, in combination) A baseman (player positioned at or near a base).
noun
- One who packs boxes.
- A letterboxer.
- Attributive form of boxers (“boxer shorts”).
- The person running a game of two-up.
- A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
- A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
- A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.
- a workman employed to pack things into containers
- someone who fights with their fists for sport
- a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany
noun
- Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
- someone who collects things that have been discarded by others
- An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.
- (chemistry) A substance used to remove impurities from the air or from a solution.
- (UK, Ireland, historical) A child employed to pick up loose cotton from the floor in a cotton mill.
- a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities
- any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter
verb
adv
noun
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- a car that is old and unreliable
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
noun
- One who places or arranges something.
- (gambling, in combination) A horse, etc. that finishes in a particular place in a race.
- A place where the superficial detritus is washed for gold, etc.
- (by extension) Any place holding treasures.
- (slang) One who deals in stolen goods; a fence.
- (ethology, sheep, Australia, New Zealand) A lamb whose mother has died and which has transferred its attachment to an object, such as a bush or rock, in the locality.
- an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral
adj
noun
noun
noun
- A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation
- (Australia) A packhorse.
- Clipping of meatpacker.
- (New Zealand) An object inserted to hold a space open for the purpose of alignment; a spacer or shim.
- (LGBTQ) An artificial penis or similar object worn by a drag king, trans man, etc., inside the trousers.
- (US) A ring of packing or a special device to render gastight and watertight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well.
- (computing) A software program that compresses code or data.
- (Nigeria) A dustpan.
- a hiker who wears a backpack
- a wholesaler in the meat-packing business
- a workman employed to pack things into containers
noun
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- A list or league
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- (historical, electrochemistry) A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity).
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- A mass formed in layers.
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A battery consisting of repeated units of alternating types of metal; voltaic pile.
- (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- (slang) A large amount of money.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
- (transitive) To add something to a great number.
- (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
- (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- (intransitive) To form a pile or heap.
- (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- arrange in stacks
- press tightly together or cram
- place or lay as if in a pile
noun
- someone who collects things that have been discarded by others
- an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker
- long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call
- (slang) A fan or member of Newcastle United F.C.
- (military, firearms) The third circle on a target, between the inner and outer.
- (attributively) A pattern resembling the pied plumage of a magpie.
- (figurative) Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as hoarding or stealing objects.
- A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen, in the family Artamidae.
- One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.
verb
noun
- someone who collects things that have been discarded by others
- any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects
- (informal, somewhat derogatory) One who collects or hoards, especially unnecessary objects.
- Any of several small North American rodents, of the genus Neotoma, that have bushy tails.
noun
- The act of heaping up.
- (ironworking) The process of building up, heating, and working fagots or piles to form bars, etc.
- A structural support comprising a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
verb
noun
- A person, company, or thing who bottles, especially in bulk.
- A Punchman's assistant who collects money ("bottle") from the audience.
- A truck used for transporting bottled goods in crates.
- (British, slang) A person or group that fails to meet expectations, especially one prone to such failure. Frequently used in reference to the Cork senior hurlers.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, often with "real") a person or thing that is excellent or admirable.
- a manufacturer that makes and bottles beverages
noun
- a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)
- a tool for gutting fish
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
- (comics) A space between comic strip panels.
- Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
- (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
- A ditch along the side of a road.
- (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
- A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
- (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
- One who or that which guts.
- A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
- (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
- The notional locus of things, acts, or events that are distasteful, ill-bred, or morally questionable.
- (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
- (British) A drainage channel.
- A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
verb
- provide with gutters
- flow in small streams
- wear or cut gutters into
- burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker
- (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
- To flow or stream; to form gutters.
- (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
- (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
- (of a small flame, or poetically, of eyes) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
- (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
- (intransitive, uncommon) To worsen considerably.
adj
noun
- One who puts or places.
- (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
- A shot-putter.
- (mining) One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.
- (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.
- the iron normally used on the putting green
- a golfer who is putting
verb
noun
- A person who bunches.
- (manufacturing) A machine that twists strands together during the manufacture of metal wire; a strander.
- An illegitimate supplier of laboratory animals who obtains the animals by kidnapping pets or illegally trapping strays.
- (military, RAF, World War II) A ground-based radio transmitter, configured within a system to guide aircraft to their allocated airfields.
- (electronics, physics) A circuit that causes electrons or other charged particles in a particle beam to group together.
noun
- A person who gathers things.
- a person who gathers
- (glassblowing) A worker who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing.
- A person who primarily gathers in a hunter-gatherer social system.
- (textiles) An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
- (business) A person who collects rent or taxes.
- a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
noun
- a person who collects things
- A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
- the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes
- a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
- a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth
- (electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
- A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
- A person who is employed to collect payments.
- A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers
- (historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
- A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
noun
- The act of heaping or piling up.
- The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
- A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
- extravagant exaggeration
- the act of making something more noticeable than usual
- making to seem more important than it really is
noun
noun
- (countable) One who assembles items.
- (nanotechnology, countable) A nanodevice capable of assembling nanodevices, possibly including copies of itself, according to a plan.
- (computer languages, informal, chiefly uncountable) Assembly language.
- (programming, countable) A program that reads source code written in assembly language and produces executable machine code, possibly together with information needed by linkers, debuggers and other tools.
- a program to convert assembly language into machine language
noun
- A mass of something piled up or collected.
- The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
- (UK, education, historical, uncountable) The practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.
- The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
- (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
- (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
- (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
- (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation
- the act of accumulating
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- several things grouped together or considered as a whole
noun
- One who crams or stuffs.
- A book used for accelerated study in preparation for an examination.
- A teacher who aids such a student.
- A school whose speciality is helping students to pass certain examinations.
- A student who studies hard for an examination.
- a textbook designed for cramming
- a teacher who is paid to cram students for examinations
- a student who crams
- a special school where students are crammed
noun
- The act of packing something.
- The materials used to pack something.
- The industry that produces such material.
- (by extension) The manner in which a person or product is promoted.
- a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution
- the business of packing
- material used to make packages
verb
noun
- A person who collates.
- (computing) A program or algorithm that collates.
- A police officer who maintains criminal records and analyzes them for intelligence.
- (computing, historical) A machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards.
- a machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards.
noun
- A person with an interest in disused or discarded objects.
- (informal, US, Canada, derogatory) A beat-up automobile.
- A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.
- (slang) Synonym of junkie (“drug addict”).
noun
- a laborer who builds up a stack or pile
- Any person or thing that stacks.
- A worker who stacks the shelves in a supermarket.
- An output bin in a document feeding or punch card machine (contrast with hopper).
- A participant in sport stacking.
- (informal) A person who collects precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
- Any device allowing items to be stacked.
noun
- A person who fills or makes sacks or bags.
- A person who sacks or plunders.
- A person who sacks or fires (dismisses someone from a job or position).
- Alternative form of saker (cannon)
- A machine or device for filling sacks.
- (American football) A player who sacks (tackles the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass).
- Synonym of bagger (“retail employee who bags customers' purchases”).
- (baseball, softball, in combination) A baseman (player positioned at or near a base).
noun
- One who packs boxes.
- A letterboxer.
- Attributive form of boxers (“boxer shorts”).
- The person running a game of two-up.
- A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
- A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
- A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.
- a workman employed to pack things into containers
- someone who fights with their fists for sport
- a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany
noun
- Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
- someone who collects things that have been discarded by others
- An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.
- (chemistry) A substance used to remove impurities from the air or from a solution.
- (UK, Ireland, historical) A child employed to pick up loose cotton from the floor in a cotton mill.
- a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities
- any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter
noun
- One who places or arranges something.
- (gambling, in combination) A horse, etc. that finishes in a particular place in a race.
- A place where the superficial detritus is washed for gold, etc.
- (by extension) Any place holding treasures.
- (slang) One who deals in stolen goods; a fence.
- (ethology, sheep, Australia, New Zealand) A lamb whose mother has died and which has transferred its attachment to an object, such as a bush or rock, in the locality.
- an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral
adj
noun
noun
noun
- A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation
- (Australia) A packhorse.
- Clipping of meatpacker.
- (New Zealand) An object inserted to hold a space open for the purpose of alignment; a spacer or shim.
- (LGBTQ) An artificial penis or similar object worn by a drag king, trans man, etc., inside the trousers.
- (US) A ring of packing or a special device to render gastight and watertight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well.
- (computing) A software program that compresses code or data.
- (Nigeria) A dustpan.
- a hiker who wears a backpack
- a wholesaler in the meat-packing business
- a workman employed to pack things into containers
noun
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- A list or league
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- (historical, electrochemistry) A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity).
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- A mass formed in layers.
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A battery consisting of repeated units of alternating types of metal; voltaic pile.
- (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- (slang) A large amount of money.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
- (transitive) To add something to a great number.
- (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
- (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- (intransitive) To form a pile or heap.
- (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- arrange in stacks
- press tightly together or cram
- place or lay as if in a pile
noun
- someone who collects things that have been discarded by others
- an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker
- long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call
- (slang) A fan or member of Newcastle United F.C.
- (military, firearms) The third circle on a target, between the inner and outer.
- (attributively) A pattern resembling the pied plumage of a magpie.
- (figurative) Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as hoarding or stealing objects.
- A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen, in the family Artamidae.
- One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.
verb
noun
- someone who collects things that have been discarded by others
- any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects
- (informal, somewhat derogatory) One who collects or hoards, especially unnecessary objects.
- Any of several small North American rodents, of the genus Neotoma, that have bushy tails.
noun
- The act of heaping up.
- (ironworking) The process of building up, heating, and working fagots or piles to form bars, etc.
- A structural support comprising a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
verb
noun
- A person, company, or thing who bottles, especially in bulk.
- A Punchman's assistant who collects money ("bottle") from the audience.
- A truck used for transporting bottled goods in crates.
- (British, slang) A person or group that fails to meet expectations, especially one prone to such failure. Frequently used in reference to the Cork senior hurlers.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, often with "real") a person or thing that is excellent or admirable.
- a manufacturer that makes and bottles beverages
noun
- a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)
- a tool for gutting fish
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
- (comics) A space between comic strip panels.
- Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
- (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
- A ditch along the side of a road.
- (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
- A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
- (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
- One who or that which guts.
- A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
- (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
- The notional locus of things, acts, or events that are distasteful, ill-bred, or morally questionable.
- (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
- (British) A drainage channel.
- A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
verb
- provide with gutters
- flow in small streams
- wear or cut gutters into
- burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker
- (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
- To flow or stream; to form gutters.
- (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
- (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
- (of a small flame, or poetically, of eyes) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
- (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
- (intransitive, uncommon) To worsen considerably.
noun
- One who puts or places.
- (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
- A shot-putter.
- (mining) One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.
- (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.
- the iron normally used on the putting green
- a golfer who is putting
verb
verb
verb
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To stop, check, block; to hinder, impede.
- To leave or make balks in.
- (intransitive, sports) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To refuse suddenly.
- refuse to comply
noun
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- 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".
- (billiards) 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.
- (UK dialectal) A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
- (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
verb
adv
noun
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- a car that is old and unreliable
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
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