claviform
nailing
clawlike
lath nail
spikenail
claw-shaped
staple
gaff
stub nail
naily
screw nail
claw
clawmark
rail spike
spike
bec de corbin
tacket
toggle
nail
lacquerista
brad
spill
nailhead
nail-bitingly
gaffle
fishbolt
bullen-nail
rosehead
minigrinder
slug
ingot
besague
D-ring
unguiform
hex head bolt
rod-shaped
chiplike
bolthead
meteor
rodlike
sixpenny nail
bolt
carpenter's hammer
fingerish
claw hammer
head
nigged
corkscrew
nut and bolt
fourpenny nail
hammer-shaped
spoon
clawhammer
hot stamp
fingerlike
digitate
tack
clawy
blaster
metallic
metalled
fingerlet
treenail
China cap
dolabriform
wrench
chippy
tack hammer
clutchback
tenpenny nail
chink
vibratory pile hammer
flooring nailer
spanner
vibratory hammer
pin
malleiform
authentication
fishtail
sickle
boltlike
rhabdoid
rowel
screw key
toe ring
malleate
comb
stove bolt
spider
eightpenny nail
garnish bolt
fuller
claviform
clawlike
claw-shaped
naily
unguiform
rod-shaped
chiplike
rodlike
fingerish
nigged
hammer-shaped
fingerlike
digitate
clawy
metallic
metalled
dolabriform
malleiform
sickle
boltlike
rhabdoid
malleate
nail-bitingly
nailing
lath nail
spikenail
staple
gaff
stub nail
screw nail
claw
clawmark
rail spike
spike
bec de corbin
tacket
toggle
nail
lacquerista
brad
spill
nailhead
gaffle
fishbolt
bullen-nail
rosehead
minigrinder
slug
ingot
besague
D-ring
hex head bolt
bolthead
meteor
sixpenny nail
bolt
carpenter's hammer
claw hammer
head
corkscrew
nut and bolt
fourpenny nail
spoon
clawhammer
hot stamp
tack
blaster
fingerlet
treenail
China cap
wrench
chippy
tack hammer
clutchback
tenpenny nail
chink
vibratory pile hammer
flooring nailer
spanner
vibratory hammer
pin
authentication
fishtail
rowel
screw key
toe ring
comb
stove bolt
spider
eightpenny nail
garnish bolt
fuller
spike
noun
- a short U-shaped wire nail
- (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
- a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn
- material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
- paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together
adj
verb
noun
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
- The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
verb
noun
- Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- A sort of very large nail.
- A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
- A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
- An adolescent male deer.
- A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
- A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
- A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
- Spike lavender.
- The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
- An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- Synonym of endpin.
- A sharp peak in a graph.
- A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
- A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
- The casual ward of a workhouse.
- An ear of corn or grain.
verb
- To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
- To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
- To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
- To set or furnish with spikes.
- To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
- To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.
- To inject a drug with a syringe.
- To fix on a spike.
- To increase sharply.
- To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
- To add a small amount of one substance to another.
noun
- A fastener that has flaps that align vertically to penetrate a surface and then spread out to secure the fastener in position, e.g. a molly bolt.
- A wooden or metal pin, short rod, crosspiece or similar, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope or chain to be secured to any other loop, ring, or bight, e.g. a sea painter to a lifeboat.
- A rod-shaped button bound with slack to the fabric.
- A horizontal piece of wood that is placed on a door, flat, or other wooden structure, but is not on one of the edges of the structure.
- An appliance for transmitting force at right angles to its direction.
- A loop of webbing or a dowel affixed to the end of the steering/brake lines of a parachute providing the pilot with a means of control.
- A toggle switch.
verb
noun
- A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.
- The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
- The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
- A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The Exchange, Bristol.
- An archaic English unit of length equivalent to ¹⁄₂₀ of an ell or ¹⁄₁₆ of a yard (2+¹⁄₄ inches or 5.715 cm).
- The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
- The claw of a bird or other animal.
verb
- To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
- To expose as a sham.
- To catch.
- Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To spike, as a cannon.
- To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
- To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
- To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
- To drive a nail.
- To nail down: to make certain, or confirm.
noun
- A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
- A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
verb
noun
- A metallic rod or pin.
- A fall or stumble.
- One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
- A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.
- A mess of something that has been dropped.
- The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
verb
- To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- To drop something that was intended to be caught.
- To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
- To reveal information to an uninformed party.
- To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
- To come undone.
- To spread out or fall out, as above.
- To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
- To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
noun
noun
- A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
- A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
- A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
- The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
- A hard blow, usually with the fist.
- A black screen.
- A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
- A ship that sails slowly.
- The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
- A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
- Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
- An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
- A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
- A hitchhiking commuter.
- A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
- A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
- A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
verb
- To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
- To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
- To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
- To make sluggish.
- To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
- To load with a slug or slugs.
adj
adj
- Resembling or characteristic of a chip (fragment of stone etc.).
- Resembling or characteristic of a chip (thin, crisp, baked piece of vegetable).
- Resembling or characteristic of a chip (damaged area of a surface where a small piece has broken off).
- Resembling or characteristic of a chip (wedge of fried potato).
- Resembling or characteristic of a chip (electronic circuit fabricated on substrate).
noun
- A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.
- An atmospheric or meteorological phenomenon. These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), luminous meteors (rainbows and aurora), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning and shooting stars).
- A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.
- A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or falling star.
- Any short-lived source of wonderment.
verb
adj
noun
noun
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
- A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
verb
- To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
- To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- To escape.
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
- To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- To swallow food without chewing it.
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
adv
noun
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- The uppermost part of a valley.
- The antlers of a deer.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- The headstock of a guitar.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- The top edge of a sail.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The toilet of a ship.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- Headway; progress.
- Mind; one's own thoughts.
- Topic; subject.
- The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- The glans penis.
- The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- A headmaster or headmistress.
- Denouement; crisis.
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- Leader; chief; mastermind.
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- An individual person.
- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- The bow of a vessel.
- A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- The population of game.
- The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- A single animal.
- The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- A headland.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
verb
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- To form a head.
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- To move in a specified direction.
- To check or restrain.
- To remove the head from a fish.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- To set on the head.
adj
noun
- The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew.
- An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.
- A type of inversion used in roller coasters.
- A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side.
verb
- To extract information or consent from someone.
- To cause something to twist or move in a spiral path or shape.
- To wind or twist in the manner of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting.
adj
noun
- A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.
- An oar.
- An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
- A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
- A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
- An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
- A spoon excavator.
- A metaphoric unit of finite physical and mental energy available for daily activities, especially in the context of living with chronic illness or disability.
verb
- To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
- To fish with a concave spoon bait.
- To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.
- To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
- To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.
noun
- a short nail with a sharp point and a large head
- the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails
- gear for a horse
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- (nautical) the act of changing tack
- sailing a zigzag course
verb
noun
noun
- A chip or dent in something metallic.
- A narrow beam or patch of light admitted by such an opening.
- A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
- A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
- A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
verb
- To crack; to open.
- To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
- To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
- To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
- To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
noun
- A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
- The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
- A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
- A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
- Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
- The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
- A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- A thing of small value; a trifle.
- A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
- A pinball machine.
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
- The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
- A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
- A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
- Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
- The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
- A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
- A leg.
verb
- To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
- To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
- To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
- To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
- To pin down (someone).
- To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
adj
noun
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
verb
- To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
noun
- A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
- A soft-hackle fly.
- A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
- The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
- A spider graph or spider tree.
- A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
- Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
- Heroin.
- A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension; a bridge.
- Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
- A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
- A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
- A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
- A spindly person.
- Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
verb
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