verge
scapus
scape
shaftlike
fistuliform
cabling
tubule
base
fust
microcylinder
cylindriform
midshaft
lanciform
stale
box
journal
driveshaft
piped
malleate
neckmould
post hanger
pillow block
lanceolation
cantoned
cylindrical
groove
carpophore
cylindric
fluting
spearshaft
flute
boultel
cylindrically
truss
propubic
stambha
minicircular
neck bearing
bell
corbel
pillarlet
cylindricality
lance-shaped
rondelle
lanceolate
shaft
sprints
cylindrical-stemmed
point
singles
dot
tubulation
band
tubies
sew-ups
microcircular
pikeshaft
cylinder
delta
pin
rod-shaped
propulsor
pinionlike
stocklike
rodlike
feather
arced
shafted
arched
cincture
rod
arcuate
crop
arbor
annulet
arciform
kelly
bowed
arching
vasiform
subshaft
royal
trefoiled
spokewise
pikestaff
valvule
snaphead
packing box
stuffing box
intake
pinwheel-shaped
brace
muff
gudgeon
truckle
shaftlike
fistuliform
cylindriform
lanciform
piped
malleate
cantoned
cylindrical
cylindric
propubic
minicircular
lance-shaped
lanceolate
cylindrical-stemmed
microcircular
rod-shaped
pinionlike
stocklike
rodlike
arced
shafted
arched
arcuate
arciform
bowed
arching
vasiform
trefoiled
spokewise
pinwheel-shaped
cylindrically
verge
scapus
scape
cabling
tubule
base
fust
microcylinder
midshaft
stale
box
journal
driveshaft
neckmould
post hanger
pillow block
lanceolation
groove
carpophore
fluting
spearshaft
flute
boultel
truss
stambha
neck bearing
bell
corbel
pillarlet
cylindricality
rondelle
sprints
point
singles
dot
tubulation
band
tubies
sew-ups
pikeshaft
cylinder
delta
pin
propulsor
feather
cincture
rod
crop
arbor
annulet
kelly
subshaft
royal
pikestaff
valvule
snaphead
packing box
stuffing box
intake
brace
muff
gudgeon
truckle
arching
shaft
noun
- The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
- A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
- The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road.
- The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
- An edge or border.
- An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
- The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
- A circumference; a circle; a ring.
- An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
- The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
verb
noun
- The shaft of a column.
- The apophyge of a shaft.
- The cry of the snipe when flushed.
- The snipe itself.
- The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
- A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root.
- The basal part of the ovipositor of an insect, more specifically known as the oviscape.
noun
- The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- A basic but essential component or ingredient.
- Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
- A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
- The smallest kind of cannon.
- A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
- The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
- The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
- The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- freebase cocaine
- A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
- In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
- A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
- A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
- A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
- A number raised to the power of an exponent.
- A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
- Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
- The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mail or other armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
- A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
- A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
- Synonym of radix.
- The game of prisoners' bars.
- The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
- The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
- One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
- The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
adj
- Low in place or position.
- Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
- Not held by honourable service.
- Not considered precious or noble.
- Not classical or correct.
- Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
verb
noun
- The shaft of an arrow, spear, etc.
- A stalemate; a stalemated game.
- One of the rungs on a ladder.
- Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.
- A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.)
- One of the posts or uprights of a ladder.
adj
- Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
- Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.
- No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
- Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
- No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; cliche, hackneyed, dated.
- Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
- Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.
verb
noun
- A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
- A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
- A coffin.
- The rectangle in which the batter stands.
- A small rectangular shelter.
- The vagina.
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
- A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
- Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especiallycommon box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
- One of two specific regions in a promoter.
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- The driver's seat on a horse-drawn coach.
- A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
- A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- A predicament or trap.
- A cell used for solitary confinement.
- A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
- A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
- A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
- Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, the drooping (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black, or ironbark box trees.
- A prison cell.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
- Preceded by the: television.
- A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
- An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
- The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- A blow with the fist.
- A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
- The penalty area.
- Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”)
verb
- To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
- To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
- To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
- To strike with the fists; to punch.
- To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
noun
- The part of a shaft or axle that rests on bearings.
- A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.
- A general journal.
- The amount of land that can be worked in a day.
- A chronological record of changes made to a database or other system; along with a backup or image copy that allows recovery after a failure or reinstatement to a previous time; a log.
- A chronological record of payments or receipts.
- A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
verb
noun
- A shaft or excavation.
- A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression.
- A racing line, a path across the racing circuit's surface that a racecar will usually track on. (Note: There may be multiple grooves on any particular circuit or segment of circuit)
- The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
- A fixed routine.
- A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
verb
noun
noun
- (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)
- (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure
- a framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure
verb
noun
noun
- The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
- An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
- The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
- The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
- Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
- A telephone call.
- A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
- The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
- The bell character.
- Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
- The sounding of a bell as a signal.
- A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
verb
noun
verb
- To equip with a shaft.
- To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
- To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.
noun
- A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine
- A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
- A beam or ray of light.
- Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
- The main axis of a feather.
- Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
- The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
- The chamber of a blast furnace.
- A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
- A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.
- The main cylindrical part of the penis.
- Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, the driveshaft of a motorized vehicle with rear-wheel drive, an axle, etc.
- The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
noun
noun
- a very small circular shape
- a geometric element that has position but no extension
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
- a brief version of the essential meaning of something
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- an instant of time
- the object of an activity
- a V shape
- the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- an outstanding characteristic
- sharp end
- any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
- a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
- the gun muzzle's direction
- a wall socket
- a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
verb
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- be oriented
- direct into a position for use
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- be a signal for or a symptom of
- sail close to the wind
- mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- mark with diacritics
- mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- be positionable in a specified manner
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
- give a point to
- repair the joints of bricks
noun
- In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
- A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
- A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
- A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.
- A part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
- A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
- A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.
- Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
- A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
- A wad of money totaling $1K, held together by a band; (by extension) money
- A marching band.
- A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.
- A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
- A small group of people living in a simple society, contrasted with tribes, chiefdoms, and states.
- A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
- A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
- Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
- That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
- A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).
verb
noun
noun
noun
noun
- Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
- A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
- The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
- A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
- An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
- A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
- The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
- The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
- A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
verb
noun
- A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- 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)
- 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 small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- 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
- One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
- One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
- Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
- A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
- Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
- The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
- A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
- Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
verb
- To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
- To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
- To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
- To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
- To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
- Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
- To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
- To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
- To finely shave or bevel an edge.
- To tread, as a cockerel.
- To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
- To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
- To move softly, like a feather.
noun
- A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
- A rod cell: a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
- A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.
- A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, and some diesel shunters and early electric locomotives.
- A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
- A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a driveshaft.
- Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
- An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern (US) engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5+¹⁄₂ yards.
- The penis.
- A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and ¹⁄₈ to ¹⁄₄ inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.
- A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.
- An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.
- A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
- A Cuisenaire rod.
- A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
- A pistol; a gun.
- A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
verb
noun
- An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- The lashing end of a whip.
- A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- The foliate part of a finial.
- The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
- An entire oxhide.
- A rocky outcrop.
- A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation; a craw.
- A short haircut.
- The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
- The act of cropping.
verb
- To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- To cause to bear a crop.
- To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
- To yield harvest.
- To mow, reap or gather.
- To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
noun
- A small mortar.
- A tuft of beard on the lower lip.
- Bell changes rung on ten bells.
- The fourth tine of an antler's beam.
- An old English gold coin, the rial.
- A standard size of writing paper, measuring 24 by 19 inches.
- In auction bridge, a royal spade.
- A standard size of printing paper, measuring 25 by 20 inches.
- In large sailing ships, square sail over the topgallant sail.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies.
- A stag with twelve points (six on each antler).
- A royal person; a member of a royal family.
adj
- Used as an intensifier.
- Having the air or demeanour of a monarch; illustrious; magnanimous; of more than common size or excellence.
- Of or relating to a monarch or their family.
- In large sailing ships, of a mast right above the topgallant mast and its sails.
- Free-for-all, especially involving multiple combatants.
noun
- The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
- The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
- A tract of land enclosed.
- The people taken into an organisation or establishment at a particular time.
- The process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral.
- The quantity taken in.
- An act or instance of taking in.
- Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.
verb
noun
- The mouth of a shaft.
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (The plural in this sense is unchanged.) In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.
- A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
verb
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
noun
- A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
- A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
- The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
- A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.
- A woman or girl.
- An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
- A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
- Female pubic hair; female genitals (vulva, vagina), like muffin. See Thesaurus:vagina.
- A bird, the whitethroat.
- A muffin.
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noun
- A circular or cylindrical fitting, often made of metal, into which a pin or pintle fits to create a hinge or pivoting joint.
- A small freshwater fish, Gobio gobio, that is native to Eurasia.
- Any of various similar small fish of the family Eleotridae, often used as bait.
- In a vessel with a stern-mounted rudder: the fitting into which the pintle of the rudder fits, allowing the rudder to swing freely.
- Other fish, similar in appearance, principally in families Butidae and Eleotridae, but also in others.
- Cottus bairdii, more widely known as mottled sculpin.
English words for 'The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.'
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