piggle
holk
stock up
grub
dig
rout
unearth
unbury
upwrench
naggle
effodient
deracinate
unplant
sprangle
delve
shovel
grub out
entrench
bespit
grub up
disinhume
outwrench
indelve
root up
scart
pile
balk
root
overstrew
disroot
grade
slob
claw
tunnel
dib
eradicate
burrow
dig out
dig up
scratch
undig
snaffle
dyke
pluck up
bedaggle
scrab
straighten up
soil
claut
outscrape
scrabbly
fossorial
draw
desquamate
dawk
uproot
extirpate
root out
gunk
mine
rake
trencher
uppluck
pill
excavate
mire
stank
unroot
tosh
dirty
scraffle
swoop
nip
trench
fodient
plow up
fossorious
up-plow
rub
soak away
spade
gunk up
mattock
van
scoop up
crepitous
wemble
soss
becarve
upheap
underroot
effodient
scrabbly
fossorial
fodient
fossorious
crepitous
grade
trencher
nip
piggle
holk
stock up
grub
dig
rout
unearth
unbury
upwrench
naggle
deracinate
unplant
sprangle
delve
shovel
grub out
entrench
bespit
grub up
disinhume
outwrench
indelve
root up
scart
pile
balk
root
overstrew
disroot
slob
claw
tunnel
dib
eradicate
burrow
dig out
dig up
scratch
undig
snaffle
dyke
pluck up
bedaggle
scrab
straighten up
soil
claut
outscrape
draw
desquamate
dawk
uproot
extirpate
root out
gunk
mine
rake
uppluck
pill
excavate
mire
stank
unroot
tosh
dirty
scraffle
swoop
trench
plow up
up-plow
rub
soak away
spade
gunk up
mattock
van
scoop up
wemble
soss
becarve
upheap
underroot
verb
- To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
- To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- To thrust; to poke.
noun
- Digoxin.
- A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- A thrust; a poke.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- An innings.
verb
- Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
- To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
- Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
- Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
- Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
- Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
- Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
- To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
- Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
- Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
- To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
- To snore, especially loudly.
- To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
- Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
noun
- A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
- The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
- A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
- The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.
- An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.
- A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
- A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
- A group of disorganized things.
adj
verb
verb
- To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
- To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
- To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.
- To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
- To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or upon.
- To become completely absorbed in and fully accept one's beliefs, even in the face of evidence against it and refusing to be reasoned with.
verb
verb
- To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- To add something to a great number.
- (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
noun
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- A list or league
- A mass formed in layers.
- A large amount of money.
- 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 beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.
- 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.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- 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 hemorrhoid.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
verb
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To stop, check, block.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
noun
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
verb
- To turn up or dig with the snout.
- To be firmly fixed; to be established.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- To sexually penetrate.
- To get root or privileged access on a computer system or mobile phone, often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- To root out; to abolish.
- To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
noun
- The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- A sexual partner.
- The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- A zero (of an equation).
- The primary source; origin.
- The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- A root vegetable.
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- A penis, especially the base of a penis.
noun
- A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
- A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
- Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
- An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
- In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
- A rating.
- A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
- A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- A level of primary and secondary education.
- A gradian.
- An eyeglass prescription.
- The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
- Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
- The level of the ground.
- A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
verb
- To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
- To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
- To pass from one school grade into the next.
- To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
- To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
- To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
- To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
- To organize in grades.
verb
- To dig or excavate with the claws.
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- to get such scratches
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
adj
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
noun
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Money.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- A scratch wig.
- A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
- The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- An injury.
verb
- To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
- To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
- To scour a watercourse.
- To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
- To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
- To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
noun
- An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.
- A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
- An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
- A raised causeway.
- Any small body of water.
- Any fence or hedge.
- Any navigable watercourse.
- A beaver's dam.
- Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
- A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
- A non-heterosexual woman.
- Any watercourse.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
- A jetty; a pier.
- A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
- A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
verb
- To become dirty or soiled.
- To make invalid, to ruin.
- To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (due to such food having the effect of purging them) to purge by feeding on green food.
- To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
- To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
- To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
- To make dirty.
noun
- The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
- Country or territory.
- Dung; compost; manure.
- The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
- That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
- A bag containing soiled items.
- Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
- A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
- A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
- A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
adj
- Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
- Rough, poor and uncultured.
- Sparse and scraggly.
- Scribbly.
- Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
- Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
- Stunted.
- Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
- Impoverished, hardscrabble
- Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
- Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
- Having a rough texture; scratchy.
verb
- move or pull so as to cover or uncover something
- cause to move by pulling
- get or derive
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- make, formulate, or derive in the mind
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface
- take liquid out of a container or well
- give a description of
- select or take in from a given group or region
- elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.
- suck in or take (air)
- move or go steadily or gradually
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- choose at random
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition
- to obtain a liquid from somewhere
- write a legal document or paper
- engage in drawing
- allow a draft
- require a specified depth for floating
- pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
- take in, also metaphorically
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- thread on or as if on a string
- stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
- pass over, across, or through
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- shrink
- reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die
- steep; pass through a strainer
- remove the entrails of
- flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching
- cause to localize at one point
noun
- a gully that is shallower than a ravine
- an entertainer who attracts large audiences
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
- a playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- (American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage
- poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer
- the act of drawing or hauling something
verb
verb
- To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- To pick one's nose.
- To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
- To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
pron
- Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
- Used predicatively.
- Used substantively, with an implied noun.
- Used otherwise not directly before the possessed noun.
noun
- Any source of wealth or resources.
- A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
verb
- To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To search through (thoroughly).
- To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
noun
- A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A lot, plenty.
- A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- The act of raking.
- In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
- A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
verb
- To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
- To peel; to make by removing the skin.
- To medicate with pills.
- Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
- To form into the shape of a pill.
- To persuade or convince someone of something.
noun
- A bullet (projectile).
- An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.
- A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
- A rounded rectangle indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.
- A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
- Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
- A comical or entertaining person.
- A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing. Colloquially known as a bobble, fuzzball, or lint ball.
- Hyponyms: tablet, caplet, capsule, lozenge
- Such an object that is of solid constitution (usually of compressed, bonded powder) rather than a capsule (with a shell containing loose powder or liquid).
- Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
verb
- To stumble or lurch.
- To surround or guard.
- To seal off an area of the mine in which a fire has started.
- To trample.
- To pack in tightly.
- To stink; to smell bad.
- To dam up; to block the flow of water or other liquid.
- To cause to smell bad.
- simple past tense of stink
- To cause (the udders) to become blocked and inflamed from lack of milking.
noun
- A stink; a foul smell.
- Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.
- A dam or mound to stop water.
adj
verb
- To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
- To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
- To search for valuables in sewers
adv
noun
- Easy bowling
- Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash
- Used as a form of address.
- Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.
- A bath or foot pan
adj
verb
- To become soiled.
- To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
- To make (something) dirty.
- To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
adj
- Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk.
- Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
- Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
- Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
- Having the undercarriage or flaps in the down position.
- Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
- Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
- Sleety; gusty; stormy.
- Of an alcoholic beverage, especially a cocktail or mixed drink: served with the juice of olives.
- Of color, discolored by impurities.
- Spreading harmful radiation over a wide area.
- Of food, indulgent in an unhealthy way.
- That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
- Out of tune.
- Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
adv
verb
- To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
- To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
- To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
- To pass with pomp; to sweep.
- To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
- To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
noun
noun
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- A hamburger.
- A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- Briskly cold weather.
- A playful bite.
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
- A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- A short turn in a rope.
- The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
verb
- To squeeze or pinch.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To taunt.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
verb
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
noun
verb
- To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
- To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
- To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- To touch the jack with the bowl.
- To be rubbed against something.
- To rub something against (a second thing).
- To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
noun
verb
- To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
- To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
- Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived from party van).
noun
- A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.
- A shovel used in cleansing ore.
- 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, longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.
- A wing with which the air is beaten.
- An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.
verb
English words for 'To dig or uproot; to scrape.'
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