pay off
bear down on
bear down upon
asail
hullock
sail close to the wind
double
overboard
flying jib
spring the luff
weatherboard
head sea
go by the board
tippy
crank
cranky
saily
leg
tender
change of tack
goose wing
overside
weather
tack
roll
square sail
close-winded
round to
weatherly
gain the wind
navigate
fall off
sailer
scoon
pilot
alee
wing-and-wing
foot
go overboard
sailcraft
point of sail
sailingly
dock
dinghy
luff
saillike
nautics
broach to
by sail
martingale
broad reach
seaway
dolphin striker
submarine
brace aback
wind
gybe
sailboating
afloat
bark
clubhaul
board
shipboard
barque
close-hauled
stunsail
fore-and-after
haul
yachtist
yachtsperson
above-water
ketch
bottom out
knockdown
shipwards
America's Cup
nosedive
underwater
barquette
coast
voyageable
blanketing
surface ship
point
ride
sailboat
bear up
gaff
poop
mule
weather roll
skullcup
reaching
asail
tippy
crank
cranky
saily
tender
close-winded
weatherly
saillike
above-water
underwater
voyageable
overboard
overside
alee
wing-and-wing
sailingly
afloat
close-hauled
shipwards
hullock
flying jib
weatherboard
head sea
leg
change of tack
goose wing
tack
square sail
sailer
foot
sailcraft
point of sail
dinghy
luff
nautics
martingale
broad reach
seaway
dolphin striker
submarine
sailboating
bark
board
shipboard
barque
stunsail
fore-and-after
yachtist
yachtsperson
ketch
knockdown
America's Cup
nosedive
barquette
blanketing
surface ship
sailboat
gaff
mule
weather roll
skullcup
reaching
pay off
bear down on
bear down upon
sail close to the wind
double
spring the luff
go by the board
overboard
weather
roll
round to
gain the wind
navigate
fall off
scoon
pilot
tack
go overboard
dock
broach to
brace aback
wind
gybe
clubhaul
haul
bottom out
coast
point
ride
bear up
poop
verb
- To sail around (a headland or other point).
- To get a two-base hit.
- To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).
- To serve a second role or have a second purpose.
- To turn sharply, following a winding course.
- To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
- To fold over so as to make two folds.
- To operate as a double agent.
- To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
- (often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
- To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).
- To double down.
- To multiply by two.
- (sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
- To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
- To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
- To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
- To repeat exactly; copy.
- To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
adv
adj
- Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Having two aspects; ambiguous.
- False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
- Stooping; bent over.
- Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- Of twice the quantity.
- Of time, twice as fast.
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
- Designed for two users.
- Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
noun
- The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
- A two-base hit.
- A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
- Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
- A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
- Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”)
- A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race.
- A double-precision floating-point number.
- A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
- A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- A double feast.
- A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
- A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
- Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
- A drink with two portions of alcohol.
- A hit on this ring.
- A boat for two scullers.
- The feat of scoring twice in one game.
- The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
- A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
adj
noun
- a bad-tempered person
- a whimsically eccentric person
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
verb
adj
noun
- (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
- a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
- a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
- one of the supports for a piece of furniture
- a part of a forked or branching shape
- the limb of an animal used for food
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg
- a section or portion of a journey or course
adj
- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- hurting
- young and immature
- having or displaying warmth or affection
- (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
noun
- something that can be used as an official medium of payment
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
- car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
adj
verb
noun
- A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
- The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
- The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
- A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
- Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
- A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
- The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
- That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
- A small nail with a flat head.
- A stain; a tache.
- That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
- A direction or course of action, especially a new one.
- Food generally; fare, especially of the bread kind.
- A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
- A thumbtack.
- The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
verb
- To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
- To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
- To add something as an extra item.
- To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
- to tack (something) onto (something)
- To place the tack on a horse; often paired with "up".
verb
- To travel by sailing.
- To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
- To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
- To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
- To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
- To leave or begin a journey.
- To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
- To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
- To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
- To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.
- To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
- To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
- To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
- To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
- To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
- To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- to move and cause an effect on someone
- To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
- To throw dice.
- To generate a random number.
- To have a rolling aspect.
- To create a customized version of.
- To (cause to) film.
- To utter with an alveolar trill.
- To beat up; to assault.
- To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
- To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
- To compete, especially with vigor.
- To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
- To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
- To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- To turn over and over.
- To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
- To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
- To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
- To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
- To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
- To betray secrets.
noun
- A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
- A heavy, reverberatory sound.
- A swagger or rolling gait.
- A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
- A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
- A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
- The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
- Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
- A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
- That which is rolled up.
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
- An official or public document; a register; a record.
- An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
- A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
verb
- To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
- To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course.
- To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism.
- To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle.
- To find a way through a difficult situation or process.
verb
- To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
- To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
- To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
- To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc.)
adj
- Being a vehicle to warn other road users of the presence of an oversize vehicle/combination.
- Used to control or activate another device.
- Made or used as a test or demonstration of capability.
noun
- A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
- A pilot light.
- A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
- A guide book for maritime navigation.
- A racing driver.
- An instrument for detecting the compass error.
- A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
- Something serving as a test or trial.
- The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
- A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.
- A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
- One who flies a kite.
- A cowcatcher.
- A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
- A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
- A pilot vehicle.
noun
- The bottom edge of a sail.
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- Travel by walking.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
- The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
- A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
- The globular lower domain of a protein.
- The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- Foot soldiers; infantry.
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
verb
verb
- To land at a harbour.
- To join two moving items.
- To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
- To engage in the sexual practice of docking (where the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant).
- To cut off, bar, or destroy.
- To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
- To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
- To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
- To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
- To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
noun
- The place of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
- A section of a hotel or restaurant.
- A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
- Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
- A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
- A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
- The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
- A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
- An act of docking; joining two things together.
- Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
- A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
- The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
- A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
- The body of water between two piers.
prep_phrase
noun
- A stowaway on a seagoing vessel.
- A kind of sandwich made in a long loaf of bread.
- Any submarine plant or animal.
- A boat that can go underwater.
- A pitch delivered with an underhand motion.
adj
- Existing, relating to, or made for use beneath the sea.
- Hidden or undisclosed.
- Of a pitch, thrown with the hand lower than the elbow.
verb
verb
- To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
- To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- To perceive or follow by scent.
- To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
- To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
- To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
- To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
- To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
- To travel in a way that is not straight.
- To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
- To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
- To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
noun
- Flatus.
- Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)
- The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
- The ability to breathe easily.
- Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
- A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
- One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
- Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
- Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- A bird, the dotterel.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
verb
- Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel.
- Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other.
- To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind.
noun
- A sudden shift of a sail's angle, or a sudden change in the direction that a vessel is sailing in.
- A manoeuvre in which the stern of a sailing vessel crosses the wind, typically resulting in the forceful and sudden sweep of the boom from one side of the vessel to the other.
- A sudden change in approach or direction; vacillation.
adv
- In a vessel at sea or on another body of water.
- Floating.
- Covered with water (bearing floating objects).
- Floating in the air; flowing freely; not tied, braided, etc.
- Having enough money to continue to operate; (of a private individual, family, etc.) able to pay one's expenses, able to keep one's head above water.
- Covered, overspread (with or in something).
noun
- A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
- The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
- The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
- Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
- A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
- The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
- An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
- The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
- Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
verb
- To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
- To speak sharply.
- To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
- To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
- To strip the bark from; to peel.
- To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
- To girdle.
noun
- The side of a ship.
- A rebound.
- The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
- A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
- Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
- The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
- A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
- A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
- A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
- Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
- A level or stage having a particular layout.
- A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
verb
- To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
- To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
- To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
- To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
- To cover with boards or boarding.
- To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
- Antonyms: alight, disembark
- To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
- To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
noun
verb
- To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
- To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
- Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
- To haul ass (“go fast”).
- To drag, to pull, to tug.
- Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
- To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
- To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
- To draw or pull something heavy.
noun
- An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
- The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
- A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
- Four goals scored by one player in a game.
- An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
noun
- The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
- An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
- A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.
- A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly.
- a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
- A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
- The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
- An overwhelming blow.
verb
adj
adv
adj
- Beneath the water line of a vessel.
- In difficulty, especially financially.
- Of an option, having a strike price higher (call options) or lower (put options) than the current market price of the underlying asset or financial product; for example, an option to buy shares at $20 when the current market price is $15.
- Beneath the surface of the water; of or pertaining to the region beneath the water surface.
- Having negative equity; owing more on an asset than its market value.
adv
noun
- A type of lure which lies beneath the water surface.
- Underlying water or body of water, for example in an aquifer or the deep ocean.
verb
verb
- To sail along a coast.
- To glide along without adding energy; to allow a vehicle to continue moving forward after disengaging the engine or ceasing to apply motive power.
- To make a minimal effort; to continue to do something in a routine way, without initiative or effort.
- To slide downhill; to slide on a sled upon snow or ice.
noun
noun
- A manoeuvre in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails.
- The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.
- Cloth for making blankets.
- A layer of something that covers like a blanket.
- Provision of a layer under the trackbed to prevent clay subsoil and water being forced to the surface by the weight of trains.
verb
- To sail close to the wind.
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- To repair mortar.
- To direct toward an object; to aim.
- To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- To face in a particular direction.
- To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- To mark with diacritics.
- To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- To indicate a probability of something.
- To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- To approximate to the surface; to head.
noun
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- The difference between two points of the compass.
- A railroad switch.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- An electric power socket.
- A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
verb
- Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
- To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
- To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
- To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
- To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
- To rely, depend (on).
- In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
- To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
- To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
- To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
- To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
- To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
- To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
- Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
- To traverse by riding.
- To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
- To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
- Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
noun
- A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
- A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
- An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
- An instance of riding.
- A vehicle.
- An act of sexual intercourse
- In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.
- A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
- A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
verb
- To embark a ship over the stern.
- To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
- To defecate.
- To tire, exhaust. Often used with out.
noun
- The stern of a ship.
- A stupid or ineffectual person.
- The poop deck.
- The sound of a steam engine's whistle, typically low-pitched.
- Fecal matter; feces.
- A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.
intj
noun
- A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.
- The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
- A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
- Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
- The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
- A stubborn person.
- A kind of cotton-spinning machine.
- A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.
- A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.
- A person paid to smuggle drugs.
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noun
English words for 'To fall to leeward, as the head of a vessel under sail.'
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