bowse
bouse
jeer
challenge
overtackle
tap-tackle
sling
tackleable
bring the wood
tackle
garnet
chunk
lob
pitch
truck
hen
hoy
sock
hork
cast
peg
peck
wing
pick
dispossess
ride
linebacking
elbowing
start in on
runner
lamp
skin
rob
wrestingly
quarterback
snap swivel
shanghai
high tackle
handball
mastigophoric
elbow
flat
sway
defensively
monkey wheel
wicketkeep
high challenge
tee up
rough
run
buck
colporate
outtackle
halfback
hilt
backhead
drift
ward
backfoot
spear tackle
go into one's shell
muff
bulwark
backshoot
warm
boke
wringable
range
leather
togger
set
football
trip
skew
crop
on the defensive
skeet
tacklee
bazooka
spear
crotch chain
bat
snatch
flying mare
cob
pistol-whip
leg-breaker
elt
shoestring
pack a punch
nontackle
round in
stand
steeringly
retrench
tackleable
mastigophoric
colporate
wringable
nontackle
wrestingly
defensively
steeringly
jeer
challenge
tackle
garnet
linebacking
elbowing
runner
quarterback
snap swivel
high tackle
monkey wheel
high challenge
halfback
drift
spear tackle
bulwark
range
leather
trip
tacklee
crotch chain
handball
snatch
flying mare
leg-breaker
stand
bowse
bouse
overtackle
tap-tackle
sling
bring the wood
chunk
lob
pitch
truck
hen
hoy
sock
hork
cast
peg
peck
wing
pick
dispossess
ride
start in on
lamp
skin
rob
shanghai
handball
elbow
flat
sway
wicketkeep
tee up
rough
run
buck
outtackle
hilt
backhead
ward
backfoot
go into one's shell
muff
backshoot
warm
boke
togger
set
football
skew
crop
skeet
bazooka
spear
bat
cob
pistol-whip
elt
shoestring
pack a punch
round in
retrench
noun
- An attempt to take possession; a tackle.
- The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
- An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
- A bid to overcome something.
- The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
- An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.
- The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
- A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
- A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
- An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.
- The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.
- A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).
verb
- To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
- To dare (someone).
- To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
- To be difficult or challenging for.
- To call something into question or dispute.
- To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
- To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
- To make a formal objection to a juror.
- To dispute (something).
verb
- To pass a rope around (a cask, gun, etc.) preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
- To throw with a sling.
- To throw with a circular or arcing motion.
- To sell, peddle, or distribute (often illicitly, e.g. drugs, sex, etc.).
noun
- A strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder.
- A loop of rope or fabric tape used for various purposes: e.g. as part of a runner, or providing extra protection when abseiling or belaying.
- A drink composed of a spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened.
- A loop of cloth, worn around the neck, for supporting a baby or other such load.
- A band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast.
- The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke.
- A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering.
- An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other.
- A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported.
- A young or infant spider, such as one raised in captivity.
noun
- A block and tackle.
- Any instance in which one person intercepts another and forces them to the ground.
- A device for grasping an object and an attached means of moving it, as a rope and hook.
- A man's genitalia.
- Equipment, gear, gadgetry.
- A play where a player attempts to take control over the ball from an opponent, as in rugby or football.
- Equipment (rod, reel, line, lure, etc.) used when angling.
- An offensive line position between a guard and an end: offensive tackle; a person playing that position.
- A play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground.
- Clothing.
- A defensive position between two defensive ends: defensive tackle; a person playing that position.
verb
- To "hit on" or pursue a person that one is interested in.
- To face or deal with, attempting to overcome or fight down.
- To bring a ball carrier to the ground.
- To attempt to take away a ball.
- To force a person to the ground with the weight of one's own body, usually by jumping on top or slamming one's weight into them.
verb
- To throw.
- To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
- Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.
- To break into large pieces or chunks.
noun
- A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
- A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
- A part of something that has been separated.
- A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
- A segment of a comedian's performance.
verb
- To throw.
- To fix or set the tone of.
- To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- To throw away; discard.
- To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To set or fix.
- To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- To assemble or erect (a tent).
- To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
- To bounce on the playing surface.
- To settle and build up, without melting.
- To discard for some gain.
- To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- To fix one's choice.
- To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- To produce a note of a given pitch.
- To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
noun
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
- The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- The act of pitching a baseball.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- The field of battle.
- A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- Pitchstone.
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- A person's or animal's height.
- Prominence; importance.
verb
- To run over or through a tackler in American football.
- To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
- To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
- To travel, to proceed.
- To trade, exchange; barter.
- To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
- To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
- To drive a truck.
- To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
- To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
- To convey by truck.
- To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
- To persist, to endure.
- To deceive; cheat; defraud.
noun
- Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
- Any smaller wagon/cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.
- A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
- A lorry with a closed or covered carriage.
- The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
- The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].
- The ball on top of a flagpole.
- Dirt or other messiness.
- A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods.
- A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods
- A platform with wheels or casters.
- Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
- On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
verb
noun
- A female chicken (Gallus gallus), particularly a sexually mature one kept for her eggs.
- A female fish (especially a salmon or trout) or crustacean.
- The hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), a bivalve shellfish.
- A hen night.
- A woman, particularly
- An affectionate term of address used to women or girls.
- A henlike person of either sex.
- Coordinate term: cock
- A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl.
- A bride-to-be, particularly in the context of her "hen night" festivities.
adv
verb
- To throw.
- To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
- To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.
- To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.
- Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
- To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.
- To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.
- To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
- To throw down or aside.
- To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
- To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).
- To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
- To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
- To broadcast (video) over the Internet or a local network, especially to one's television.
- To remove, take off (clothes).
- To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
- To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
- To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
- To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
- To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
- To assign (a role in a play or performance).
- To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).
- To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
adj
noun
- Visual appearance.
- An object made in a mould.
- A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
- A squint.
- Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
- The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
- The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
- A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
- The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
- Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
- The casting procedure.
- The mould used to make cast objects.
- A group of crabs.
- An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
- An act of throwing.
verb
- To throw.
- To affix or pin.
- To fasten using a peg.
- To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
- To indicate or ascribe an attribute to. (Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list.)
- To engage in anal sex by penetrating (one's male partner) with a dildo.
- To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
- To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
- To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
- To fix a value or price.
noun
- A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
- One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
- A stump.
- A support; a reason; a pretext.
- A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
- The penetration of one's (male) partner in the anus using a dildo.
- A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
- A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
- A protrusion used to hang things on.
- A step; a degree.
- A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.
- A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
- A place formally allotted for fishing
verb
- To throw.
- To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
- To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
- To type in general.
- To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
- To type by searching for each key individually.
- To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
- To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.
- To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
- To kiss briefly.
noun
verb
- To throw.
- To add a wing (extra part) to.
- To furnish with wings.
- To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
- To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
- To traverse by flying.
- To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
- To fly.
noun
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly
- Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
- A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
- A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
- That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
- A position in several field games on either side of the field.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
- Human arm.
- On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
- A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
- A háček.
verb
- To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- To screen.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
noun
- Pasture; feed, for animals.
- A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A screen.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A pickoff.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- A good defensive play by an infielder.
- An interception.
- An anchor.
- That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
verb
- To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
- 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 rely, depend (on).
- Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
- 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.
noun
- A rope to increase the power of a tackle.
- Somebody who controls or manages (e.g. a system).
- A player who runs for a batsman who is too injured to run; he is dressed exactly as the injured batsman, and carries a bat.
- Anyone sent on an errand or with communications, especially for a bank (or, historically, a foot soldier responsible for carrying messages during war).
- A short sling with a carabiner on either end, used to link the climbing rope to a bolt or other protection such as a nut or friend.
- An automobile; a working or driveable automobile.
- A competitor in a poker tournament.
- A person or vessel who runs blockades or engages in smuggling. (Especially used in combination, e.g. gunrunner).
- Part of a shoe that is stitched to the bottom of the upper so it can be glued to the sole.
- A speedrunner.
- A long, narrow carpet for a high traffic area such as a hall or stairs.
- An employee of a sports agent who tries to recruit possible player clients for the agent.
- A quick escape away from a scene.
- A type of soft-soled shoe originally intended for runners.
- A person who moves, on foot, at a fast pace, especially an athlete.
- Any entrant, person or animal (especially a horse), for a race or any competition; a candidate for an election.
- An idea or plan that has potential to be adopted or put into operation.
- A part of a cigarette that is burning unevenly.
- A baserunner.
- One who runs away; a deserter or escapee.
- The blade of an ice skate.
- The channel or strip on which a drawer is opened and closed.
- Part of a mechanism which allows something to be pulled out for maintenance.
- The curved base of a rocking chair.
- In saddlery, a loop of metal through which a rein is passed.
- In molding, a channel cut in a mold.
- The rotating-stone of a grinding-mill.
- The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
- A tool in which lenses are fastened for polishing.
- A long stolon sent out by a plant (such as strawberry), in order to root new plantlets, or a plant that propagates by using such runners.
- A running gag
- A part of an apparatus that moves quickly.
- A smooth strip on which a sledge runs.
- A leaping food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; the skipjack, shoemaker, or yellowtail.
- A restaurant employee responsible for taking food from the kitchens to the tables.
- A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
- A person (from one or the other team) who runs out onto the field during the game to take verbal instructions from the coach to the players. A runner mustn't interfere with play, and may have to wear an identifying shirt to make clear his or her purpose on the field.
- A strip of fabric used to decorate or protect a table or dressing table.
verb
- To use tricks to go past a defender.
- To injure the skin of.
- To high five.
- To become covered with skin.
- To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
- To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
- To apply a skin to (a computer program).
noun
- A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
- The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
- The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
- The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
- A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
- An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
- The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
- A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.
- That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
- A drink of whisky served hot.
- The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
- A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
- person, chap
- Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
- Rolling paper for cigarettes.
verb
- To hit with a slingshot.
- To commandeer, hijack, or otherwise (usually wrongfully) appropriate a place or thing.
- To trick a suspect into entering a jurisdiction in which they can be lawfully arrested.
- To press-gang sailors, especially (historical) for shipping or fishing work.
- To force or trick someone to go somewhere or do something against their will or interest, particularly
- To transfer a serviceman against their will.
noun
verb
- To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
- To insert a hand into someone's anus.
- To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacle to another.
- To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.
noun
- An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
- A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.
- The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.
- A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.
- The small rubber ball used in this sport.
- A schoolyard game in which a tennis ball is struck with the hand, played on a improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.
- The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.
verb
- To nudge, jostle or push.
- To make someone quit or lose their job so that someone else can get it.
- To push with the elbow or elbows; to forge ahead using the elbows to assist.
noun
- The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
- Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane.
- Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.
- A hit with the elbow.
- Two nearby crossings of a rope.
verb
- To dash or throw
- To make a flat call; to call without raising.
- To fall from the pitch.
- To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
- To dash, rush
adv
- Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
- Completely.
- Without allowance for accrued interest.
- Bluntly.
- In the mile race, Smith's time was 3:58.56, and Brown's was four minutes flat.
- Directly; flatly.
- Exactly, precisely.
- So as to be flat.
adj
- Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- Unable to emit power; dead.
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
- Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
- Lowered by one semitone.
- Without spin; spinless.
- Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
- Flattening at the ends.
- With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- Exact.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
- Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- Without variations in pitch.
- Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- Having no variations in height.
- Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
noun
- A flat tyre/flat tire.
- A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene. It's a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth orbackdrop.
- An area of level ground (sometimes covered with water).
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
- A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
- The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
- A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.
- Level ground in general.
- A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
- Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- the area in the centre of a racecourse.
- A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
verb
- To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield.
- To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. Compare persuade.
- To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
- To hoist (a mast or yard) into position.
- To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
- To have weight or influence.
- To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp.
- To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.
noun
- The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.
- Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
- Rule; dominion; control; power.
- A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
- The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's lateral motion.
- A rocking or swinging motion.
- Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side
verb
- To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
- To render rough; to roughen.
- To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
- To create in an approximate form.
- To endure primitive conditions.
- To roughen a horse's shoes to keep the animal from slipping.
adv
adj
- Turbulent.
- Crude; unrefined.
- Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
- Difficult; trying.
- Violent; not careful or subtle.
- Not polished; uncut.
- Harsh-tasting.
- Somewhat ill; sick; in poor condition.
- Unwell due to alcohol; hungover.
- Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
- Worn; shabby; weather-beaten.
- Not smooth; uneven.
noun
- A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.
- A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
- The unmowed part of a golf course.
- The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
- A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
- A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.
verb
- To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- To print or broadcast in the media.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- To be a candidate in an election.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- To control or manage, be in charge of.
- To smuggle (illegal goods).
- To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To make run in a race.
- To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
- To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- To speedrun.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To move or spread quickly.
- To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- To make a machine operate.
- To become liquid; to melt.
- To make something extend in space.
- Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
- To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
- To be presented in the media.
- Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- To cost a large amount of money.
- Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- Of a liquid, to flow.
- To compete in a race.
- Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To make run in an election.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- To have growth or development.
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
- To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
- To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
verb
- To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
- To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
- To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
- To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
- To copulate, as bucks and does.
- To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
- To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
- To break up or pulverize, as ores.
- To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
- To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
- To fuck.
- To bend; buckle.
- To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
- To swell out.
- To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
- To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
noun
- The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
- A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
- An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
- A rand (currency unit).
- A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- Size.
- A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
- A euro.
- Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”)
- One hundred.
- The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
- A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
- The beech tree.
- Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
- One million dollars.
- The body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part.
- Belly, breast, chest.
- A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
- Money.
- A dollar (one hundred cents).
adj
noun
- An offensive back whose primary jobs are to carry the ball on running plays and to serve as a receiver or blocker on passing plays.
- Any of various positions on the field of play between the forwards and the fullbacks.
- The player who feeds the ball into the scrum, and receives the ball as it emerges from the back of the scrum.
- A player in the halfback position, with both offensive and defensive roles.
- One of three players (the centre halfback and two halfback flankers) on the line between the centre line and the fullback line.
- A defensive back whose primary jobs are to cover the slotback on passing plays and prevent running plays from going to the outside.
verb
noun
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- Slow, cumulative change.
- A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
- In New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to be sold.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Anything driven at random.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
verb
- To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
- To move haphazardly without any destination.
- To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- To drive into heaps.
- To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
verb
- To act on the defensive with a weapon.
- To defend, to protect.
- To be vigilant; to keep guard.
- To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches (usually followed by off)
- To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
noun
- The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
- The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)
- An object used for guarding.
- A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
- A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
- A section or subdivision of a prison.
- An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
- A guarding or defensive motion or position.
- Land tenure through military service.
- Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
- A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.
- An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
- An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
- A minor looked after by a guardian.
- A division of a forest.
verb
verb
noun
- 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 short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
- 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.
verb
- To beat or spank.
- To scold or abuse verbally.
- To become ardent or animated.
- To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
- To become warm, to heat up.
- (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
- To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
- To make or keep warm.
adj
- Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.
- Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
- Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.
- Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.
- Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
- Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness
noun
noun
- The defensive area that a player can cover.
- A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
- An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
- An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
- The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
- The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
- A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
- The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- An area for military training or equipment testing.
- A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
- In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
- The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
- Selection, array.
- An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
- The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
verb
- To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
- To classify.
- Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
- To form a line or a row.
- To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
- To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
- Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
- To rove over or through.
- To determine the range to a target.
- To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
- To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
- To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
noun
- A good defensive play
- A punch.
- A piece of the above used for polishing.
- A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing.
- A cricket ball or football.
- clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.
adj
- Made of leather.
- Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign of sadomasochistic homosexuality.
verb
verb
verb
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
noun
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
adj
verb
noun
- American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
- Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
- rugby league.
- The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President.
- A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.
- rugby union.
- Australian rules football.
- The ball used in any game called "football".
- Canadian football: a game played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
- Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.
- An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
noun
- A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A stumble or misstep.
- A trip-switch or cut-out.
- Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- A flock of wigeons.
- A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- A mechanical cutout device.
- A faux pas, a social error.
verb
- To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- To be activated, as by a signal or an event
- To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
- To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
- To journey, to make a trip.
adj
verb
- To hurl or throw.
- To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
adv
adj
- Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
- Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
- Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
noun
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- The coping of a gable.
- A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
- A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
verb
- To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
- 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 yield harvest.
- To mow, reap or gather.
- To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
noun
- 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 outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- 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
noun
- A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.
- The ejaculation of semen.
- A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9.
- A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
- A young working-class person who's occasionally loud, disruptive and poorly educated person.
- news or gossip
verb
noun
- Crack cocaine.
- A shoulder-held rocket launcher used as an antitank weapon, developed by America during World War II and so-called from its resemblance to the bazooka musical instrument.
- A primitive trombone having wide tubes.
- A woman's breast, especially a big one.
- Any shoulder-fired rocket grenade launcher.
verb
- To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
- To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
- To pierce with a spear.
- To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
adj
noun
- An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
- The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
- A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
- The sprout of a plant, stalk
- In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
- A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
- A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
- A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
- A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
- The feather of a horse.
verb
- To strike or swipe as though with a bat.
- To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.
- To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
- To flit quickly from place to place.
- To flutter
- To wink.
noun
- A part of a brick with one whole end.
- A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
- A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
- Rate of motion; speed.
- Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
- Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
- A stroke of work.
- A rough walking stick.
- The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.
- A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
- A stroke; a sharp blow.
- Shale or bituminous shale.
- An old woman.
noun
- A quick grab or catch.
- A short period.
- A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- The vulva.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
verb
verb
- To throw, chuck, lob.
- To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
- To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
- To remove the kernels from a corncob.
- To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
- To break up ground with a hoe.
- To have the heads mature into corncobs.
- To thresh.
noun
- A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
- A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
- A small fish, the miller's thumb.
- The seed-bearing head of a plant.
- A male swan.
- Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
- A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
- A corncob.
- A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
- A horse having a stout body and short legs.
- A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
- A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
- A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
- A spider (cf. cobweb).
- A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
noun
- A tackle or other on-field maneuver capable of breaking a player's leg.
- A demanding bicycling competition or the course on which such a competition is held.
- A cricketer who bowls leg breaks.
- A leg break ball.
- A violent thug, especially one employed as an enforcer by a criminal organization.
- A person whose job is to break the legs of poultry in a food processing facility.
verb
- To injure (anything) by rough handling; handle roughly.
- To knead dough; stir dough previously kneaded to a proper consistency before baking.
- To meddle; interfere.
- To begrime; soil with mud; daub; smear.
- To work persistently or laboriously; be occupied in working (e.g. in the earth, rake among dirt, etc.).
- To become soft; become moist, as damp earth.
noun
- a defensive effort
- a support or foundation
- the position where a thing or person stands
- a growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area
- a small table for holding articles of various kinds
- a support for displaying ot holding various articles
- an interruption of normal activity
- a mental position from which things are viewed
- a booth where articles are displayed for sale
- a stop made by a touring musical or theatrical group to give a performance
- tiered seats consisting of a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade)
- a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air
verb
- be standing; be upright
- be in some specified state or condition
- occupy a place or location, also metaphorically
- hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- have or maintain a position or stand on an issue
- remain inactive or immobile
- be in effect; be or remain in force
- be tall; have a height of; copula
- put into an upright position
- withstand the force of something
- be available for stud services
verb
- To take up a new defensive position.
- To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
- To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
- To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
- To abridge; to curtail.
- To cut down or reduce.
- To live less expensively; to economize.
- To confine; to limit; to restrict.
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