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hatchel
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dyed-in-the-wool
fibrillating
woven
woody
chippy
cotton wool
drafting
woolcombing
baste
tacking
basting
basting stitch
lewis
cotton gin
devil's cotton
bast
abaca
comb
Kitchener stitch
overlock
thinning
bast fiber
hookling
weaving
synthetic fiber
man-made fiber
gin
list
woolcomber
sword mat
jute
union cloth
shiv
beam
scutching
contexture
needlework
shock
needlecraft
crimp
flax brake
Shetland lace
picker
birdeye
repellant
paper
repellent
shoddy
pruning shears
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scutch
rack
swingling
brake
plissé
cloth
plow
plough
welt
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verb
- To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
- To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place).
- To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
- To decline in function or utility.
- To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
- To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
noun
noun
- A method of preparing fibers for weaving.
- The act or process of producing a technical drawing, or draft.
- The practice among ground vehicle drivers or cyclists of following in a close line to reduce wind resistance.
- A profession, usually related to making technical drawings for architecture, engineering, or manufacturing.
verb
- To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
- To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
- To steal; to rip off.
- To fart.
- To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
- To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
- To surf extremely well.
- To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
- To take a "hit" of marijuana.
- To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
- To move quickly and destructively.
noun
- A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
- A type of strong, rough tide or current.
- Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- A handful of unthreshed grain.
- A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
- A tear (in paper, etc.).
- A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
- A hit (dose) of marijuana.
- Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
- A wicker basket for fish.
- A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
- Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
- A joyride.
verb
noun
- A wooden implement shaped like a large knife used to separate the valuable fibres of flax or hemp by beating them and scraping from it the woody or coarse portions.
- A bricklayer's small picklike tool with two cutting edges (or prongs) for dressing stone or cutting and trimming bricks.
- The woody fibre of flax or hemp; the refuse of scutched flax or hemp.
- A tuft or clump of grass.
noun
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
verb
- To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
- A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
- Material used for cloth selvage.
- A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
- A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.
- A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
- The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
- A tilt to a building.
- The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
- The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle.
- A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
- A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
- A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.
verb
- To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
- To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
- To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.
- To create or recite a list.
- To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
- To plough and plant with a lister.
- To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
- To place in listings.
- To listen to.
- To listen.
- To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
- To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
- To tilt to one side.
verb
noun
noun
- A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.
- One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
- A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
- The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam).
- One of the principal horizontal structural members, usually of steel, timber, or concrete, of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones.
- The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
- The direction across a vessel, perpendicular to fore-and-aft.
- Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
- The pole of a carriage or chariot.
- A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
- In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.
- The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
- The straight part or shank of an anchor.
- A ray; a gleam.
- An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
- The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
verb
- To put (something) on a beam.
- To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
- To emit beams of light; to shine; to radiate.
- To stretch something (for example, an animal hide) on a beam.
- To furnish or supply with beams.
- To give the appearance of beams to.
- To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
- To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.
- To transmit, especially by direct wireless means such as infrared.
noun
- An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.
- A state of distress following a mental or emotional disturbance.
- Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal.
- Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
- A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).
- A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels.
- A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.
- A sudden, heavy impact.
- A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.
- Something so surprising that it is stunning.
- A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
- A shock wave.
verb
- To give an electric shock to.
- To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.
- To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.
- To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.
- To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
adj
noun
- The natural curliness of wool fibres.
- One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
- A small hold with little surface area.
- Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- A grip on such a hold.
- A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
- An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
verb
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
- to hold using a crimp
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
noun
- A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
- One who removes defects from and finishes electrotype plates.
- Any user interface control that selects something.
- The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
- A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
- A worker in an Amazon warehouse, responsible for retrieving ordered items.
- A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
noun
- A small hole that appears in knitted or woven fabric, where the threads have separated.
- A reverse twill weave, or cloth made with that weave.
- A position looking down from above, either literally or figuratively (providing an overview).
- An eye that is birdlike, especially one with an unblinking stare or with very keen eyesight.
- A small spot or knot in finished lumber.
- A flowering herbaceous perennial, Veronica chamaedrys.
- A small rounded deposit in a calcite matrix.
- A variety of string bean, Phaseolus vulgaris.
- A partially woody spurge (Caperonia castaneaefolia) found in wet soils in the southeastern U.S.; Mexican weed; Texas weed.
- A type of small, extremely hot chili (Capsicum frutescen); piri piri.
noun
- a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses
- an essay (especially one written as an assignment)
- a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements
- a medium for written communication
- a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses
- a business firm that publishes newspapers
- the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher
verb
verb
- To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
- To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
- 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 add something as an extra item.
- to tack (something) onto (something)
- To place the tack on a horse; often paired with "up".
noun
- 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.
- The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
- 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.
- A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
- 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 separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).
- To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately.
- To entice, tempt.
- To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
- To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
- To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
- To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
- To backcomb.
noun
noun
- A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- A distaff.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- A woman's breasts.
- A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- A bunk.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- Sleep.
- A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
- A fast amble.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
verb
- To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- To strike in the testicles.
- To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
noun
- A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
- A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
- Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
- That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
- Any fern in the genus Pteris
- A type of torture instrument.
- An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
- A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ
- The handle of a pump.
- An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
- A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.
- A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
- A fern; bracken (Pteridium).
- An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
- A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
- A baker's kneading trough.
- A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ
- The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
- A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him.
verb
noun
- A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
- A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
- Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
- Priesthood, clergy.
- Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.
- A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
- Appearance; seeming.
verb
- To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
- To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves
noun
- A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
- A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
- An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets.
- A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
- Any collection of things bound together.
- A sheave.
noun
- In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
- A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling.
- A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow.
- In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
- In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
- A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
- A feature resembling a welt.
- A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
verb
noun
- A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
- A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc. (Compare wing, airfoil, hydrofoil.)
- A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
- A level of existence or development.
- An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
- A sycamore.
- Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.
- A level or flat surface.
- An airplane; an aeroplane.
- The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight.
- A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
adj
verb
adj
- Tending to form chips when cut, rather than larger, more usable pieces of wood.
- Ill-tempered, disagreeable.
- Involving violence or unfair play.
noun
- A carpenter.
- A fish-and-chip shop.
- A potato chip.
- A chipping sparrow.
- A chiptune.
- An occasional drug habit, less than addiction.
- A prostitute or promiscuous woman.
- The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk.
verb
English words for 'To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem.'
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