English words for 'Work made of timbers.'
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noun
- the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
- (Canada, US) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.
- an implement used in baseball by the batter
- (baseball, slang) A baseball bat.
- (figurative) Useless or cumbrous material.
- (slang, vulgar) An erect penis.
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- the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
- (outside Canada, US, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
- a beam made of wood
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- a post made of wood
- land that is covered with trees and shrubs
- Material for any structure.
- (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
- (countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.
- (cricket, slang) The stumps.
- (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
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- lumber used in the construction of something
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- any animals kept for use or profit
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- a supply of something available for future use
- an ornamental white cravat
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (especially US) A share in a company.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- Ellipsis of film stock.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A store or supply.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A ski pole.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.
adj
- routine
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- regularly and widely used or sold
- (motor racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
verb
- supply with fish
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- equip with a stock
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- have on hand
- supply with livestock
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
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- (uncountable) Working with wood.
- the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood
- (figurative, by extension) A place of concealment or obscurity.
- (uncountable, countable) Something made from wood, especially cabinets and trim (e.g., baseboards, doorframes) made from millwork.
- (soccer, rugby) The frame of the goal, i.e. the goalpost or crossbar.
- work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture
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- A measure for timber.
- One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
- A level of quality or attainment.
- A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.
- Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
- Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
- A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
- The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
- a hill with a cairn or tumulus at its summit
- A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
- (shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
- An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
- The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
- (India) Grade level in primary education.
- The sheth of a plough.
- Ellipsis of standard poodle.
- A manual transmission vehicle.
- (sociolinguistics) standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language
- (botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
- A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
- A large drinking cup.
- (in place names, chiefly Northern England, Scotland) a cairn or tumulus
- A musical work of established popularity.
- (historical) A collar of mail protecting the neck.
- the value behind the money in a monetary system
- a board measure = 1980 board feet
- the ideal in terms of which something can be judged
- an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support)
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- any distinctive flag
adj
- Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
- Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
- As normally supplied (not optional).
- Having recognized excellence or authority.
- (linguistics) Conforming to the standard variety.
- (not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
- (of a tree or shrub) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
- commonly used or supplied
- established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence
- conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind
- regularly and widely used or sold
- conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers
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- An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
- (geometry) A region between two parallel lines in the Euclidean plane, or between two parallel planes in three-dimensional Euclidean space, or between two hyperplanes in higher dimensions.
- (construction) A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
- (physical geography) Ellipsis of slab avalanche.
- A paving stone; a flagstone.
- (geology) Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
- (programming) The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
- (US, slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
- (nautical) The slack part of a sail.
- (Southern US, slang) A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
- (computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
- A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.
- A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
- (surfing) A very large wave.
- (Australia) A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
- (taxation, especially India) Any of the several portions or tiers in a tax rate plan.
- block consisting of a thick piece of something
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- (woodworking) Wood that has been ripped (cut parallel to the grain).
- The process of copying audio or video content from a CD, DVD, etc. to a hard disk.
- (bodybuilding) The use of diet and exercise to reduce body fat and emphasize muscle mass.
- (Australia) The process of ploughing a rabbit warren with deep furrows as a form of feral control.
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- Lagunaria, white oak, in family Malvaceae
- The she-oaks in Allocasuarina and Casuarina, of family Casuarinaceae
- (wine) The flavor of oak.
- Any tree of the genus Quercus, in family Fagaceae.
- Various tanbark oak or stone oak species in family Fagaceae, genera Lithocarpus and Notholithocarpus.
- Toxicodendron, poison oak, in family Anacardiaceae
- Various species called silky oak, in family Proteaceae
- The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution. (Often in the phrase sport one's oak.)
- A rich brown color, like that of oak wood.
- (countable) A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus.
- (uncountable) The wood of the oak.
- a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves
- the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring
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- (milling) A mill for shaping timber.
- Anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal.
- (woodwork) A planing machine for making moldings.
- The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.
- (architecture) A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface and to conceal joints, especially between unlike materials.
- (founding) A kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.
- (founding) A machine to assist in making molds for castings.
- the act of creating something by casting it in a mold
- a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing
- a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied
- a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge
- sculpture produced by molding
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- light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork
- any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
- Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
- (used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.
- (uncountable) The wood of a spruce.
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- (construction) A timber in a wood frame that distributes a concentrated load.
- (anatomy) The flat portion at the base of the stapes; pedicel.
- The engineer's cab in any kind of train.
- The part of a roller skate that attaches to the boot.
- (automotive) A platform on which the driver's foot rests but which, unlike a pedal, has no effect.
- (rail transport) The metal plate which forms the base platform of a steam locomotive and supports the boiler and the driver's cab, particularly in the United Kingdom.
- the platform in the cab of a locomotive on which the engineer stands to operate the controls
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- (uncountable) Timber in the form of small beams and pieces.
- A small, upright beam of timber used in construction, especially less than five inches square.
- (chiefly in the plural) The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft.
- an upright in house framing
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- valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees
- American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
- (countable, golf, informal) A club with a head made from hickory wood.
- A coarse, durable cotton fabric.
- (countable) Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genera Carya and Annamocarya, one species of which, Carya illinoinensis, is the source of pecan nuts.
- (uncountable) The wood of these trees.
noun
- An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
- (slang) A prison or prison cell.
- (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
- The passenger compartment of a lift.
- (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
- A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
- (graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
- (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
- In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.
- An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
- (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
- (US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.
- (baseball, ice hockey) The protective wire mask at the front of a helmet.
- (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
- something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
- a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
- an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
- the net that is the goal in ice hockey
verb
- (transitive) To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
- (aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
- To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
- (transitive, slang) To imprison.
- confine in a cage
noun
- Someone who makes things from wood.
- Someone who lives in the wood and manages it; (by extension) someone who spends time in the woods and has a strong familiarity with that environment.
- Someone who cuts down trees or cuts up, splits, and sells wood.
- a man who lives in the woods
- a man who makes things out of wood
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- (countable) A black key on a piano or other keyboard instrument (as opposed to ivory).
- (countable) A tree that yields such wood.
- Dark skin colour.
- (uncountable) A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros.
- (countable and uncountable) A deep, dark black colour.
- tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
- a very dark black
- hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys
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- (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- (transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- (law) To deny formally.
- (climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- (intransitive, fencing) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
- (weaponry) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- (engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- travel across or pass over
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- (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- (nautical) A traverse board.
- (military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- (surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- (law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
- travel across
- a horizontal beam that extends across something
- taking a zigzag path on skis
noun
- an implement consisting of a length of wood
- a small thin branch of a tree
- a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
- a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
- a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
- threat of a penalty
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- informal terms for the leg
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- (slang) A bar (counter where drinks are served).
- (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
- (figurative) A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)
- (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- (baseball) General hitting ability.
- (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- (field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- (video games) A joystick.
- (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- (computing) A memory stick.
- (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- (slang) A handgun.
- (computing) Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.
- (countable) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
- (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- (jazz, slang) The clarinet.
- (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment, beatings
- (British, figurative) Criticism or ridicule, often in the expressions "get a lot of stick", "get some stick", "come in for some stick", etc.
- (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- (US military slang, World War I) An aircraft’s propeller.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
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- fasten with an adhesive material like glue
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- be loyal to
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
- stick to firmly
- be in a certain place and not leave
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- fasten with or as with pins or nails
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
- be a devoted follower or supporter
- put, fix, force, or implant
- endure
- be or become fixed
- (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
- (intransitive) To persist.
- (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
- (transitive, gymnastics, aviation, sports) To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
- (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To hit with a stick.
- (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- (intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
- (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.
- (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
- (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
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- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
- a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)
- a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting
- (US, slang) One hundred.
- (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
- (finance) One million dollars.
- (US, military slang, WWI–WWII) Lowest rank; a private.
- A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
- Clipping of buckshot.
- Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”).
- The sound made by a chicken.
- A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
- (UK, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
- (Africa) An antelope of either sex; compare with Afrikaans bok.
- A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
- (Scotland) The beech tree.
- (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
- A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad and kangaroo.
- A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
- (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
- (informal, rare) A euro.
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- jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
- move quickly and violently
- to strive with determination
- resist
- (chiefly Ireland, humorous or euphemistic) To fuck.
- (MLE) To meet, to encounter, to come across.
- (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
- (transitive, military) 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.
- (transitive, by extension) 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.
- (metalworking, construction) To press a heavy, shaped bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet, while the opposite end (the rivet factory head) is hammered by a rivet gun, to upset the bucktail into an appropriate shape, most commonly a pancake-shape.
- (intransitive) To bend; buckle.
- (US, military slang) To strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion.
- (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
- (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
- (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
- (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
- (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) 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.
- (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
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- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
- solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
- troops trained to fight on horseback
- a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
- (poker slang) A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
- (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
- (slang) Heroin (drug).
- (military, sometimes uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
- (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on WikipediaWikipedia).
- A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
- In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
- A frame with legs, used to support something.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
- A breastband for a leadsman.
- (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
- (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
- An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
- (slang) A large and sturdy person.
- A jackstay.
- A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
- (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
- Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
- (prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
verb
- provide with a horse or horses
- (transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
- To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
- To take or carry on the back.
- (by extension) To flog.
- To sit astride of; to bestride.
- (informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
- (intransitive) Synonym of horse around.
- (transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
- (transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
- (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
noun
- the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood
- (uncountable) The trade of manipulating materials in order to construct, install, and/or repair buildings or other structures.
- (uncountable) A collection of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.
- (countable) A carpenter’s workshop.
- (uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining wood, timber, or lumber; woodworking.
noun
- A cutting-down of timber.
- (mining) The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
- (textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
- (archaic outside Northern England, Scotland) A wild field or upland moor.
- (geography) High and barren landscape feature such as a mountain range or mountain terrain above the tree line.
- The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
- (archaic outside Northern England, Scotland) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains, particularly in the British Isles or Fennoscandia.
- the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
- the act of felling something (as a tree)
- seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges
adj
adv
verb
- (transitive) To strike down, kill, destroy.
- simple past of fall
- (sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
- (now colloquial) past participle of fall
- (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
- pass away rapidly
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- sew a seam by folding the edges
verb
adj
noun
noun
- A strong timber; a stout prop.
- A pushing action.
- (nautical) A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind.
- A warm, often hooded infant garment, as outerwear or sleepwear, similar to a sleeper or sleepsack; especially as baby bunting or bunting bag.
- Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.
- Any of various songbirds of the genus Emberiza, having short bills and brown or gray plumage.
- Flags considered as a group.
- any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America
- a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc.
verb
noun
- A woodworking machine used to prepare edges of wooden elements to join to other wood pieces.
- (historical) Synonym of hensopper.
- A maker of wooden furniture or fittings.
- A person who joins societies or organizations.
- A thing that joins two separate items, e.g. software to connect video or music clips.
- a woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood
- a person who likes to join groups
noun
- (mining) Timber used for supporting the roof or sides of shafts.
- The act of fitting or closing something with bars.
- (sewing) The sewing of a decorative bar or tack upon a fabric or leather.
- (collective) Bars; an arrangement or pattern of stripes or bars.
- The exclusion of someone; blackballing.
- the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
prep
verb
noun
- wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles
- any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions
- A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves, and many branches.
- The wood of the beech tree.
noun
- A jumble of felled timber.
- (forestry) A concentration of surface wood or fuel.
- A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
- (pinball) A large accumulated point bonus, originally awarded after a long set of actions but now often easily available in multiball modes.
- A large cash prize or money.
- (Western US) A difficult situation.
- An unexpected windfall or reward.
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- any outstanding award
name
verb
noun
- Such cutting to produce millwork (finely finished lumber).
- Such grinding, cutting, or shredding applied to grain to produce meal or flour.
- The surface or other physical result produced by such a process.
- A circular or random motion of a herd or a crowd.
- (machining) A type of machining in which a rotary cutter is moved through a toolpath to cut away material.
- The series of notches around the edge of a coin during minting so that it can be told if some of the metal from the edge is removed.
- corrugated edge of a coin
verb
noun
- the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
- (Canada, US) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.
- an implement used in baseball by the batter
- (baseball, slang) A baseball bat.
- (figurative) Useless or cumbrous material.
- (slang, vulgar) An erect penis.
verb
noun
- the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
- (outside Canada, US, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
- a beam made of wood
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- a post made of wood
- land that is covered with trees and shrubs
- Material for any structure.
- (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
- (countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.
- (cricket, slang) The stumps.
- (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
intj
verb
noun
- lumber used in the construction of something
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- any animals kept for use or profit
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- a supply of something available for future use
- an ornamental white cravat
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (especially US) A share in a company.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- Ellipsis of film stock.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A store or supply.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A ski pole.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.
adj
- routine
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- regularly and widely used or sold
- (motor racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
verb
- supply with fish
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- equip with a stock
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- have on hand
- supply with livestock
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
noun
noun
- (uncountable) Working with wood.
- the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood
- (figurative, by extension) A place of concealment or obscurity.
- (uncountable, countable) Something made from wood, especially cabinets and trim (e.g., baseboards, doorframes) made from millwork.
- (soccer, rugby) The frame of the goal, i.e. the goalpost or crossbar.
- work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture
noun
noun
- A measure for timber.
- One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
- A level of quality or attainment.
- A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.
- Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
- Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
- A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
- The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
- a hill with a cairn or tumulus at its summit
- A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
- (shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
- An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
- The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
- (India) Grade level in primary education.
- The sheth of a plough.
- Ellipsis of standard poodle.
- A manual transmission vehicle.
- (sociolinguistics) standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language
- (botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
- A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
- A large drinking cup.
- (in place names, chiefly Northern England, Scotland) a cairn or tumulus
- A musical work of established popularity.
- (historical) A collar of mail protecting the neck.
- the value behind the money in a monetary system
- a board measure = 1980 board feet
- the ideal in terms of which something can be judged
- an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support)
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- any distinctive flag
adj
- Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
- Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
- As normally supplied (not optional).
- Having recognized excellence or authority.
- (linguistics) Conforming to the standard variety.
- (not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
- (of a tree or shrub) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
- commonly used or supplied
- established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence
- conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind
- regularly and widely used or sold
- conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers
intj
noun
- An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
- (geometry) A region between two parallel lines in the Euclidean plane, or between two parallel planes in three-dimensional Euclidean space, or between two hyperplanes in higher dimensions.
- (construction) A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
- (physical geography) Ellipsis of slab avalanche.
- A paving stone; a flagstone.
- (geology) Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
- (programming) The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
- (US, slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
- (nautical) The slack part of a sail.
- (Southern US, slang) A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
- (computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
- A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.
- A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
- (surfing) A very large wave.
- (Australia) A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
- (taxation, especially India) Any of the several portions or tiers in a tax rate plan.
- block consisting of a thick piece of something
verb
noun
- (woodworking) Wood that has been ripped (cut parallel to the grain).
- The process of copying audio or video content from a CD, DVD, etc. to a hard disk.
- (bodybuilding) The use of diet and exercise to reduce body fat and emphasize muscle mass.
- (Australia) The process of ploughing a rabbit warren with deep furrows as a form of feral control.
adj
verb
noun
- (milling) A mill for shaping timber.
- Anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal.
- (woodwork) A planing machine for making moldings.
- The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.
- (architecture) A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface and to conceal joints, especially between unlike materials.
- (founding) A kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.
- (founding) A machine to assist in making molds for castings.
- the act of creating something by casting it in a mold
- a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing
- a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied
- a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge
- sculpture produced by molding
verb
noun
- light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork
- any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
- Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
- (used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.
- (uncountable) The wood of a spruce.
adj
verb
noun
- (construction) A timber in a wood frame that distributes a concentrated load.
- (anatomy) The flat portion at the base of the stapes; pedicel.
- The engineer's cab in any kind of train.
- The part of a roller skate that attaches to the boot.
- (automotive) A platform on which the driver's foot rests but which, unlike a pedal, has no effect.
- (rail transport) The metal plate which forms the base platform of a steam locomotive and supports the boiler and the driver's cab, particularly in the United Kingdom.
- the platform in the cab of a locomotive on which the engineer stands to operate the controls
verb
noun
- (uncountable) Timber in the form of small beams and pieces.
- A small, upright beam of timber used in construction, especially less than five inches square.
- (chiefly in the plural) The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft.
- an upright in house framing
adj
noun
- valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees
- American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
- (countable, golf, informal) A club with a head made from hickory wood.
- A coarse, durable cotton fabric.
- (countable) Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genera Carya and Annamocarya, one species of which, Carya illinoinensis, is the source of pecan nuts.
- (uncountable) The wood of these trees.
noun
- An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
- (slang) A prison or prison cell.
- (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
- The passenger compartment of a lift.
- (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
- A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
- (graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
- (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
- In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.
- An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
- (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
- (US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.
- (baseball, ice hockey) The protective wire mask at the front of a helmet.
- (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
- something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
- a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
- an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
- the net that is the goal in ice hockey
verb
- (transitive) To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
- (aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
- To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
- (transitive, slang) To imprison.
- confine in a cage
noun
- Someone who makes things from wood.
- Someone who lives in the wood and manages it; (by extension) someone who spends time in the woods and has a strong familiarity with that environment.
- Someone who cuts down trees or cuts up, splits, and sells wood.
- a man who lives in the woods
- a man who makes things out of wood
noun
- an implement consisting of a length of wood
- a small thin branch of a tree
- a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
- a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
- a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
- threat of a penalty
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- informal terms for the leg
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- (slang) A bar (counter where drinks are served).
- (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
- (figurative) A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)
- (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- (baseball) General hitting ability.
- (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- (field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- (video games) A joystick.
- (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- (computing) A memory stick.
- (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- (slang) A handgun.
- (computing) Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.
- (countable) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
- (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- (jazz, slang) The clarinet.
- (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment, beatings
- (British, figurative) Criticism or ridicule, often in the expressions "get a lot of stick", "get some stick", "come in for some stick", etc.
- (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- (US military slang, World War I) An aircraft’s propeller.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
verb
- fasten with an adhesive material like glue
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- be loyal to
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
- stick to firmly
- be in a certain place and not leave
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- fasten with or as with pins or nails
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
- be a devoted follower or supporter
- put, fix, force, or implant
- endure
- be or become fixed
- (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
- (intransitive) To persist.
- (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
- (transitive, gymnastics, aviation, sports) To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
- (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To hit with a stick.
- (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- (intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
- (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.
- (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
- (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
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adj
verb
noun
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
- a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)
- a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting
- (US, slang) One hundred.
- (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
- (finance) One million dollars.
- (US, military slang, WWI–WWII) Lowest rank; a private.
- A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
- Clipping of buckshot.
- Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”).
- The sound made by a chicken.
- A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
- (UK, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
- (Africa) An antelope of either sex; compare with Afrikaans bok.
- A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
- (Scotland) The beech tree.
- (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
- A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad and kangaroo.
- A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
- (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
- (informal, rare) A euro.
verb
- jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
- move quickly and violently
- to strive with determination
- resist
- (chiefly Ireland, humorous or euphemistic) To fuck.
- (MLE) To meet, to encounter, to come across.
- (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
- (transitive, military) 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.
- (transitive, by extension) 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.
- (metalworking, construction) To press a heavy, shaped bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet, while the opposite end (the rivet factory head) is hammered by a rivet gun, to upset the bucktail into an appropriate shape, most commonly a pancake-shape.
- (intransitive) To bend; buckle.
- (US, military slang) To strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion.
- (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
- (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
- (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
- (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
- (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) 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.
- (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
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- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
- solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
- troops trained to fight on horseback
- a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
- (poker slang) A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
- (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
- (slang) Heroin (drug).
- (military, sometimes uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
- (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on WikipediaWikipedia).
- A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
- In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
- A frame with legs, used to support something.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
- A breastband for a leadsman.
- (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
- (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
- An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
- (slang) A large and sturdy person.
- A jackstay.
- A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
- (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
- Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
- (prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
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- provide with a horse or horses
- (transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
- To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
- To take or carry on the back.
- (by extension) To flog.
- To sit astride of; to bestride.
- (informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
- (intransitive) Synonym of horse around.
- (transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
- (transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
- (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
noun
- the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood
- (uncountable) The trade of manipulating materials in order to construct, install, and/or repair buildings or other structures.
- (uncountable) A collection of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.
- (countable) A carpenter’s workshop.
- (uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining wood, timber, or lumber; woodworking.
noun
- A cutting-down of timber.
- (mining) The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
- (textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
- (archaic outside Northern England, Scotland) A wild field or upland moor.
- (geography) High and barren landscape feature such as a mountain range or mountain terrain above the tree line.
- The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
- (archaic outside Northern England, Scotland) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains, particularly in the British Isles or Fennoscandia.
- the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
- the act of felling something (as a tree)
- seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges
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- (transitive) To strike down, kill, destroy.
- simple past of fall
- (sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
- (now colloquial) past participle of fall
- (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
- pass away rapidly
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- sew a seam by folding the edges
noun
- A strong timber; a stout prop.
- A pushing action.
- (nautical) A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind.
- A warm, often hooded infant garment, as outerwear or sleepwear, similar to a sleeper or sleepsack; especially as baby bunting or bunting bag.
- Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.
- Any of various songbirds of the genus Emberiza, having short bills and brown or gray plumage.
- Flags considered as a group.
- any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America
- a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc.
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- A woodworking machine used to prepare edges of wooden elements to join to other wood pieces.
- (historical) Synonym of hensopper.
- A maker of wooden furniture or fittings.
- A person who joins societies or organizations.
- A thing that joins two separate items, e.g. software to connect video or music clips.
- a woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood
- a person who likes to join groups
noun
- (mining) Timber used for supporting the roof or sides of shafts.
- The act of fitting or closing something with bars.
- (sewing) The sewing of a decorative bar or tack upon a fabric or leather.
- (collective) Bars; an arrangement or pattern of stripes or bars.
- The exclusion of someone; blackballing.
- the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
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- wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles
- any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions
- A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves, and many branches.
- The wood of the beech tree.
noun
- A jumble of felled timber.
- (forestry) A concentration of surface wood or fuel.
- A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
- (pinball) A large accumulated point bonus, originally awarded after a long set of actions but now often easily available in multiball modes.
- A large cash prize or money.
- (Western US) A difficult situation.
- An unexpected windfall or reward.
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- any outstanding award
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- Such cutting to produce millwork (finely finished lumber).
- Such grinding, cutting, or shredding applied to grain to produce meal or flour.
- The surface or other physical result produced by such a process.
- A circular or random motion of a herd or a crowd.
- (machining) A type of machining in which a rotary cutter is moved through a toolpath to cut away material.
- The series of notches around the edge of a coin during minting so that it can be told if some of the metal from the edge is removed.
- corrugated edge of a coin
verb
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- (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- (transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- (law) To deny formally.
- (climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- (intransitive, fencing) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
- (weaponry) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- (engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- travel across or pass over
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- (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- (nautical) A traverse board.
- (military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- (surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- (law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
- travel across
- a horizontal beam that extends across something
- taking a zigzag path on skis
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- Lagunaria, white oak, in family Malvaceae
- The she-oaks in Allocasuarina and Casuarina, of family Casuarinaceae
- (wine) The flavor of oak.
- Any tree of the genus Quercus, in family Fagaceae.
- Various tanbark oak or stone oak species in family Fagaceae, genera Lithocarpus and Notholithocarpus.
- Toxicodendron, poison oak, in family Anacardiaceae
- Various species called silky oak, in family Proteaceae
- The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution. (Often in the phrase sport one's oak.)
- A rich brown color, like that of oak wood.
- (countable) A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus.
- (uncountable) The wood of the oak.
- a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves
- the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring
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- (countable) A black key on a piano or other keyboard instrument (as opposed to ivory).
- (countable) A tree that yields such wood.
- Dark skin colour.
- (uncountable) A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros.
- (countable and uncountable) A deep, dark black colour.
- tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
- a very dark black
- hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys