thumbscrew
thumbkin
thumbikins
pilliwinks
brake
pilnie-winks
forcipation
Spanish boot
buskin
wheel
rack
gin
scarpines
the boot
boot
iron boot
iron heel
instep borer
devil-on-the-neck
skullcap
strappado
strapado
handlock
torturer
nail removal
nail pulling
Spanish donkey
prod
clenched fist
fist
instrument of torture
Skeffington's daughter
falaka
pair of pliers
brass knuckles
stab
enhanced interrogation technique
pliers
torment
plyers
clavis
clenching
crapaudine
tendony
loose-handed
click
whip
pandy
falanga
bastinado
supination
Judas cradle
iron maiden
pronation
rackmaster
torturelike
zanzhi
blade
crack one's fingers
hammer
blow
legerdemainist
pinch force
peck
hammer fist
clicker
stick
guillotine
spanner
lug wrench
razor strop
Wartenberg wheel
wrench
torturingly
choke pear
pea-knuckle
thumb wrestle
pea-knuckle war
stamp
trigger finger
grasper
fullhanded
handcuffing
showing finger
reverse
index finger
arrow-finger
withe
hammer-on
palmer
keirospasm
tendony
loose-handed
torturelike
fullhanded
torturingly
thumbscrew
thumbkin
thumbikins
pilliwinks
brake
pilnie-winks
forcipation
Spanish boot
buskin
wheel
rack
gin
scarpines
the boot
boot
iron boot
iron heel
instep borer
devil-on-the-neck
skullcap
strappado
strapado
handlock
torturer
nail removal
nail pulling
Spanish donkey
prod
clenched fist
fist
instrument of torture
Skeffington's daughter
falaka
pair of pliers
brass knuckles
enhanced interrogation technique
pliers
torment
plyers
clavis
clenching
crapaudine
click
whip
pandy
falanga
bastinado
supination
Judas cradle
iron maiden
pronation
rackmaster
zanzhi
blade
hammer
blow
legerdemainist
pinch force
hammer fist
clicker
stick
guillotine
spanner
lug wrench
razor strop
Wartenberg wheel
wrench
choke pear
pea-knuckle
thumb wrestle
pea-knuckle war
stamp
trigger finger
grasper
handcuffing
showing finger
reverse
index finger
arrow-finger
withe
hammer-on
palmer
keirospasm
strappado
stab
pandy
crack one's fingers
peck
rack
noun
- A type of torture instrument.
- 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
- An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
- A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
- 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
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)
- a handwheel that is used for steering
- forces that provide energy and direction
- a circular helm to control the rudder of a vessel
- game equipment consisting of a wheel with slots that is used for gambling; the wheel rotates horizontally and players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in
- a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
verb
noun
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- the destruction or collapse of something
- a support for displaying ot holding various articles
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
verb
- torture on the rack
- go at a rack
- stretch to the limits
- put on a rack and pinion
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- run before a gale
- fly in high wind
- draw off from the lees
- torment emotionally or mentally
- work on a rack
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
noun
- An instrument of torture worked with screws.
- A snare or trap for game.
- A windpump.
- An Aboriginal woman.
- A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
- Gin rummy.
- A cotton gin.
- Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
- A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
- A pile driver.
- A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
verb
conj
noun
- an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg
- footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg
- compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- protective casing for something that resembles a leg
- a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed
- the act of delivering a blow with the foot
verb
noun
- A torture device for compressing the skull.
- A yarmulke-like hat worn as an element of ghetto fashion.
- The calvaria, the top part of the skull, covering the cranial cavity containing the brain.
- Any of several species of flowering plants of the genus Scutellaria, in the Lamiaceae family.
- A small domed cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck.
verb
- To thrust in a stabbing motion.
- To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
- To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
- To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
- To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
- To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
noun
- The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
- A wound made by stabbing.
- An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
- Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
- Criticism.
- An attempt.
- A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
- A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
noun
noun
- A form of torture in which the hands and feet are tied together behind the back, forcing the victim's body to bow, and sometimes accompanied by additional forms of torture, such as suspending the body by the point where the hands and feet are tied or beating.
- A type of piquant sauce flavored with tarragon, lemon or vinegar, and other spices, that is traditionally served with a fowl cooked in the crapaudine style.
- A toadstone.
- An heirloom variety of beet originating in France, and considered possibly the oldest beet cultivar.
- A method of preparing fowl and poultry, where the back is split apart and the bird is flattened down the breast, looking somewhat like a toad; spatchcock.
- A device for calibrating a pendulum consisting of a dilatable plate that produces an artificial tilt of a clinometer.
- The socket in which the pivot of a door turns.
noun
- The act of making a clicking sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and then releasing to strike the palm; a snap.
- A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
- A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
- The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
- A pawl or similar catch.
- The latch of a door.
- The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
- An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
- A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock, or a latch.
- Sound made by a dolphin.
- A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
intj
verb
- To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
- To emit a click.
- To snap the fingers.
- To visit (a web site).
- To make sense suddenly.
- Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
- To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
- To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
- To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
- To get along well.
- To take (a photograph) with a camera.
- To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
noun
- The same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
- A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
- A whipper-in.
- A blow administered with a whip.
- A coach driver; a coachman.
- The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
- A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing them of upcoming votes in parliament.
- A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
- The regular status of an MP within a parliamentary party, which can be revoked by the party as a disciplinary measure.
- A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
- A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
- A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes; a whipper-in.
- A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
- A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
- A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
- Whipped cream.
verb
- To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
- To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
- To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
- To urge into action or obedience.
- To hit with any flexible object.
- To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
- To move very fast.
- To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
- To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
- To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
- To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
- To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
- To snap back and forth like a whip.
- To hit with a whip.
- To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
- To defeat, as in a contest or game.
- To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
noun
- The position of the sword hand when the palm is facing up.
- The act or state of lying face upward, on one's back.
- The act or state of combined adduction and inversion of the foot.
- The act of rotating the forearm so that the palm of the hand is turned up or forward, or the resulting state of the forearm
noun
- An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down interrogation mark.
- A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
- The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
- A homosexual, usually male.
- The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
- One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
- The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
- The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
- A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
- A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
- The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
- A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
- The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
- The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
- Thin plate, foil.
- The principal rafters of a roof.
- A blade server.
- An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
- A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
- Synonym of knifeblade
- The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
- A sword or knife.
verb
noun
- a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking
- the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
- the ossicle attached to the eardrum
- a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
- a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw
- a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate
- a power tool for drilling rocks
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
verb
noun
- a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon
- an impact (as from a collision)
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- a strong current of air
- street names for cocaine
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
verb
- exhale hard
- be blowing or storming
- free of obstruction by blowing air through
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- make a sound as if blown
- shape by blowing
- be inadequate or objectionable
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- spend lavishly or wastefully on
- sound by having air expelled through a tube
- play or sound a wind instrument
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- cause air to go in, on, or through
- cause to move by means of an air current
- spout moist air from the blowhole
- leave; informal or rude
- deposit eggs (of insects)
- cause to be revealed and jeopardized
- show off
- allow to regain its breath
- melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
- burst suddenly
verb
- To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
- To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
- To type in general.
- To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
- To type by searching for each key individually.
- To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
- To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.
- To throw.
- To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
- To kiss briefly.
noun
noun
- A signalling device used by military forces. Pressed between thumb and fingers, it makes a small but distinctive click understood by other members of a unit.
- An electronic device used by individual students in the classroom to respond to multiple-choice questions, etc.
- Someone who clicks, for example using a computer mouse.
- A small mechanical device that produces a clicking sound, used in dog training.
- An employee who locks the type in the form to make it ready for printing.
- A machine that cuts materials using a steel rule die. The name comes from the sound (click) when the material is cut. May be hand, pneumatic, or hydraulic powered.
- A person who cuts out the uppers of shoes from pieces of leather using a flexible knife that clicks as it changes direction.
- The remote-control device used to change settings on a television set, VCR, or other electronic equipment.
noun
- A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- 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).
- 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.
- A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- The clarinet.
- Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- General hitting ability.
- A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- The short whip carried by a jockey.
- A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- A handgun.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Corporal punishment; beatings.
- 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.
- Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- 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.)
- The traction of tires on the road surface.
- The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- Criticism or ridicule.
- A memory stick.
- 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. Compare carrot.)
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
adj
verb
- To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- To perform (a landing) perfectly.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- To stab.
- To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- To persist.
- Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To propagate plants by cuttings.
- To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- To jam; to stop moving.
- To furnish or set with sticks.
- To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
noun
noun
noun
noun
- An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
- A device for stamping designs.
- A single dose of lysergic acid diethylamide.
- A small piece of paper, with a design and a face value, used to prepay postage or other dues such as tax or licence fees.
- Cast; form; character; distinguishing mark or sign; evidence.
- A tattoo.
- A kind of heavy pestle, raised by water or steam power, for crushing ores.
- A small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other, used to decorate letters or craft work.
- An indentation, imprint, or mark made by stamping.
verb
- To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
- To strike, beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
- To mark; to impress.
- To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
- To apply postage stamps to.
- To mark by pressing quickly and heavily.
- To give an official marking to, generally by impressing or imprinting a design or symbol.
noun
noun
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- The opposite of something.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
- The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
adj
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
- Reversed.
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
verb
- To transpose the positions of two things.
- To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
- To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
- To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
- To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
- To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
- To overthrow; to subvert.
- To turn something inside out or upside down.
noun
noun
noun
- An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows.
- An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured.
- A band of twisted twigs.
- A partition between flues in a chimney.
- A flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy.
verb
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