nash
hightail it
show a clean pair of heels
skedaddle
cut and run
fly off
take flight
flee
fly
hump it
on the trot
absquatulate
head for the hills
run away
fly the coop
scarper
run
bunk
turn tail
escape
break away
lam
scat
take to the woods
scram
run off
peg it
shift
mosey
cut one's lucky
haul ass
leg it
vamoose
di di mau
shank it
shemozzle
fleet
scuddle
tazz
make a run for it
make a break for it
flash
scud
shoot
dash
scoot
dart
hie
run up
tantivy
book it
make off
beetle
kite
outflee
gnash
run for it
whurry
shoot through like a Bondi tram
take to one's heels
fugitive
dust
make after
rush off
check out
hotfoot
do the dash
sprint
pelt
scutter
morrice
pack
hasty
issue
hustle
hunt
hotfoot it
nick off
umbeschew
post
run for one's life
fray
rattle one's hocks
outgallop
scream
cut-and-run
take to the hills
andele
bolt
hop to it
rash
sally
fugitive
hasty
dash
sprint
pelt
scutter
cut-and-run
nash
hightail it
show a clean pair of heels
skedaddle
cut and run
fly off
take flight
flee
fly
hump it
absquatulate
head for the hills
run away
fly the coop
scarper
run
bunk
turn tail
escape
break away
lam
scat
take to the woods
scram
run off
peg it
shift
mosey
cut one's lucky
haul ass
leg it
vamoose
di di mau
shank it
shemozzle
fleet
scuddle
tazz
make a run for it
make a break for it
flash
scud
shoot
dash
scoot
dart
hie
run up
tantivy
book it
make off
beetle
kite
outflee
gnash
run for it
whurry
shoot through like a Bondi tram
take to one's heels
dust
make after
rush off
check out
hotfoot
do the dash
morrice
pack
issue
hustle
hunt
hotfoot it
nick off
umbeschew
post
run for one's life
fray
rattle one's hocks
outgallop
scream
take to the hills
bolt
hop to it
rash
sally
verb
verb
verb
- run away quickly
- travel through the air; be airborne
- move quickly or suddenly
- operate an airplane
- transport by aeroplane
- cause to fly or float
- be dispersed or disseminated
- change quickly from one emotional state to another
- pass away rapidly
- travel in an airplane
- display in the air or cause to float
- travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
- hit a fly
- decrease rapidly and disappear
noun
- two-winged insects characterized by active flight
- flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
- an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth
- (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
- fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
adj
verb
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- have a particular form
- move along, of liquids
- perform as expected when applied
- change or be different within limits
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- be operating, running or functioning
- change from one state to another
- cause to perform
- be affected by; be subjected to
- continue to exist
- occur persistently
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- conduct to completion
- pass over, across, or through
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- make without a miss
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- cause an animal to move fast
- be diffused
- sail before the wind
- cover by running; run a certain distance
- extend or continue for a certain period of time
- set animals loose to graze
- keep company
- run with the ball; in such sports as football
- travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- travel a route regularly
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- compete in a race
- progress by being changed
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- become undone
noun
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- the act of testing something
- a race run on foot
- an unbroken series of events
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- a regular trip
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
- unrestricted freedom to use
- the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- a small stream
- a race between candidates for elective office
- a row of unravelled stitches
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- an unbroken chronological sequence
- a short trip
verb
noun
verb
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- run away from confinement
- fail to experience
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
- issue or leak, as from a small opening
noun
- the act of escaping physically
- an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
- an avoidance of danger or difficulty
- a means or way of escaping
- a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
- a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
verb
- To leave in a hurry; to go away.
- To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw.
- Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.
- To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.
noun
verb
- To hurry; to move quickly.
- To change position.
- To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
- In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
- To dispose of.
- To practice indirect or evasive methods.
- To remove the first value from an array.
- To change gears (in a car).
- To change the reality one's consciousness resides in through meditation or other means.
- To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- To change in form or character; switch.
- To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
- To engage in sexual petting.
noun
- In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- The act of kissing passionately.
- A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- A bit shift.
- The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An infield shift.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
verb
- To flee, to escape, to speed away.
- To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
- To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
- To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
- To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
- To move or change in position.
- To take the cream from; to skim.
- To evanesce, disappear, die out.
noun
- A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
- Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
- An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
- A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
- A large, coordinated group of people.
- Any group of associated items.
- A group of vessels or vehicles.
adj
verb
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- gleam or glow intermittently
- appear briefly
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- make known or cause to appear with great speed
- expose or show briefly
- protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
- emit a brief burst of light
noun
- a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- a momentary brightness
- a short vivid experience
- a sudden brilliant understanding
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a gaudy outward display
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
- a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification
- a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
adj
verb
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- kill by firing a missile
- fire a shot; release
- make a film or photograph of something
- send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
- move quickly and violently
- throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
- record on photographic film
- emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
- cause a sharp and sudden pain in
- force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
- throw dice, as in a crap game
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- score
- utter fast and forcefully
- measure the altitude of by using a sextant
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
- give an injection to
noun
verb
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
- hurl or thrust violently
- destroy or break
- cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away
- add an enlivening or altering element to
noun
- a quick run
- distinctive and stylish elegance
- a footrace run at top speed
- a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
- the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
- the act of moving with great haste
verb
- To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
- To approach (an event or point in time).
- To accumulate (a debt).
- To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
- To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
- To take to a destination or before an authority.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.
- To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
- Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
- To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
- To erect hastily, as a building.
- To string up; to hang.
verb
- To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.
- To beat with a heavy mallet.
- To loom over; to extend or jut.
- To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
adj
noun
- A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
- Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
- A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
- A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
verb
- To move rapidly; to rush.
- To tamper with a document or record by increasing the quantity of something beyond its proper amount so that the difference may be unlawfully retained; in particular, to alter a medical prescription for this purpose by increasing the number of pills or other items.
- To pass a (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
- To write or present (a cheque) on an account with insufficient funds, either to defraud or expecting that funds will become available by the time the cheque clears.
- To deflect sideways in the water.
- To (cause to) glide in the manner of a kite (“bird”).
- To manipulate like a toy kite; also, usually preceded by an inflection of go: to fly a toy kite.
- To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing.
- To steal.
- To keep ahead of (an enemy) in order to attack repeatedly from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.
- To cause (something) to move upwards rapidly like a toy kite; also (chiefly US, figuratively) to cause (something, such as costs) to increase rapidly.
noun
- A rider who is good at climbs but less good at descents.
- A measure of weight equivalent to ¹⁄₁₀ deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams).
- A lightweight toy or other device, traditionally flat and shaped like a triangle with a segment of a circle attached to its base or like a quadrilateral (see sense 9), carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.
- An aeroplane or aircraft.
- A bird of the genus Elanus, having thin pointed wings, that preys on rodents and hunts by hovering; also, any bird of related genera in the subfamily Elaninae.
- A spinnaker (“supplementary sail to a mainsail”).
- The stomach; the belly.
- A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.
- A rapacious person.
- A blank cheque; a fraudulent cheque, such as one issued even though there are insufficient funds to honour it, or one that has been altered without authorization.
- The brill (Scophthalmus rhombus), a type of flatfish.
- A polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite (sense 3): a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end.
- A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
- Any bird of the subfamily Milvinae, with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring; specifically, the red kite (Milvus milvus) and the black kite (Milvus migrans).
- A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.
- Some species in the subfamily Perninae.
- A (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially one passed illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
- An accommodation bill (“a bill of exchange endorsed by a reputable third party acting as a guarantor, as a favour and without compensation”).
verb
verb
- To leave; to rush off.
- To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.
- To kill.
- Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
- To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
- To remove dust from.
noun
- The act of cleaning by dusting.
- Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- A disturbance or uproar.
- A low or mean condition.
- Something worthless.
- Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
- The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
- A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
verb
verb
- To leave in a hurry.
- To die.
- To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision.
- To obtain (source code or other material) from a repository so that one can modify it and later check it back in.
- To prove (after an investigation) to be the case, or to be in order.
- To visit the oche for the last time and clear one's remaining points to win the game.
- To record (someone) as leaving the premises or as taking something therefrom, as from a library or shop.
- To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
- To withdraw (an item), as from a library, and have the withdrawal recorded.
- To confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility (e.g.: supermarket, online store, hotel) when leaving.
- To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
noun
- An act of moving quickly; a rush.
- A blow or stroke from something thrown.
- A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag.
- The skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).
- The fur or hair of a living animal.
- The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.
- Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair.
- A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.
- Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash.
verb
- Chiefly followed by at: to (continuously) throw (missiles) at.
- Especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily; to rain down.
- To repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something).
- To remove the skin from (an animal); to skin.
- To force (someone or something) to move using blows or the throwing of missiles.
- Of a number of small objects (such as raindrops), or the sun's rays: to beat down or fall on (someone or something) in a shower.
- To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
- Chiefly followed by from: to remove (the skin) from an animal.
- To bombard (someone or something) with missiles.
- To assail (someone) with harsh words in speech or writing; to abuse, to insult.
verb
- To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
- To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
- To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside.
- to load; to encumber.
- To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.
- To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
- To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
- To load with a pack
- To block a shot, especially in basketball.
- To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.
- To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
- To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.
- To play together cohesively, specially with reference to their technique in the scrum.
- To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
- To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
- To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
- To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
- To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
- To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
- To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.
- To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
noun
- A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
- A multitude.
- A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
- A full set of playing cards
- A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
- An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
- The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
- A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
- A shook of cask staves.
- A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
- A flock of knots.
- A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
- A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
- A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
- A group of Cub Scouts.
- A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
verb
- To rush out, to sally forth.
- To deliver for use.
- To deliver by authority.
- To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
- To extend into, to open onto.
- To send out; to put into circulation.
- To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
- To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
noun
- Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
- A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
- The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
- Any financial instrument issued by a company.
- The production or distribution of something for general use.
- A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
- Offspring: one's natural child or children.
- The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
- The entire set of something; all of something.
- The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
- The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
- The action or an instance of sending something out
- A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
- The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out
- Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
- A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
- Any question or situation to be resolved
- The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
- Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
verb
- To rush or hurry.
- To con, swindle, or deceive; especially financially.
- To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
- To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
- To put a lot of effort into one's work.
- To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
- To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
- To bundle; to stow something quickly.
- To work.
- To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
- To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
noun
verb
- To travel quickly; to hurry.
- To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.
- To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
- To assign to a station; to set; to place.
- To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
- To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
- To pay down (the stake).
- To pay (a blind).
- To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
- To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
- To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
- To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
- To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
adv
- Sent via the postal service.
- With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.
noun
- A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
- A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
- A pole in a battery.
- The vertical part of a crochet stitch.
- A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
- A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
- A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.
- A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.
- A post mortem (investigation of body's cause of death).
- A goalpost.
- An appointed position in an organization, job.
- A stud; a two-by-four.
- An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
- A location on a basketball court near the basket.
- A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
- Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
- Post-production.
- A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.
- An assigned station; a guard post.
prep
verb
- To chase (someone or something) away; to disperse.
- To force or make (a path, way, etc.) through.
- To rub.
- Often followed by away, off, or out: to frighten or scare (someone or something) away.
- Of a person's mental strength, nerves, temper, etc.: to become exhausted or worn out.
- To assail or attack (someone or something); to drive (someone or something) away by attacking.
- To become unravelled or worn; to unravel.
- To be afraid or frightened; to fear.
- Of a deer: to rub (its antlers or head) against a tree, etc., to remove the velvet from antlers or to mark territory; also, to rub its antlers against (a tree, etc.) for that purpose.
- Of a deer: to rub its antlers against a tree, etc., to remove the velvet or to mark territory.
- To alarm or frighten (someone or something).
- To rub or wear away (something); to cause (something made of strands twisted or woven together, such as cloth or rope) to unravel through friction; also, to irritate (something) through chafing or rubbing; to chafe.
- To make an assault or attack; also, to create a disturbance; to brawl, to fight.
noun
verb
- To move quickly; to race.
- To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, shout outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to screech, to shriek.
- To be very indicative of; clearly having the characteristics of.
noun
- A form of singing associated with the metal and screamo styles of music. It is a loud, rough, distorted version of the voice; rather than the normal voice of the singer.
- A loud, emphatic, exclamation of extreme emotion, especially horror, fear, excitement, or anger; it may comprise a word or a sustained, high-pitched vowel sound.
- Used as an intensifier.
- A loud vocalisation of many animals, especially in response to pain or fear.
- An exclamation mark.
verb
- To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
- To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
- To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- To escape.
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
- To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- To swallow food without chewing it.
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
noun
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
- A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
adv
verb
- To move forcefully, hastily, or suddenly; to dash, to rush.
- Chiefly followed by against, at, or upon: to collide or hit.
- Chiefly followed by away, down, off, out, etc.: to pluck, pull, or rip (something) violently.
- To emit or issue (something) hastily.
- To forcefully move or push (someone or something) in a certain direction.
- Of rain: to fall heavily.
- Usually followed by up: to prepare (something) with haste; to cobble together, to improvise.
- To break (something) forcefully; to smash.
noun
- Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a fabric with a smooth texture woven from silk, worsted, or a mixture of the two, intended as an inferior substitute for silk.
- An area of inflamed and irritated skin characterized by reddened spots that may be filled with fluid or pus; also, preceded by a descriptive word (rare or obsolete), an illness characterized by a type of rash.
- An irregular distribution or sprinkling of objects resembling a rash (sense 1).
- An outbreak or surge in problems; a spate, string, or trend.
adj
verb
- To venture off the beaten path.
- To set out on an excursion; venture; depart (often followed by "forth.")
- To make a sudden attack (e.g. on an enemy from a defended position).
noun
- A kind of stonefly.
- A willow
- An excursion or side trip.
- An object made from the above trees' wood
- A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
- A sudden rushing forth.
- Any tree that looks like a willow
- A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
- A wren.
- A member of the Salvation Army.
- A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
English words for 'to hurry; run; get away'
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