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An Ancient Greek weapon similar to a javelin
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(historical) A war cry of Ancient Greece.
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Having an alpine style.
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(historical, Roman antiquity) The sacred shield of the Ancient Romans, said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.
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(military) The Greek resistance, and its members, during World War II
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(historical) A traditional cavalry display in Ancient Athens; in particular a series contests occurring later in democratic period as a contest between tribal cavalry units at Athenian festivals such as the Olympieia and Panathenaea
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(art) A conventional subject of ancient Greek votive sculpture: an athlete caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with a strigil.
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(historical) A soldier in the army of Alexander the Great who carried a silver shield.
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(now historical) A Russian or Soviet craftsmen's collective.
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A country sport, in parts of Ancient Greece, involving hopping on greasy leather bottles
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A type of round shield borne by ancient Greek soldiers
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A carpet made in Axminster imitating the Turkey carpet, noted for its thick and soft pile.
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Alternative form of baggala [A traditional two-masted sailing vessel, used in the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf.]
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(historical) An ancient Attic vase, a hybrid between the conventional skyphos and the band cup.
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(historical) An Italian medieval police or military headquarters.
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The official wand carried by a herald in ancient Greece and Rome, specifically the one carried in mythology by Hermes, the messenger of the gods, usually represented with two snakes twined around it.
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A basket-like ornament in Ancient Greek architecture.
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(historical) Synonym of phorbeia
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(Ancient Greece) An Ancient Greek sling used to fling darts.
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A shield worn by soldiers of ancient Greece and Rome.
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A Muslim rosary consisting of ninety-nine beads.
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(historical) A part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the Ancient Greeks: either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself.
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A buskin used in ancient tragedy.
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Alternative form of cutwal
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Ellipsis of Battle of Crecy.; a battle in 1346 during the Crecy Campaign in the Hundred Years War
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(Caribbean, historical) A unit of land area equivalent to 3,929 square meters.
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A form of Ancient Greek sculpture featuring a young man holding a knotted diadem (as the winner of a contest).
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(historical) A kind of Ancient Greek footrace.
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a statue of a discus thrower
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(art) A spear-bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear-bearer.
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(historical) An avenue, especially in Ancient Greece.
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(historical contexts, especially Ancient Egypt) Alternative form of dromos. [(historical) An avenue, especially in Ancient Greece.]
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A wheeled device, used in ancient Greek plays, that could be rolled out to allow a tableau to be viewed.
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(historical, Ancient Greece) A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.
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A hall, in an ancient Greek palaestra, used for gymnastic exercise
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An Ancient Greek ball game in which players on two teams attempted to throw the ball over the heads of the other team.
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Synonym of kitchen island
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Alternative form of gantang [(Malaysia) An imperial gallon.]
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(Caribbean) Alternative form of ghat: a steep ravine leading to the sea [(India) A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place.]
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Alternative form of helepolis [an ancient Greek siege engine consisting of a wheeled tower containing machines for throwing stones and spears]
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an ancient Greek siege engine consisting of a wheeled tower containing machines for throwing stones and spears
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A courier in Ancient Greece who would run for a day
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A curved masonry wall characteristic of the Ancestral Puebloan road network.
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(historical) An Ancient Greek cavalry officer.
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(historical) A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece, wielding a one-handed spear and an aspis.
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A type of aspis used by Greek hoplites.
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A type of ceremonial column used in traditional Chinese architecture.
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(historical, military, Ancient Greece) A type of lightly armoured foot soldier equipped with an aspis (shield) and spear.
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(art, historical) A depiction of a deceased or famous person on a round shield (clipeus), popular in the art, manuscripts and architecture of Roman and Early Christian culture.
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A shaku, a traditional Japanese unit of distance based on the human forearm, now standardized as ¹⁰⁄₃₃ of a meter.
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(obsolete) asphalt, bitumen, pitch
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Showing qualities typical of a kamidere.
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An art similar to origami, with cutting permitted.
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Alternative form of knarr (“large merchant ship used in mediaeval Scandinavia”) [(historical) A kind of Norse merchant ship used by the Vikings.]
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Alternative form of conistra [(historical) A part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the Ancient Greeks: either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself.]
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A thin leather strip worn by some athletes in Ancient Greece to restrain the foreskin so as to prevent the exposure of the glans.
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Alternative form of manilla (type of armlet) [A penannular armlet, mostly in bronze, copper or gold, which served as a form of money or barter coinage amongst certain West African peoples.]
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(dialect) Lincolnshire spinach Alternative form of markery.
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Obsolete form of Muscat. [The capital city of Oman.]
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In Ancient Greece, an official who carried a whip
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A square wooden box, originally used to measure rice in Japan during the feudal period.
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The face mask of a Samurai warrior.
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(obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)
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(Philippines) A kind of stilt house indigenous to the cultures of the Philippines.
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(historical) A public area in ancient Greece and Rome dedicated to the teaching and practice of wrestling and other sports; a wrestling school, a gymnasium.
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Alternative form of palaestra [(historical) A public area in ancient Greece and Rome dedicated to the teaching and practice of wrestling and other sports; a wrestling school, a gymnasium.]
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Of or relating to the palestra, or to wrestling
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Obsolete spelling of paltock [(historical) A type of short doublet or tunic with sleeves, sometimes worn beneath armour.]
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Archaic spelling of palaestra. [(historical) A public area in ancient Greece and Rome dedicated to the teaching and practice of wrestling and other sports; a wrestling school, a gymnasium.]
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(historical) An ancient athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
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(historical, Ancient Greece) A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army.
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A group of fifty men in the Ancient Greek army
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A traditional cotton towel used in Turkish baths.
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(historical) A broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by the Ancient Greeks and Romans, especially for travelling, and as often pictured to be worn by Hermes (or Mercury); (later also) the brimless winged cap worn by Hermes in later artistic depictions.
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(historical) Specifically, a pikeman fighting in a Macedonian phalanx, armed with a two-handed pike and using a smaller shield than the hoplite's aspis.
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(historical, plural phalanxes) An ancient Greek and Macedonian military unit that consisted of several ranks and files (lines) of soldiers in close array with joined shields and long spears.
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In Ancient Greece, a metal medallion worn by men or used to ornament the harness of a horse.
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A kind of lyre used by the Ancient Greeks.
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(historical) An ancient Greek semaphore system.
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(historical) A guard in ancient Greece
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(historical) a skirmisher cavalry unit used in an Ancient Greek army for scouting ahead of the main force
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(historical, military) In Ancient Greece and during the Byzantine era, a soldier who fought in the first rank of the phalanx. An obsolete English literal translation of such a promachos is a 'forefighter'.
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(Catholicism) A rosary with 150 beads, used for reciting the Psalms in Catholic editions of the Bible.
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(Ancient Greece) A psephism.
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An Ancient Greek war dance.
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In early Greek religion, an instrument whirled on the end of a string similar to a bullroarer.
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(archaic) A private circle; a coterie.
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A traditional Japanese inn with communal baths and other public areas.
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Alternative spelling of sakia [A water wheel, traditionally drawn by a draft animal, but now with a motor. It is about 2-5 meters in diameter.]
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A long pike used in the traditional Greek phalanx formation.
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(historical) A light cavalry unit in Ancient Greece that held a long spear for charging and was equipped with several javelins for harassing the enemy.
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A symbol in ancient art associated with the gods and resembling a Roman military standard.
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(rare) Alternative form of shivaree [(transitive) To serenade (a newly married couple) with the noisy banging of pots and pans.]
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(historical) A curved dagger used in Ancient Roman times, associated with the Thracian and Illyrians, gladiators, and Sicarii.
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(historical) One of the seven men that served in high-ranking military positions during the times of Alexander the Great
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A Japanese abacus derived from the Chinese suanpan.
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(historical) An Ancient Greek headband worn by women.
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A three-looped knot, the traditional symbol of the English county of Staffordshire and its county town, Stafford.
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(historical, Ancient Greece) A day's military march.
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Alternative form of steven [(Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) Voice, especially when loud or strong.]
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(historical) An Ancient Greek headdress like a coronet.
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A traditional Yup'ik play activity of young girls in which they tell stories accompanying them with illustrations scratched in the mud, sand, or snow using a storyknife or stick.
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(historical) A mercenary unit from the Balkans, recruited mainly by states of southern and central Europe from the 15th century until the middle of the 18th century.
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A wheel or spinner that is an emblem of the Greek goddess Hecate.
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(historical) A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears (sarissae).
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(rare) Bull-leaping, as depicted in Bronze Age art, especially from Minoan Crete.
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(historical) A brigade in an Ancient Greek army.
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(archaic) A thyrsus (staff with conical ornament).
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(historical, British India) A black Catholic soldier in the British Army.
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(historical) A Greek archer armed with a short Greek bow and a short sword.
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(military, historical) An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
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Alternative form of voe (“sea inlet”) [(Britain) A narrow sea inlet, particularly in the Shetland Islands, similar to a fjord.]
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(mythology, philosophy) The mythological wheel whose turns, which are random, determine men’s fortunes.
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(historical) A double-edged, single-handed sword, typically used by Ancient Greek hoplites as a secondary weapon after the dory (thrusting spear) or javelin.
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A type of long thrusting lance, used in ancient Greece.
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A Jäger, an elite soldier of the Austrian army
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