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(rare) Fed or filled with acorns.
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(countable) A stick, rod, pole, or cane of bamboo, especially one used for corporal punishment.
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Especially in America, a social barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for a person of East Asian ethnicity.
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An apocryphal Asian form of torture where a bamboo shoot is grown through the victim's body, piercing it and eventually emerging on the other side.
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In East Asia and Southeast Asia, a hollow bamboo bolster roughly the size of a human body, embraced by a person while sleeping during hot weather because its open structure exposes the body to cooling air flow.
adj
(informal) Resembling or characteristic of bamboo.
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(countable) Something made from bamboo.
v
To punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
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(Canadian Prairies) A small wood or stand of trees, typically poplar or willow.
n
The hand-made ground of Brussels lace.
v
(transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
adj
Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal's cassock).
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(Anglo-Indian, obsolete) A beating with a bamboo stick.
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A felt ring with a core of salicylic acid that relieves pressure on a corn and erodes the hard skin.
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A display of cut flowers, typically given as a gift.
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An arrangement of fruit in the form of a bouquet.
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The Japanese art of flower arrangement.
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A doll or image decorated with corn (grain) flowers, etc., traditionally carried in the festivals of a kern, or harvest home.
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(rare) A dry husk or covering.
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Decorations that imitate laurel wreaths.
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(music) An American folk percussion instrument consisting of a dancing wooden doll and a flexible plank.
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An oil made from mink fat; it contains palmitoleic acid and is used in various medical and cosmetic products and to preserve leather.
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A basic structure in ikebana (Japanese flower arranging), where the flowers are arranged in a shallow container.
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(dated, South Africa) An ornamental cupboard built into a wall.
adj
Alternative form of ochery [ocherous]
n
A kind of willow, Salix viminalis, growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for wickerwork (basketweaving with wicker). The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow.
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(now largely obsolete) Alternative form of osier [A kind of willow, Salix viminalis, growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for wickerwork (basketweaving with wicker). The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow.]
adj
Alternative form of parsleyed [(cooking) Prepared with parsley.]
n
(countable) An apple or orange studded with cloves used for the same purpose.
n
A flower; a small bouquet; a nosegay.
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(by extension) A cane made from this material.
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(historical) matting manufactured from the inner bark of the linden-tree
n
Alternative spelling of silverskin [A silverskin onion.]
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Alternative form of supplejack [Any of various North American vines that have supple stems.]
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Alternative form of supplejack [Any of various North American vines that have supple stems.]
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A cane made from such a plant used as a walking stick or as a whip.
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A walking cane made from such bamboo.
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A cane made from whangee wood.
n
oakum made from untarred rope
n
(obsolete) A kind of willow.
adj
(archaic) Made from the wood of the yew tree.
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