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(logging) One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
n
(informal) A decrepit motor car.
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The Scottish equivalent of beating the bounds.
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(chiefly Britain) A hairdresser.
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(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A key, especially a master key; a lockpick.
v
(intransitive, Northern England) To aim; intend; design.
v
(obsolete or dialectal) To trim showily; entangle; hang about.
n
(obsolete) A bundle or burden.
n
(Scotland, archaic) The ends of ribbons.
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(Scotland) The construction technique for building sod structures by building walls out of feal and covering them with divot.
n
Alternative spelling of fender-bender [(chiefly US) A minor accident involving at least one motor vehicle.]
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(obsolete) A hooked stick used to filch objects.
n
(naval, slang, obsolete) A tangled and unsatisfactory account or reckoning.
n
(now chiefly UK dialectal) An arrow.
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(now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
v
Alternative form of ganch (“to impale”) [To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks as a punishment.]
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(transitive) To execute by hanging.
n
(Scotland) The side of the head; the temples.
n
One who halts or limps; a cripple.
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(obsolete) A rascal, one fit to be executed by hanging.
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(idiomatic) A crime so serious that it is punishable by means of death by hanging.
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The struggling motions of a person being executed by hanging.
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(Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) simple past tense of hit
v
(transitive) In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
n
(finance, informal) A hedge fund trader.
adj
(of a path) uneven, rugged
n
(UK, slang, obsolete) A pickpocket.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To hock; to hamstring; to cripple; to disable.
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(figuratively, Ireland, idiomatic) An opinionated person who offers (unsolicited and often unwanted) advice on the best way to handle a situation.
n
(Scotland) A wheelbarrow.
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To take a dog to the kerb for the purpose of evacuating.
n
A marker used in the game of hopscotch.
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(Scotland, law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
adj
(Scotland, Northern England) Locked.
n
One who or that which lopes; a runner; a leaper.
n
One who surfaces a road with macadam.
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A bucket intended for scooping or holding mud.
v
(transitive) To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
n
(Scotland) An extension to a building.
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(of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw.
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(obsolete) One who pickeers.
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(Northern Ireland) Alternative spelling of plout
n
(Scotland, US, dialect) A sharp point; a goad.
n
(Britain, slang) A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
adj
(UK dialectal, Scotland) Peaceful; still.
n
(Scotland) A sale of goods by auction.
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(now rare) Either of a ruckman or a ruck rover, but not a rover.
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(obsolete) A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.
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(intransitive, hunting, archaic, rare) Of an animal: to turn or double back to elude hunters or their hunting dogs.
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(archaic, reflexive) stand off; move away (said by milkmaids to their cows after milking them)
v
(informal) To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports.
adj
Of a projectile: held in place by a sabot (carrier).
n
(colloquial, dated) A criminal who has narrowly escaped being hanged.
n
Alternative form of scopperil [A type of teetotum (spinning top).]
v
Alternative form of scoat [(UK, dialect) To prop; to scotch.]
n
An obstacle set up against military vehicles; a Czech hedgehog.
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(obsolete, Northern England and Scotland) A dish, platter or a trencher.
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One who uses a scythe; a mower.
n
A person who shoos something away.
v
To surreptitiously scan a payment card in order to obtain its information for fraudulent purposes.
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A raucous gathering outside the home of newlyweds; a skimmington, a shivaree.
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Alternative form of skimmington [(obsolete) A person impersonating his/her offending spouse in a procession with the aim of ridicule.]
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Alternative form of skimmington [(obsolete) A person impersonating his/her offending spouse in a procession with the aim of ridicule.]
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Alternative form of skimmington [(obsolete) A person impersonating his/her offending spouse in a procession with the aim of ridicule.]
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(obsolete) A person impersonating his/her offending spouse in a procession with the aim of ridicule.
n
Synonym of charivari (“mock serenade”)
n
One who skimps or does slipshod work.
n
(Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
n
One who skirts around something.
n
The act of one who skirts around something, or avoids it.
v
Alternative form of scug [(Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To shelter; to protect.]
n
(informal) Something that ends a slump.
n
A person who works on a snag-boat clearing away obstacles in the river.
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(Scotland, Australia) To latch (a door, window etc.).
n
Obsolete form of spulzie. [(Scotland) plunder; booty]
n
(historical) A person employed to use a squeegee.
v
(intransitive, Scotland) To shoot with pain, to sting.
n
(figuratively) An emotional or circumstantial "place" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now only in phrases).
n
Someone or something that steers.
v
Alternative form of stook [(intransitive, agriculture) To make stooks.]
n
A large, strong, robust person (usually a man).
n
(obsolete) A stem; a trunk.
v
To be hanged for a crime.
n
Obsolete form of thrave. [(UK, dialect) A sheaf; a handful.]
n
(slang) A speed of 100 mph.
v
(transitive, Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
n
A kind of pick forced by the foot into the ground.
v
(Scotland) To barter or trade, especially outside a government monopoly.
n
(obsolete) Alternative form of truckle. [A small wheel; a caster or pulley.]
v
Alternative form of troak [(Scotland) To barter or trade, especially outside a government monopoly.]
n
(UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A kind of cart; a tumbril.
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(obsolete) Someone who is likely to swing in a halter; someone likely to be hanged.
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One who operates a waulkmill.
v
(Western US) To herd (horses or other livestock).
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