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Alternative form of about-sledge [The largest hammer used by smiths.]
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Alternative spelling of arrowhead [(weaponry) The pointed part of an arrow.]
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A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
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Abbreviation of barrel, notably for oil. [(countable) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.]
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A variation of the game beetle often used as a fundraiser
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A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
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(slang, rare) A shotgun, because it is more or less long, held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front.
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Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
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A child's toy, consisting of a (usually plastic) bucket and spade, used for building simple sandcastles at the beach.
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A person employed to use a bucket in some capacity.
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Buckets and similar objects, taken collectively.
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A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
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(military, slang) An anti-tank munition or attack vehicle, that opens up armour like a tin can.
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A piece of equipment consisting of a large basket at the end of an extensible boom, often mounted on a truck body, and used by workers to reach inaccessible places such as power lines and tall trees.
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An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.
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Resembling the worm of a corkscrew in shape
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(Britain) Alternative spelling of colter [A knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.]
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A device used to arm a crossbow by cranking a gear.
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A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
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(obsolete, dialectal) The cross-bar or similar fastening at the end of the beam of a plough or harrow to which the gear of the draught animals is attached.
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(slang, humorous) An automobile that operates on fossil fuels, as opposed to an electric car.
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In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
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A device for guiding wood to the saw.
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Any of several very large vehicles used for lifting, especially in the process of mining: basically an excavator which drags its bucket to fill it.
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(engineering) A coupling pin
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An earthmoving machine similar to a bulldozer, but with a front bucket that can be used for scooping and lifting soil, rather than merely pushing it.
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(military) A short shovel, usually with collapsible handle, used by soldiers for digging entrenchments, foxholes, etc., and as a weapon in hand-to-hand combat.
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(military) A deep trench from which one can fire on the enemy.
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A sledge or sledgehammer; the large hammer which strikes first, or before the smaller one.
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(software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
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A piece of tractor mounted construction equipment consisting of a scoop on the end of hydraulic arms.
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The scoop of a front-end loader.
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An instrument of torture worked with screws.
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(nautical) A small gun, on a whaler, that fires harpoons
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A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
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(countable) The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
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In a sawmill carriage, a cross-block on which the head of the log rests.
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(informal, military, historical) A spigot mortar-type of depth charge weapon from World War II that simultaneously fires a number of explosives into the water to create a pattern of underwater explosions intended to attack submerged submarines.
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(informal) A hobbing machine.
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(nautical) A large calking iron.
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A large scoop for moving soil, sand, etc., attached to a harness and pulled by a horse.
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An instrument for cutting grooves in ice to facilitate its removal.
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a handheld tool for removing ice from car windows etc
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A large saw for cutting through ice to free ships, etc.
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(archaic) a type of pin used by miners to hold the turn-beams and prevent them from turning.
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A short pole used as a lever to direct the fall of a tree during logging.
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A system of jointed bars capable of great extension, originally made for picking up something at a distance, later used in various machinery.
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(historical) A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.
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A tractor with a scoop, for example: front-end loader, front loader, endloader, payloader, bucket loader, wheel loader, etc.
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A device for holding a log in place while it is being worked on. Either metal rods driven into the wood or a mechanical clamping device (perhaps hydraulic or pneumatically activated).
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a small excavator with a swivelling superstructure, usually mounted on crawler tracks.
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A curved piece of metal on a plow or bulldozer that clears the free dirt from the blade.
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(historical) The operator of a naumkeag machine.
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A plug placed in the nose, usually to prevent accidental inhalation of water when swimming
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A machine for raising water consisting of a long lever or yard, pivotted on an upright post, weighted on the short arm and bearing a line and bucket on the long arm.
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(Britain, dated, World War I, signalese) P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
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(military, slang) A marker indicating the PIP (predicted impact point) on a head-up display.
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(plural "pitmen" or "pitmans") A connecting rod in machinery, especially in a sawmill.
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(engineering) An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.
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A tractor-mounted, harrowing tool that runs off power from the tractor's power take-off.
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A bangstick; a kind of underwater firearm.
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Alternative form of power tiller [A tiller (machine that tills the soil) powered by an engine]
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A wheel affixed to a press drill (a seed drill) to compact soil in the seeded furrows.
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(firearms) A wedge of wood or iron put under the breech of heavy guns or the muzzle of siege-mortars to raise them to the proper level.
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An iron bar fitted for securing logs in a raft.
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a long-handled tool for pulling snow off a roof.
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The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
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A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
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A heavy-duty industrial vacuum cleaner designed to handle debris from a worksite or mechanical shop.
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A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.
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(US) A short-handled sledgehammer used with one hand, with a head weighing 3-4 pounds and two flat faces.
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(engineering) a vehicle for pulling trees out of a forest.
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(forestry) The logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest.
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A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill.
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(steelmaking) A skip car.
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A small cart used to carry iron ore, coke, or limestone, inside a blast furnace. It travels through the furnaces on a skip hoist.
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A hammer that consists of a large, heavy, broad and flat block of metal (the head) attached to a handle typically 0.5 meter to 1 meter long. The sledgehammer's design is meant to allow it to be swung powerfully, and to distribute force over a wide area upon impact.
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A worker who uses a sledgehammer.
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One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
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A long stick or pole with a burning tip, used to repel insects.
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(historical) An ancient military engine for launching stones and arrows by means of a spring.
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(historical) A street-cleaning machine consisting of a roller made of squeegee blades pulled by a horse.
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(by extension) Any excavating machine of similar design, no matter how powered.
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Alternative form of steam shovel [(transitive) To excavate (a place, or something from a place) using a steam shovel.]
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(by extension, informal) Any heavy road roller.
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A flat piece of wood used for levelling off grain in a measure; a strickle.
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A rod used to level grain etc. when being measured, or concrete after pouring.
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One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.
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One who operates a tilt hammer.
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a frame fitted to a tractor to which interchangeable implements are mounted
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A toothed bar fitted to a tractor
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The uppermost sawyer in a sawpit.
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A lightweight earthmover used in maintaining roadbeds and runways
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(obsolete) A hod for mortar.
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(military, historical) The process of lining a heavy gun by insertion of a tube of wrought iron, etc.
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(mining) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes
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(Canada) A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.
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(slang, World War I) Ypres
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A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
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(agriculture, dated, dialectal) A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.
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