v
(intransitive) (falconry) to beat about in the air; flutter: said of a hawk which does not rise steadily and then swoop down upon its prey.
v
Alternative form of barber-chair [(Western US, of a tree being felled) To split vertically upward from the partial cut and fall or kick outward.]
n
Alternative form of barber chair (when used attributively). [An articulating chair used in barbershops and salons to facilitate hair-cutting and styling or face-shaving.]
n
(informal, US) A broomtail (unbroken range mare).
v
(idiomatic) To walk past another person, touching them slightly, normally by accident, and ignoring them.
n
(UK, dialect, dated) A stickleback.
n
Alternative form of buzzcut [(US, Canada) A closely-cropped military-style haircut.]
n
(US, Canada) A closely-cropped military-style haircut.
n
(volleyball) Knurled fingers.
n
A person who cuts out the uppers of shoes from pieces of leather using a flexible knife that clicks as it changes direction.
v
To join or patch clumsily.
n
(obsolete) One who patches clothes.
n
One born in the same clutch of eggs.
n
(archaic) A whim or a fancy.
n
Alternative form of cutwal
n
Obsolete form of dag. (dagger) [A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.]
n
A dangling ornament or decoration.
n
(Scotland) A plug of wood driven into a wall to hold a nail, etc.
v
To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
n
(Scotland, obsolete) An awl.
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(UK, dialect, obsolete) A shoemaker's awl.
n
(obsolete, dialect) A fetlock.
n
A width approximately one finger wide.
n
(theater) A handle with strips of cloth attached, used for beating away charcoal dust etc.
n
A whisk used to brush away flies.
n
(obsolete or dialectal) A ferrule, a ring.
n
(UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
n
(countable, engineering, firearms) A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
adj
Alternative form of hair-trigger [Unstable; in a situation that could be worsened by the slightest mistake.]
n
Alternative form of hairgrip [A flat hairpin having two prongs that hold bobbed hair together.]
n
One who hatches (transitive senses)
n
Alternative form of head-scratcher. [A device used to scratch the head.]
n
(slang, historical) The gallows.
adj
Alternative spelling of hobnailed [Having hobnails.]
v
(transitive) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
v
(transitive) To mow, as stubble.
v
(transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
n
(Scotland, archaic) A folding knife.
n
(UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Pocketknife.
n
(archaic or historical) A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; in archaic contexts often used as a term of contempt.
n
Alternative form of kirby grip [(UK) A type of double-pronged hairgrip]
n
(archaic, dialect) Alternative form of kiver [(archaic, dialect) cover]
n
(obsolete, dialectal) A lad.
n
(Northern England, in the plural) Synonym of kneppars
n
Alternative form of notchel [(obsolete, UK, dialect, Lancashire) The repudiation of a wife by her husband, who thereby refuses to pay her debts.]
adj
(chiefly in combination) Having a certain type of knuckles.
adj
(Scotland, Northern England) Knit (of brows), also close-set, contracted.
n
Alternative spelling of moose knuckle [The ball joint of the humerus in a moose's skeleton.]
adj
(nautical, archaic, of a treenail) Cracked.
n
(UK, slang, obsolete) A lock of hair worn twisted back toward the ear.
v
(transitive, rare) To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
n
(obsolete) A knick-knack.
n
(archery) The notch at the rear of an arrow that fits on the bowstring.
n
(UK, slang, obsolete) Synonym of Newgate knocker (“a lock of hair worn twisted back toward the ear”)
n
Obsolete form of pilliwinks. [(chiefly Scotland, historical) A torture device for squeezing the fingers; a thumbscrew.]
n
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A small piece of enclosed ground.
v
Alternative form of tug one's forelock [(intransitive, often satirical or contemptuous) To show deference or obsequious respect.]
v
(Scotland and Northern England) To comb hair.
v
(transitive, by extension) To cut a person's hair so that it stands straight up.
v
To bunch up (fabric); to ruck up.
n
(obsolete) A round object, a disk or ball.
n
Alternative form of sceat [(numismatics, historical) A small Anglo-Saxon coin, especially one made of silver.]
n
(countable) A wooden implement shaped like a large knife used to separate the valuable fibres of flax or hemp by beating them and scraping from it the woody or coarse portions.
n
(Scotland, archaic) The wrist.
n
(obsolete) Anything which draws on or allures; an inducement.
n
(UK, dialect) Alternative form of scarf (“cormorant”) [A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.]
n
(UK, dialect) Alternative form of snecket [(UK, dialect) a door latch]
adj
Full of snags; snaggy.
n
A tool for lopping superfluous branches from a tree.
n
(Northern England, Scotland) A latch or catch.
n
(archaic, Britain) A fastened latch.
n
(obsolete, Scotland) One who is sly, cunning, devious.
n
(UK, dialect) a door latch
n
(Northern England) A narrow passage or alley.
n
(dialect) A noose or snare made using a slip knot.
n
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A fillet; a headband; a snood.
n
A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
n
The foot that is habitually used to put pressure on a spade when digging.
n
(obsolete, slang) A shoemaker's tools.
n
(Scotland, military) A stockade.
v
(transitive, Scotland) To spear; to sting.
v
Alternative form of steek [To stitch (sew with a needle).]
n
(archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.
n
(idiomatic) A dangerous person, who is not to be messed with.
n
(obsolete) One who cuts the handfuls left by the reaper.
n
(dialectal, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
v
(transitive) To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
n
The swinging part of a flail, especially that which is used on the grain in threshing; the swiple.
n
Alternative form of swipple [The part of a flail that is free to swing, and which strikes the grain in threshing.]
n
A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.
adj
(UK, regional, obsolete) Hobnailed.
n
Alternative spelling of tawse [(chiefly Scotland) A leather strap or thong which is split into (typically three) tails, used for corporal punishment in schools, applied to the palm of the hands or buttocks.]
n
(colloquial) Knitted hand or thumb mitts
n
(Scotland, obsolete) A handful of straw bound together at one end, used for thatching.
n
Alternative spelling of trouse [brushwood]
n
(obsolete) A gallows (framework for execution by hanging).
n
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see waffle, maker.
n
A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
n
(UK, dialect) A basket; especially, a straw provender basket.
n
(archaic) A whittle shawl; a kind of fine woollen shawl, originally and especially a white one.
n
(Scotland) A rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of birch.
v
(transitive) To truss hay with a wimble.
n
(UK, obsolete, dialect) A whisket, or basket.
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