n
A stimulus or driving force.
adj
Knotted again and again; covered with knots.
n
The point of a blade or similar item where it begins to bite or penetrate.
v
(intransitive, poetic) To put forth or have a blade.
n
The stroke of a brush, as in painting.
n
A mark made (as if) with a burin
n
(countable) The small indentation created by such a tool.
n
(UK) Alternative spelling of center punch. [(countable) A tool used to create a small indentation in preparation for drilling a hole.]
n
(engineering) One of the fine undulations or ripples formed on the surface of work by a cutting tool which chatters.
n
(fiction) In speculative erotica, a scar or mark on a person's body signifying their permanent bond to another, typically the result of a bite.
n
A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
n
(archaic) fang (kind of tooth)
n
(archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
n
A dented appearance on silverware, produced by successive blows of a hammer.
n
The act of one who hews or chops.
v
(transitive, archaeology) The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
n
(countable) A stick of this makeup.
n
(anatomy, dated) birthmark
n
Alternative form of longing mark [(anatomy, dated) birthmark]
n
(fiction) In speculative erotica, a scar or mark on a person's body signifying their permanent bond to another, typically the result of a bite.
n
(UK, Ireland) A cosmetic lacquer applied to the fingernails or toenails.
n
A notched mark or pattern.
n
A person who pierces, especially one who carries out body piercing.
n
A hole made in the body so that jewellery can be worn through it.
v
(transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
n
(usually in the plural) An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
n
A sharp instrument; any sharp-pointed thing.
v
To pierce or be pierced with quills.
adj
Having the edge finely notched.
adj
Alternative form of riftsawn [(of a log of wood) Sawn radially, so the annual rings are at an angle of nearly 90° to the faces.]
adj
(of a log of wood) Sawn radially, so the annual rings are at an angle of nearly 90° to the faces.
n
(woodworking) Wood that has been ripped (cut parallel to the grain).
adj
Having a jagged edge like a saw.
adj
Having sawteeth, or a similar form
adj
Notched or cut like a saw.
n
(countable) One of the teeth in a serrated or serrate edge.
n
The state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw.
v
To cut a narrow opening.
n
(fandom slang) A mark on a character's body identifying their soulmate(s); the physical manifestation of a character's soulbond.
v
(transitive) To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
v
To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
n
(religion, Christianity) bodily marks or sores, corresponding in location to the crucifixion wounds of Christ, supposed to occur during states of religious ecstasy or hysteria
v
(transitive) To mark something with striations.
v
Obsolete spelling of stroke [To draw the horizontal line across the upright part (of the letter t).]
v
Obsolete spelling of stroke [To draw the horizontal line across the upright part (of the letter t).]
v
(masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to (stone) by carving it with a tool.
adj
Characteristic of a stroke (medical incident)
n
Alternative form of teethmark [A mark or imprint left by teeth]
n
A mark or imprint left by teeth
n
Alternative spelling of toothmark [The imprint left by a tooth or teeth.]
adj
(obsolete) Striped; streaked.
n
A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring.
v
(transitive) To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone.
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