adv
Alternative form of arow [In a row, line, or rank; successively.]
n
A public place where live fish and other aquatic animals are exhibited.
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(geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
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(slang) A person who relaxes frequently on the beach.
adj
Visiting a beach recreationally.
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(by extension) An initial success that ensures the possibility of further advances in a project; a foothold.
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(slang) A supporter of traditional centralized telecommunications networks, contrasted with nethead (a supporter of the Internet and its flexibility and technical underpinnings).
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A flat ledge in the slope of an earthwork, work of masonry, or similar.
v
(transitive) To guide; pilot; direct.
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A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
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(archaic) A goal or destination.
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A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
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piles and boards used to line the bank of a river
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A wooden structure resembling a fort designed for children to climb on.
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(nautical) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.
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Alternative form of devil strip [(US, Akron, Ohio) The grassy area between the sidewalk and the street.]
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A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.
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A row of seed sown in a furrow.
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An open area where military drills are practised.
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Alternative spelling of drum head [The thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell for the purpose of striking, sometimes made of skin and in such occurrences sometimes referred to as a skin, or drum-skin, but often synthetic.]
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(military) A pit dug into the ground as a shelter, especially from enemy fire.
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(archeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.
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An artificial pond that does not have a lining
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(nautical, slang, dated) A place of frolic on shore.
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Alternative letter-case form of Fishbed [(NATO code name) The Soviet MiG-21 aircraft.]
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A wide, shallow container or pallet.
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(rare or dialectal) Floor; bottom; lower surface.
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(informal, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.
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(military) Airhead, beachhead, bridgehead, lodgement.
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(Britain, mining) forefield
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(Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.
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(transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
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(Britain, dialects, obsolete) A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.
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A headland marking the limit of a field.
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The vertical measurement, top to bottom, for example for clearance under a bridge.
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(UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
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a row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge
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Alternative form of hellstrip [A strip of land between a sidewalk and a street.]
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A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes, hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered to impede the advance of an enemy.
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(UK) A temporary fence-like structure built around building work to add security and prevent accidents to the public.
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An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
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(zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
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Alternative form of knickpoint [(geomorphology) Part of a river or channel where there is a sharp change in slope, such as a waterfall or lake.]
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The flat bottom part of a plough.
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A traditional arrangement for arable cultivation in Britain, consisting of parallel banks of ridge and furrow with narrow drainage channels between them.
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A spring in the form of a curved length(s) of steel, used in the suspension of wheeled vehicles
n
Alternative form of leaf spring [A spring in the form of a curved length(s) of steel, used in the suspension of wheeled vehicles]
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Alternative form of lean-to [A shelter with a sloped roof; also a building with a similar construction attached to the side of a building as an extension.]
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(slang) A lege; a legend.
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(dialect) A shelter from the wind, particularly temporary structures raised by shepherds to protect their flocks.
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A type of dredger that ejects sand and sediment through a long stream.
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(Ireland) A boundary between pieces of land.
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A stone bulwark forming a haven or harbour; a breakwater.
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A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
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(Australia, regional) An area of grass beside a roadway, possibly with a few trees or shrubs, lying between the roadway proper and the footpath, if there is one; a tree lawn.
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An expedition for the purpose of having a picnic.
v
Alternative spelling of pigeonhole [To categorize; especially to limit or be limited to a particular category, role, etc.]
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A peninsula or promontory.
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(colloquial) The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond.
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(now regional) A small plot of land; historically: a strip of land that together with others like it formed a larger field.
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(obsolete, now dialect) The border of an area of land, especially marshland.
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A small part of land that controls access to another property.
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A deep furrow used for drainage.
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(transitive) To form into a ridge
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A small ridge, especially one composed of a curvelet
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(historical, agriculture) A strip of a townfield.
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(transitive) To plough into round ridges.
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A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
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(historical) A system of land tenure under which the alternate ridges of a field belonged to different owners.
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Alternative form of runridge [(historical) A system of land tenure under which the alternate ridges of a field belonged to different owners.]
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(informal, figuratively) An accompaniment.
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(obsolete) The sole of a plough.
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(shipbuilding) Synonym of spale
n
A head or end-piece for a carriage-spring.
adj
Fitted or cushioned with springs.
n
(obsolete) in a journey.
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Alternative form of steelyard (“portable scale”) [A transportable balance with unequal arm lengths.]
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(informal) Ellipsis of Strip District (“Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA”).
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Obsolete spelling of thrashing floor
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An open-topped fish tank that visitors are encouraged to feel the animals inside
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Alternative form of trailhead [The beginning of a trail, often specifically a hiking trail.]
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(Scotland) A winding stairway.
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(horse transport) A permanently emplaced stone block used to step up to a horse-drawn carriage to gain entry or exit from it
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(geology) A landform (typically a sand dune) having the form of the back of a whale.
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(by extension) A ridge or berm at a perimeter
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One of the projecting side pieces on a wingback chair.
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