n
(UK dialectal) A band of harvesters.
n
One who attacks violently and/or mindlessly.
v
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
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(logging, obsolete) Someone who follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled (also called a frogger).
v
(transitive) Obsolete spelling of chouse (“to cheat, to swindle”) [(obsolete, transitive) To cheat, to trick.]
v
(UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
n
One who, or that which, clobbers.
n
One who, or that which, clogs.
n
Alternative form of cratedigger [(slang) A person who habitually looks through crates of vinyl records at music shops, especially in pursuit of rare or interesting albums.]
n
(slang) A person who habitually looks through crates of vinyl records at music shops, especially in pursuit of rare or interesting albums.
n
(regional, Ireland, Scotland) an incursion for plunder, raid, forray
n
Alternative form of creach [(regional, Ireland, Scotland) an incursion for plunder, raid, forray]
n
Alternative spelling of cutthroat [A murderer who slits the throats of victims.]
n
(Scotland and Northern England, archaic) A blow, a heavy thump.
n
(US) A person who performs eefing.
n
One who excises, especially one who performs female genital cutting.
n
(UK, dialect) A remnant; an odd piece left over.
v
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To hang loosely; flag.
n
One who or that which flays.
n
A person who uses a garrote.
n
One who digs gault clay.
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Alternative form of gong scourer [(obsolete) One who dug out and removed human excrement from privies and cesspits.]
n
(Southeastern US) One who harvests food (such as tubers or peanuts) by digging it up with the hands.
n
(US, slang, derogatory) A student who engages in grade grubbing; someone seeking to improve their grades by sucking up or by trying to negotiate for any additional marks.
adj
(US, slang, derogatory) Engaging in grade grubbing.
v
To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
v
(transitive) To cut out the balls of the feet of (dogs) so as to render them unfit for hunting.
n
(dialect, UK and Newfoundland) An odd job; a piece of casual work.
v
(Ireland) To scrounge, to grub.
n
The act or process by which something is jammed.
n
A person or thing that lacerates.
n
One who lances something.
n
One who whips or lashes.
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(rare) One who uses a lasso.
n
(informal) One who grabs or snatches.
v
To obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock.
n
(Ireland, slang) Alternative form of peeler (policeman). [(Britain, Ireland, Australia, slang) A police officer.]
n
One who, or that which, planishes.
n
(dated) Any worn-out or useless article.
n
A skyscraper made (at least partly) of wood; a mass timber building.
v
(Scotland) To prick; to goad; to progue.
n
Alternative form of pumpkin head [(idiomatic, US, prison slang) A severe head injury resulting from a beating.]
v
(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) Of animals (especially sheep): to graze.
n
(obsolete, Scotland) A sword.
n
A person who, or thing that, rasps or scrapes.
n
(Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of rit [(Northern England, Scotland) A scratch, a score or a groove.]
n
(US, slang) One who roots for, or applauds, something.
v
(transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
n
One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
n
A warrior who collects the scalps of vanquished enemies.
n
One who skimps or does slipshod work.
n
One who shapes by grinding.
v
(archaic) To clean the rubbish from a street, etc.
n
(gerund) The act of searching through refuse for useful material.
n
(science fiction, slang) A scavenger; one who looks for discarded objects.
v
(chiefly Jewish) to scrounge, sponge, cadge
n
One who cuts with scissors.
n
(US, dialect) The oldsquaw.
n
(Oxford University slang) An act of sconcing; very similar to a fine at Cambridge University, though a sconce is the act of issuing a penalty rather than the penalty itself.
n
One who or that which scopes.
n
Alternative form of scauper [A tool with a semicircular edge, used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving.]
v
(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To barter or exchange.
v
Obsolete form of scorse. [(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To barter or exchange.]
n
Alternative spelling of Scouser [(Liverpudlian, colloquial) A Liverpudlian.]
v
Alternative form of scug [(Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To shelter; to protect.]
n
(obsolete) A rover or footpad; a prowling robber.
n
One who, or that which, scourges.
n
Obsolete spelling of scour [The removal of sediment caused by swiftly moving water.]
n
Obsolete form of scourer (“a robber”). [A tool used to scour, usually used to clean cookware.]
n
A person who scrapbooks.
n
A person who fights doggedly, who exhibits indomitable will.
n
(slang) A counterfeiter.
n
One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer.
n
One who screeves, or draws with chalks on a pavement or sidewalk.
n
One who scribbles; a hasty or untalented writer or artist.
n
(slang, Bay Area African-American Vernacular and Chicano) Money
n
(obsolete) A fencing master, fencer.
n
(countable) Someone who scrimshaws.
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(UK, military, slang) A shirker; one who scrimshanks.
n
Someone who scrounges; a scrounger.
n
(rugby) One who scrummages; usually used in reference to the qualities of front row forwards.
n
(obsolete) A scullion; a servant who does the cleaning, etc.
n
Alternative form of scuddler [(obsolete) A scullion; a servant who does the cleaning, etc.]
n
One who scuffs the feet.
n
(historical) A member of a local youth gang in working-class areas of Manchester, Salford, and surrounding townships during the late 19th century.
n
Alternative form of scuddick [(obsolete) Something of little or no importance; a whit or jot.]
n
(US, slang, dated) An exorbitant discount on a note.
n
(agriculture, rare) Synonym of stooker.
n
A person who takes shortcuts.
v
(obsolete) To scale; to mount
n
One who, or that which, skewers.
n
Alternative form of scrimmager [One who scrimmages.]
n
Alternative form of scrimshander [(countable) Someone who scrimshaws.]
n
Synonym of slasher movie
n
A person who or thing that slits.
n
One who cuts material into slivers.
v
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To plunder.
v
(transitive, informal) To devour greedily.
n
(figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To ensnare.
v
(Australia, New Zealand) To snatch.
v
(obsolete) To sniff out.
v
(transitive, usually followed by "down") To eat quickly or voraciously
n
(rare) The participant in a snuff film who is killed.
v
(transitive) To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To pounce upon.
v
(homeless slang) To search garbage for food.
v
Obsolete form of spulzie. [(Scotland) To plunder.]
n
One who, or that which, stabs.
v
(transitive) To direct a group of animals.
n
One who strews something.
v
(agriculture) To milk (a cow or other animal); especially, to squeeze the teat of (a cow, etc.) to extract the last bit of milk from the udder; to strap (dialectal), to strip.
n
One who or that which strops.
v
(transitive, chiefly Scotland) To beat with a tawse.
n
A person who occupies the threshold between places or statuses.
n
A tasty morsel (of food).
n
(dated) One who or that which trims, or rebukes or reproves; a scold.
v
(transitive, originally Polari, UK and Australia, slang) To tweak, finesse or improve (something); to make more appealing or exciting. Usually with up.
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