adj
Full of or covered (with something that crawls or moves as if crawling).
n
A long slender rod with a rake-like device on one end, sometimes in the form of a human hand, designed to let a person scratch their own back.
n
(Coastal Western US, chiefly Oregon) Shredded, ground, or chiped wood used for landscaping, gardening, or composting.
v
(transitive) To grind the edge of a tool to an acute angle.
v
(transitive) To cover with a screen, or as with a screen.
v
(transitive) To cover with thatch; thatch.
n
Alternative spelling of bort [Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond.]
n
(Scotland, Northern England) A torch used for signaling.
n
(Australia, Victoria) A stone thrown as a missile.
n
(UK dialectal) A small pool of water.
n
A loss of interest in buying a product in a crowded store if one is inadvertently touched from behind by another shopper passing by.
n
(obsolete) Wind-blown fallen wood.
n
(dialectal) The stump of a broken tooth; a tooth standing alone.
n
(obsolete) A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.
v
(transitive) To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed.
v
To work or hew (stone, etc.)
n
A hinder or molar tooth.
n
Alternative form of cheek tooth [A hinder or molar tooth.]
adj
(of wood) Tending to form chips when cut, rather than larger, more usable pieces of wood.
n
A kind of vise, usually of wood.
v
To compress or flatten underwater debris so as to avoid blocking a channel.
adj
Having a furrow of this kind.
v
To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.
v
To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
n
The act by which something is cut short or truncated.
n
Someone or something that crushes.
n
(countable, horticulture) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
n
A piece of something, especially something with an irregular shape.
n
A hollow or crack in timber.
n
Something or someone that removes hair.
n
The removal of shed hair from a dog or other animal, by brushing etc.
n
A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour.
adj
(slang) Showily adorned with jewellery or ornaments.
n
Alternative spelling of endscraper [(archaeology) A small, rounded flint tool used to scrape hides; sometimes fitted to a bone handle.]
n
A piece or strip cut off of something else, generally a piece of wood (timber).
v
(transitive) To make a nap on (cloth); to friz.
v
(rare, transitive, intransitive) To curl.
v
(historical, transitive) To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).
v
(transitive) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
n
The scarp of a ditch or moat.
adj
Furnished with a grate or grating.
v
(obsolete) To make a channel or groove; to form grooves.
n
The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
n
Alternative form of hairsplitter [A stickler person who makes extremely, possibly excessively, fine distinctions (who would separate something as fine as a hair into two pieces and distinguish them).]
n
A dense clump of grass or vegetation; a tussock.
adj
(slang) Having a tattoo or tattoos.
n
(Scotland, Northern England) A mark left by a splash of water or mud.
n
The portion or quantity (e.g. of wood, hay, turf, wool, etc.) removed or cut off in a given stroke.
n
(Scotland, Northern England) A pool of water, especially one below a waterfall.
n
(by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.
v
(intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
n
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
n
A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food.
v
(transitive) To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
adj
Having one or more nicks; notched.
v
(transitive) To dress the face of (a stone) with a sharp-pointed hammer.
adj
(masonry) Roughly shaped with a stonecutter's hammer; hammer-dressed.
n
Obsolete form of nozzle. [A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.]
n
A blob of toothpaste shaped like a wave, often depicted on toothpaste packaging.
v
(intransitive) To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
n
(Sussex) A body of water somewhere between a pond and a lake in size.
n
Alternative form of fleam [A sharp instrument used to open a vein, to lance gums, or the like.]
n
A small pond or pool; a puddle.
v
Alternative spelling of plouter [(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, dialect) To splash around in something wet; to dabble.]
v
(transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
v
(transitive) To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
n
(canal engineering) The act of lining a canal with puddle to make it watertight.
n
(specifically) A hole in a vehicle's tyre, causing the tyre to deflate.
n
A ragged edge in metalworking.
n
(UK, dialect) gravelly stone
n
(historical) A paste for spreading on a razor strop to render it sharp.
n
(archaic) A piece of split wood.
v
(transitive) To cut or shave off the mane of a horse so that the remaining hair stands up on the neck.
n
(countable, Australia, India, Brunei, New Zealand, UK) An eraser.
v
(obsolete) To weed with a hoe
v
(milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
n
(architecture, engineering) An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.
n
Metal scraps or clippings; especially the remains of fillets from which coin blanks have been cut.
v
(weaving) To create a scob.
n
An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud by drawing them across it.
n
Chiefly in the plural form screeds: a large quantity.
v
(transitive) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening
n
(UK, dialect) A rush (the plant).
n
(obsolete) A claw, a talon.
n
Obsolete form of shard. [A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.]
n
(obsolete) The top of the head.
n
(obsolete) A piece of wood (a thin board or plank, or a strip of wood split off); a measure of firewood, variously defined as e.g. four feet long and between 16 and 38 inches in circumference.
n
A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
n
(UK, dialect, archaic) Small fragments; smithereens.
v
(UK, dialect) To trim; to lop.
n
In quarrying, rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections; knobbing.
v
(rare) Synonym of scrimshaw
v
To split into strips by lengthwise cuts.
n
(regional US) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
n
(Lancashire) Wheel track.
adj
(UK dialectal) Divided.
n
(Britain) A muddy or marshy area.
n
A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
n
Alternative form of soger [(dated) A poor or lazy hand on a sailing vessel.]
v
Alternative form of soogee [(nautical, transitive) To clean with soogee.]
n
(obsolete) The blades of green corn, wheat or barley.
n
(Scotland) One who spaes or foretells; a diviner.
v
(Northern England and Scotland) To split.
n
A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone.
n
(obsolete, rare) The shoulder.
v
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To wean; to spean.
v
(intransitive, dialect, UK, Scotland) To leap; spring.
v
(transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
n
(Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) A chip of wood; a splinter.
n
Alternative form of speld (“chip, splinter”) [(Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) A chip of wood; a splinter.]
n
(Northern English) A wooden splinter caught under the skin.
n
(dialect, Northern England, Scotland) A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter.
n
Alternative form of spence [(UK, dialect, dated) A buttery or pantry]
n
(UK, archaic, dialect) A smelt; a sparling.
n
(obsolete or dialectal) A splinter.
n
Alternative form of spilikin [(cribbage) A small peg used for playing a game or for keeping score, as in cribbage.]
adj
Shot out long; said of antlers.
n
Obsolete form of splint (“excrescence of bone”). [A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.]
n
A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
v
(transitive) To shape or smooth with a spokeshave.
n
A quick clean of something with a sponge.
n
The hole from which a whale spouts.
n
A spacer or device for keeping two objects apart.
n
(countable, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A piece of tinder, sometimes impregnated with sulphur; a match.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To gall or wound with a spur.
n
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A tern.
n
A slice of squash impressed with a grid pattern in the manner of a waffle.
n
(slang) A person who uses a squeegee, especially one who "cleans" the windshield of a car stopped at a traffic light and then demands payment.
n
A squeegee; a scraper for removing liquid.
v
(transitive, agriculture (sericulture)) To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
n
(uncountable) The waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as metalworking, a saw cutting wood, or the use of a grindstone or whetstone.
n
Alternative letter-case form of Syrette [A collapsible tube with a hypodermic needle containing a single dose of a medicine.]
n
(usually in the plural) A strip of onion fried in batter, like an onion ring, but with a twisty shape.
n
(UK, dialect) A curve or bend.
n
(archaic or dialectal) A hole, an aperture, especially a nostril.
n
(UK, dialect, obsolete) Twenty-four (or in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
n
(historical) A person who would extract teeth for a small charge at fairs, etc.
v
(transitive) To clear (an area) of underbrush.
v
(UK, dialect) To cut the turf from, as for burning.
v
To mark with stripes; to wale.
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