HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (historical) A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve; to feel sad.

noun

1. (biochemistry) Alternative form of eRNA

noun

1. (chiefly poetic, dialectal, sciences) An eagle.
2. A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)

verb

1. (obsolete) To long; to yearn.

noun

1. plural of ern

noun

1. (psychiatry) collective instincts for self-preservation; life drive.
2. (psychiatry) libido
3. A winged figure of a child representing love and/or its power.
4. Physical love; sexual desire.
5. a type of love that seeks fulfillment without violation or something else.

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of err

adj

1. (obsolete) First.

adv

1. (archaic, poetic) Formerly, once, erstwhile.
2. (obsolete) First of all, before (some other specified thing).
3. (obsolete) Sooner (than); before.

noun

1. Obsolete form of ewer.

noun

1. A coin with a face value of one euro.
2. Abbreviation of European in any sense.
3. Macropus robustus, a wallaroo (macropod species).
4. The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: €

adj

1. (epidemiology) Occurring at any time, occurring even but once during a timespan.

adv

1. (informal) As intensifier following an interrogative word.
2. Always, frequently, forever.
3. Continuously, constantly, all the time (for the complete duration).
4. In any way.

det

1. (dialectal and informal) Shortening of every

noun

1. A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle.

noun

1. Alternative form of ewery

noun

1. One who eyes someone or something.

noun

1. A slender, reddish-yellow wild cat (Puma yagouaroundi eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas.

noun

1. (UK, law, historical) A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).

noun

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of eyrie

Proper noun

1. The fifteenth book of the Old Testament and a book of the Hebrew Tanakh.
2. A Jewish high priest from the fifth century.
3. name of biblical origin.

noun

1. (countable) A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
2. (countable) Money paid for a transport ticket.
3. (countable, UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
4. (obsolete) A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
5. (uncountable) Food and drink.
6. (uncountable) Supplies for consumption or pleasure.

verb

1. (intransitive) To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.
2. (intransitive) To move along; proceed; progress; advance
3. (intransitive, archaic) To eat, dine.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To go, travel.
5. (intransitive, impersonal) To happen well, or ill.

adj

1. (dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

noun

1. (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
2. (uncountable) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
3. (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.

verb

1. (intransitive) To feel fear.
2. (intransitive, used with for) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To be anxious or solicitous for.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To cause fear to; to frighten.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To suspect; to doubt.
6. (transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
7. (transitive) To regret.
8. (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.

adj

1. Alternative form of fear (“able, capable”)

noun

1. Alternative form of fere (“companion, friend, mate”)

adj

1. (Scotland, obsolete) Fourth.
2. (obsolete) Afraid.

noun

1. (Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) Effort, impetus, speed; a violent onset.
2. (obsolete) Fear.

adj

1. (obsolete) Fierce.

noun

1. (archaic) A person's spouse, or an animal's mate.
2. (dialectal or obsolete) A companion, comrade or friend.

verb

1. (UK) To rummage, in order to search for something; to dig amongst articles or move things aside in order to try and find something.
2. Alternative form of firk

noun

1. Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.

noun

1. (historical) The medieval chess piece that developed into the modern queen.

adj

1. (slang) Amazing; excellent.

noun

1. (astronautics) An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
2. (countable) A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
3. (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).
4. (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
5. (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
6. (countable, Britain) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
7. (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
8. (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
9. (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
10. A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
11. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
12. Red coloration in a piece of opal.
13. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
14. Strength of passion, whether love or hate.

verb

1. (astronautics) To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
2. (intransitive) To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
3. (intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
4. (intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.
5. (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
6. (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
7. (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
8. (transitive) To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
9. (transitive) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
10. (transitive) To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
11. (transitive) To set (something, often a building) on fire.
12. (transitive) To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
13. (transitive) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).
14. (transitive, by extension) To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
15. (transitive, farriery) To cauterize.
16. (transitive, intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
17. (transitive, mining) To set off an explosive in a mine.
18. (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
19. To animate; to give life or spirit to.
20. To feed or serve the fire of.

adj

1. (obsolete) Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous.
2. Forward; situated towards the front (of something).

adv

1. (nautical) In or towards the bows of a ship.
2. (obsolete) Formerly; previously; afore.
3. In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.

intj

1. (golf) An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.

noun

1. The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.

adj

1. (UK, law, obsolete) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
2. (botany, mycology) Not attached; loose.
3. (by extension, chiefly advertising slang) complimentary
4. (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.
5. (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
6. (law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.
7. (linguistics) (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.
8. (mathematics) Unconstrained by relators.
9. (mathematics, logic) Unconstrained by quantifiers.
10. (military) Of a rocket or missile: not under the control of a guidance system after being launched.
11. (obsolete) Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.
12. (programming) Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound.
13. (social) Unconstrained.
14. (software) Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version.
15. (software) With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.
16. Generous; liberal.
17. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said of a government, institutions, etc.
18. Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.
19. Not imprisoned or enslaved.
20. Obtainable without any payment.
21. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed.
22. Unattached or uncombined.
23. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust
24. Unobstructed, without blockages.
25. Without obligations.
26. Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.

adv

1. (obsolete) Freely; willingly.
2. Without needing to pay.

noun

1. (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
2. (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
3. (soccer) A free transfer.
4. (swimming, informal) Abbreviation of freestyle.

verb

1. (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release.
2. (transitive) To rid of something that confines or oppresses.
3. (transitive, programming) To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.

noun

1. (Internet slang) A fellow, a friend.
2. (alt-right, Internet slang) A fellow white nationalist or fascist, a comrade on the far right.
3. (obsolete) A stranger.
4. Pronunciation spelling of friend.

noun

1. (slang) frequency

noun

1. (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
2. (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
3. (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
4. (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
5. (obsolete or dialectal) A ferrule, a ring.
6. (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
7. A channel, a strait; a fretum.
8. Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
9. Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
10. An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
11. Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).

verb

1. (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
2. (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
3. (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
4. (intransitive, brewing, oenology) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
5. (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
6. (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
7. (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
8. (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
9. (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
10. (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
11. (transitive, intransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
12. (transitive, intransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
13. (transitive, obsolete or poetic) Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.
14. To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
15. To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
16. To press down the string behind a fret.

noun

1. (obsolete) A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow.
2. A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood.

noun

1. coarse wool on the legs of sheep

adj

1. (chiefly Liverpudlian) great or fantastic

noun

1. (aviation) Ellipsis of landing gear.
2. (countable) A wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other; a gear wheel.
3. (countable, automotive) A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.
4. (countable, automotive, cycling) A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.
5. (obsolete) Business matters; affairs; concern.
6. (obsolete) Goods; property; household items.
7. (obsolete, UK, dialect) Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
8. (uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
9. (uncountable, archaic) Stuff.
10. (uncountable, slang) Recreational drugs, including steroids.
11. Clothing; garments.

verb

1. (engineering, intransitive) To be in, or come into, gear.
2. (engineering, transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
3. (finance) To borrow money in order to invest it in assets.
4. (usually with to or toward(s)) To design or devise (something) so as to be suitable (for a particular type of person or a particular purpose).
5. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.

noun

1. Obsolete form of gear.

noun

1. A firework that produces a fountain of sparks

noun

1. (biology) The small mass of cells from which a part of an organism develops, or a macroscopic but immature form of that part; a bud.
2. (figurative) The origin or earliest version of an idea or project.
3. (mathematics) An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.
4. A pathogen: a pathogenic microorganism, such as a bacterium or virus.
5. The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ.

verb

1. (slang) To grow, as if parasitic.
2. To germinate.

noun

1. plural of ger

adj

1. (slang, West Country, Somerset, Bristol) big

adv

1. (slang, West Country, Somerset, Bristol) very

noun

1. Obsolete form of gyre.

noun

1. (Britain, slang) A person, often a woman, who enjoys sexual activity.
2. (dated) A horse, considered in reference to its gait.
3. (informal) Anything, especially a machine such as a motor car, that performs well, or operates successfully.
4. (obsolete) A foot (body part).
5. One who, or that which, goes.

noun

1. (heraldry) One of the abatements, made of two inwardly curved lines, meeting in the fesse point.
2. (obsolete except in dialects) Dirt; mud; filth.
3. (surveying) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
4. A projecting point.
5. A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.ᵂᵖ
6. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
7. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
8. Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
9. Murder, bloodshed, violence.
10. The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
2. (transitive, of an animal) To pierce with the horn.
3. To cut in a triangular form.
4. To provide with a gore.

noun

1. (archaic) Pleasure, goodwill, satisfaction.
2. (geometry, obsolete) A degree.
3. (now Scotland) Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).
4. (obsolete) A stage in a process; a degree of rank or station.
5. (obsolete) One of a flight of steps.

verb

1. (obsolete) To agree.

Proper noun

1. An English and Scottish male given name, diminutive of Gregory or Gregor (and sometimes derived from the surname Greig)

name

1. A program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.

verb

1. (by extension) To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).
2. (computing) To use a program such as grep to search in a file.

noun

1. plural of gre

verb

1. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of grow
2. Alternative form of grue (“shudder with fear”)
3. simple past tense of grow

noun

1. (biology) A multicellular aggregate of amoeba.
2. (horticulture) A kind of group used in horticultural nomenclature, applied to the progeny of an artificial cross from specified parents, in particular for orchids.

adj

1. (South Africa, slang) Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).
2. UK and Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.

adj

1. (linguistics) Green or blue.
2. (philosophy) Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.

noun

1. (slang) Nutraloaf, a bland mixture of foods served in prisons.
2. A fictional man-eating predator that dwells in the dark.
3. A shiver, a shudder.
4. Any byproduct of a gruesome event, such as gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts.

verb

1. (intransitive, archaic) To be frightened; to shudder with fear.

noun

1. (anatomy, zootomy, archaic) Synonym of gyrus (“a fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain”)
2. (oceanography) An ocean current caused by wind which moves in a circular manner, especially one that is large-scale and observed in a major ocean.
3. A circular or spiral motion; also, a circle described by a moving body; a revolution, a turn.
4. A swirling vortex.

verb

1. (intransitive) To spin around; to gyrate, to whirl.
2. (transitive, rare) To make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl.

adj

1. (regional) Cold, frosty (of weather).
2. (regional) Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people).

noun

1. Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears.
2. The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.

verb

1. (intransitive) To move swiftly.
2. (obsolete) To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.

intj

1. you hear me

verb

1. (intransitive, stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.
2. (transitive) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
3. (transitive) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
4. (transitive) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
5. (transitive) To receive information about; to come to learn of.
6. (transitive, informal) To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of.
7. (transitive, stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
8. (with from) To be contacted by.

noun

1. A Dutch lord.
2. A yarn measure of six hundred yards, or 1/24 of a spindle.

noun

1. A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.
2. One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.
3. Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To inherit.

noun

1. (uncommon) A female hero; a heroine, especially in lesbian or feminist circles.

noun

1. (countable) A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.
2. (countable) Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food.
3. (countable, US, slang) A lame or uncool person.
4. (countable, botany) A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season
5. (uncountable, obsolete) Grass; herbage.
6. (uncountable, slang) Cannabis.

noun

1. (now rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.
2. (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble.
3. A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
4. Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.

verb

1. (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
2. (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
3. (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
4. (transitive) To form or put into a herd.
5. (transitive) To manage, care for or guard a herd
6. (transitive) To move or drive a herd.
7. (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd

adj

1. Filler after a demonstrative pronoun but before the noun it modifies, solely for emphasis.
2. Filler after a noun or demonstrative pronoun, solely for emphasis.

adv

1. (abstract) In this context.
2. (location) In, on, or at this place.
3. (location) To this place; used in place of the more dated hither.
4. At this point in the argument, narration, or other, usually written, work.

intj

1. (Ireland, Britain, slang) Used for emphasis at the beginning of a sentence when expressing an opinion or want.
2. (slang) Used semi-assertively to offer something to the listener.

noun

1. (abstract) This place; this location.
2. (abstract) This time, the present situation.

noun

1. (fishing) an artificial fly made with this barb
2. (obsolete) a strand of hair
3. the fibrous shaft or barb of a feather (especially that of the ostrich or peacock) used to make artificial flies for angling

adj

1. Abbreviation of hermaphrodite.

noun

1. (sometimes derogatory) A hermaphrodite.
2. A rectangular pillar bearing a bust of Hermes, once used as a boundary marker and later as decoration.

noun

1. (dialectal or poetic) Heron.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) A corner of angular piece of land; a nook of land projecting into another district, parish, or field.
3. (now chiefly dialectal) A recess beside a wide chimney-fireside.
4. (now chiefly dialectal) Corner, nook.

pron

1. (obsolete outside Britain and US dialects, especially Appalachia) Hers; her own.

noun

1. (US) A large sandwich made from meats and cheeses; a hero sandwich.
2. (film, photography, chiefly attributive) The product chosen from several candidates to be photographed, as in food advertising, or with props used in a movie.
3. (poker) The current player, especially an hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare: villain (“any opponent player”). Not to be confused with hero call (“a weak call against a supposed bluff”).
4. (web design) The eye-catching top portion of a web page, sometimes including a hero image; the portion above the fold.
5. A role model.
6. Somebody who possesses great bravery and carries out extraordinary or noble deeds.
7. The protagonist in a work of fiction.

noun

1. (colloquial) A reptile or amphibian.
2. (colloquial) Herpes.

noun

1. plural of her

pron

1. That which belongs to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun.

noun

1. (obsolete) Reward, payment.
2. A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
3. Payment for the temporary use of something.
4. The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.

verb

1. (intransitive) To accept employment.
2. (transitive) (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job
3. (transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.
4. (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
5. (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
6. (transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.

noun

1. One who hoes.

noun

1. A balker or conder; one who watches shoals of fish so that they can be caught.
2. One who cries out or gives an alarm.

Noun

1. Someone who uses instant messaging.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of ire

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ire

noun

1. (anatomy) A passage, especially the passage between the third and fourth ventricles in the brain; the cerebral aqueduct.

adv

1. (dialectal) Alternative spelling of ever

noun

1. (nautical, attributive) jears

noun

1. (nautical) A gear; a tackle.
2. (nautical, in the plural) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship.
3. A mocking remark or reflection.

verb

1. (intransitive, with at) To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.
2. (transitive, archaic) To mock; treat with mockery; to taunt.

noun

1. (Canada, US, slang, derogatory) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable.
2. (Caribbean, Jamaica) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
3. (Caribbean, Jamaica) Meat (or sometimes vegetables) cured by jerking, in which it is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; charqui.
4. (Jamaica) a style of cooking in which the main ingredient—which most often is chicken but may also be beef, pork, goat, boar, seafood, or vegetables—is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; the resulting smoke is key to the flavour of the dish. (Compare jerky.)
5. (US, slang, derogatory) A dull or stupid person.
6. (obsolete) A soda jerk.
7. (physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
8. (weightlifting) A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time.
9. A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
10. A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.

verb

1. (US, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
2. (intransitive) To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
3. (obsolete) To beat, to hit.
4. (obsolete) To flout with contempt.
5. (obsolete) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
6. (transitive) To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
7. (usually transitive, weightlifting) To lift using a jerk.
8. To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.

noun

1. Alternative form of kier

noun

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) The raised edge between the pavement and the roadway, typically made of concrete though originally consisting of a line of kerbstones.
2. A stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb.
3. Alternative form of curb (“raised margin along the edge of a well, etc.”)

verb

1. (Britain, transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tyres by running into or over a pavement kerb.
2. To take a dog to the kerb for the purpose of evacuating.

noun

1. (now rare) The act of cutting or carving something; a stroke or slice.
2. The distance between diverging saw teeth.
3. The flattened, cut-off end of a branch or tree; a stump or sawn-off cross-section.
4. The groove or slit created by cutting or sawing something; an incision.
5. The portion or quantity (e.g. of wood, hay, turf, wool, etc.) removed or cut off in a given stroke.

verb

1. To cut a piece of wood or other material with several kerfs to allow it to be bent.

noun

1. (Judaism) Alternative form of kere

noun

1. Alternative form of carl

noun

1. (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.
2. (hot metal printing, typography) Any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter.
3. (obsolete or Ireland) A boor; a low person.
4. (obsolete or dialect) A corn; grain; kernel.
5. (obsolete or dialect) A doll or figurine raised in celebration of a successful harvest; kern-baby.
6. (obsolete or dialect) The harvest home.
7. (obsolete or dialect) The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest.
8. (obsolete, UK) An idler; a vagabond.
9. A churn.
10. Alternative form of quern

verb

1. (typography, chiefly proportional font printing) To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text, according to preset rules.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Kerosene.
2. A type of wooden drinking vessel produced by the Incas.

noun

1. A bleaching vat.