HANGMAN SOLVER

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of ake

noun

1. Alternative spelling of ackee

Proper noun

1. A Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Burma, China, and neighboring countries.

adj

1. (of persons) Of the same kin; related by blood.
2. (often followed by to) Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of accra

noun

1. Alternative spelling of alkie

adv

1. In a frenzy of violence, or on a killing spree; berserk.
2. Out of control, especially when armed and dangerous.

noun

1. One who runs amok; in Malay and Moro/Philippine culture, one who attempts to kill many others, especially expecting that they will be killed themselves.
2. The act of running amok.

verb

1. Synonym of run amok

noun

1. A cross shaped like a T with a loop at the top, the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the Egyptian triliteral ꜥnḫ (“life”) and often used as an amulet or charm for this concept.
2. A tau cross.

noun

1. A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Middle East.
2. A toothbrush tree (Salvadora persica).
3. Alternative spelling of arrack (an alcoholic drink distilled from coconut palm flowers in South Asia)

noun

1. plural of ark

noun

1. plural of ask

verb

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

noun

1. plural of auk

adj

1. (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
2. (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
3. At or near the rear.
4. In arrears; overdue.
5. Moving or operating backward.
6. Not current.
7. Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.

adv

1. (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
2. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
3. (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
4. Away from someone or something; at a distance.
5. Away from the front or from an edge.
6. In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
7. In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
8. In a manner that impedes.
9. So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
10. So as to reverse direction and return.
11. To a later point in time. See also put back.
12. Towards, into or in the past.

noun

1. (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
2. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
3. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
4. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
5. (obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)
6. (printing) The inside margin of a page.
7. (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
8. (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
9. (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
10. (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
11. A ferryboat.
12. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
13. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
14. A support or resource in reserve.
15. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
16. Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
17. That which is farthest away from the front.
18. The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
19. The edge of a book which is bound.
20. The part of something that goes last.
21. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
22. The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
23. The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
24. The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
25. The spine and associated tissues.

postp

1. Before now; ago.

verb

1. (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
2. (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one's back.
3. (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
4. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
5. (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
6. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
7. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
8. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
9. (transitive) To push or force backwards.
10. (transitive) To support.
11. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
12. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
13. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
14. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
15. To row backward with (oars).
16. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.

adj

1. (anime and manga, fandom slang) Stupid; silly.

noun

1. (voodoo) An evil spirit in Haitian belief, often in the form of an animal.

noun

1. (Barbados, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted).
2. (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
3. (especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
4. Any food item that is baked.
5. The act of cooking food by baking.

verb

1. (computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
2. (figurative, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.
3. (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.
5. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
6. (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
7. (transitive or intransitive or ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
8. (transitive) To dry by heat.
9. (transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.
10. (transitive, obsolete) To harden by cold.

noun

1. (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
2. (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
3. (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
4. (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
5. (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
6. (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
7. (obsolete) An omission.
8. (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
9. A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
10. A sudden and obstinate stop.
11. Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".

verb

1. (archaic) To pass over or by.
2. (obsolete) To miss intentionally; to avoid.
3. (sports, intransitive) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
4. To disappoint; to frustrate.
5. To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
6. To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
7. To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
8. To leave or make balks in.
9. To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
10. To refuse suddenly.
11. To stop short and refuse to go on.
12. To stop, check, block.

noun

1. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
2. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
3. (computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
4. (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
5. (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.
6. (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
7. (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
8. (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
9. (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
10. (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
11. (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
12. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
13. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
14. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
15. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
16. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
17. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
18. (nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
19. (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
20. (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
21. (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
22. A bench or seat for judges in court.
23. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
24. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
25. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
26. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
27. The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc

verb

1. (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
2. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
3. (rail transport, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
4. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
5. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
6. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
7. (transitive) To put into a bank.
8. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
9. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
10. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
11. (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
2. (figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
3. (medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
4. (nautical) A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
5. (obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
6. (poetic) A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
7. Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
8. The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
9. The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
10. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
2. (intransitive) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
3. (transitive) To speak sharply.
4. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
5. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
6. To girdle.
7. To strip the bark from; to peel.

verb

1. (figurative) To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in").
2. To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat.

noun

1. (architecture) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
2. (botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
3. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
4. (farriery) A toe clip.
5. (nautical) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
6. (nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
7. (slang) The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
8. (slang, Britain) A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
9. (slang, British public schools) A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
10. (slang, Southern England) cocaine.
11. A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
12. A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc.
13. Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
14. The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
15. The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
16. The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.

verb

1. (intransitive, Northern Ireland) To play truant.
2. (transitive) Seize with the beak.
3. (transitive) Strike with the beak.

noun

1. (Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
2. A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
3. A vat.
4. Obsolete form of beak.

verb

1. (archaic) To nod or motion with the head.

noun

1. (informal) Clipping of beekeeper.

noun

1. an ancient Biblical unit of weight, half a shekel

noun

1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory, vulgar) Synonym of cunt in its various senses, (now especially somewhat endearing) a fool, a prat, a twit, etc.

Proper noun

1. A small island north of New Guinea.
2. A language spoken on this island and others near it.

noun

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.
2. (chiefly Scotland, by extension, collective) A crowd of people.
3. (slang, derogatory) Ellipsis of village bike.
4. Clipping of bicycle.
5. Clipping of motorbike.

verb

1. (intransitive) To ride a bike.
2. (intransitive) To travel by bike.
3. (transitive) To transport by bicycle.

noun

1. A virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite.
2. The plant itself.

noun

1. (cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
2. (obsolete) A cheat or swindler.
3. (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.

verb

1. (intransitive, UK) To steal fuel from a self-service filling station by driving away without paying after filling the fuel tank or other container; to commit a drive-off.
2. (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
3. (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
4. (transitive, archaic) To evade, elude.

noun

1. (UK, Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A bench.

noun

1. (Britain, slang) Alternative spelling of berk
2. (Northern England) A birch tree.
3. A Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, syn. Leuciscus phoxinus).

noun

1. (sports) Alternative form of bisque (“extra turn”)
2. Alternative form of bisque (“kind of soup”)

verb

1. (Scotland) To retch or vomit.
2. (obsolete) To burp.

noun

1. A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.

verb

1. (intransitive) To retch or vomit.
2. (transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal) To thrust or push out; butt; poke.

noun

1. (dated, West Midlands, originally boxing) The nose.

verb

1. (intransitive) To belch.
2. (intransitive) To gush out.
3. (intransitive) To heave.
4. (intransitive) To vomit; retch.
5. (transitive) To belch out; give vent to; ejaculate.

noun

1. (countable) An animal call resembling "bonk", for example, the call of the pobblebonk.
2. (informal, countable) A bump on the head.
3. (informal, countable) Any minor collision or blow.
4. (informal, countable, chiefly UK) An act of sexual intercourse.
5. (informal, uncountable) A condition of sudden, severe fatigue in an endurance sports event caused by glycogen depletion.

verb

1. (informal) To strike or collide with something.
2. (informal, chiefly UK) To have sexual intercourse.
3. (informal, sports) To experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion.
4. (skateboarding, snowboarding) To hit something with the front of the board, especially in midair.

noun

1. (advertising, informal) A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
2. (cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
3. (chess, uncountable) The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.
4. (figurative) Any source of instruction.
5. (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
6. (informal) A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
7. (law, colloquial) A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
8. (poker slang) Four of a kind.
9. (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
10. (sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
11. (theater) The script of a musical or opera.
12. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
13. (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
14. (with "the") The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
15. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
16. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
17. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
18. A major division of a long work.

verb

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake
2. (intransitive, slang) To leave.
3. (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.
4. (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
5. (sports) To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
6. (transitive) To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
7. (transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.
8. (transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
9. (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
10. To record bets as bookmaker.

noun

1. (Internet slang, humorous) The sound a dog makes.
2. (informal) The bald notothen or bald rockcod (Pagothenia borchgrevinki), a species of cod icefish (Nototheniidae) native to the Southern Ocean.

verb

1. (Internet slang, humorous) (of a dog) To bark
2. (intransitive, slang) To become broken or damaged, especially of a computer or other complex device.
3. (transitive, intransitive, US politics, often derogatory) To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
4. (transitive, slang) To misconfigure, break, or damage, especially a computer or other complex device.
5. (vulgar, slang) To boink.

noun

1. (archaic) A thicket; a small wood.
2. (obsolete except dialectal) A bush.

noun

1. (UK dialectal or obsolete) The belly.
2. (UK dialectal) The carcass of a slaughtered animal.
3. (UK dialectal) The trunk or torso of the body, hence the body itself.

verb

1. (Tyneside) To belch, to burp.
2. (UK) To vomit.

noun

1. (African-American Vernacular, dated, dance) Synonym of buck dance.
2. (Britain, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
3. (Scotland) The beech tree.
4. (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
5. (UK, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
6. (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
7. (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
8. (US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
9. (US, slang) One hundred.
10. (by extension in the US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
11. (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
12. (dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
13. (dated, slang) A kind of large marble in children's games.
14. (finance) One million dollars.
15. (informal, rare) A euro.
16. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
17. A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
18. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
19. A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
20. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
21. Clipping of buckshot.
22. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
23. Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”)
24. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

verb

1. (chiefly Ireland, humorous or euphemistic) To fuck.
2. (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
3. (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
4. (intransitive) To bend; buckle.
5. (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
6. (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
7. (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
8. (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
9. (mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
10. (riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
11. (transitive, by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
12. (transitive, military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
13. (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
14. To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
15. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

noun

1. (music) The short introduction to a gamelan piece, generally played by a single instrument in a free rhythm, with the kendhang coming in on the last few notes to set the tempo.
2. A kangaroo-skin cloak traditionally worn by the Noongar people of southwestern Australia.

adj

1. being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.)
2. total

noun

1. (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
2. (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
3. (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
4. (countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
5. (obsolete) The body.
6. (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
7. Any huge body or structure.
8. Dietary fibre.
9. Size, specifically, volume.
10. The major part of something.

verb

1. (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
2. (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
3. (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
4. (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To add bulk to, to bulk out.

adj

1. (slang) Defective, broken, not functioning properly.

noun

1. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
2. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
3. (military) A cot.
4. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
5. (slang) A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
6. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
7. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.

verb

1. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').
2. (dated) To expel from a school.
3. (slang) To depart; scram.
4. To occupy a bunk.
5. To provide a bunk.

verb

1. (Southern US, slang, intransitive) To vomit.

noun

1. (by extension) A corset.
2. (obsolete) A kind of linen.
3. A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.

verb

1. (intransitive) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
3. (nautical) To tack, cruise about.
4. (obsolete) To go; to direct one's course.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.

noun

1. A discordant note.
2. A squawk.
3. An act of defecation.
4. Excrement.
5. Rubbish.

verb

1. (Australian slang) To laugh.
2. (US, slang) To kill.
3. (brass instrument technique) To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
4. (intransitive) To defecate.
5. (of a bird) To squawk.
6. (transitive) To defecate (on); to shit.

noun

1. (pyrotechnics) A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
2. (slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.
3. (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
4. (slang) Money.
5. A block of any of various dense materials.
6. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
7. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
8. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
9. Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.

verb

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete, intransitive) To cackle like a goose.
2. (intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
3. (transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
4. (transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.

adj

1. Resembling cake in texture.

noun

1. A pointed projection on a horseshoe to prevent its slipping.
2. A spike on the sole of a boot to prevent slipping, particularly used in logging

verb

1. (possibly dated) Alternative spelling of caulk
2. To copy (a drawing) by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt stylus or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
3. To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.

noun

1. (obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
2. (obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.

verb

1. (intransitive) To labor anxiously.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
3. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
4. Pronunciation spelling of caulk.
5. See cark it.

noun

1. (obsolete) A casket; a small box for jewels.
2. A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
3. Obsolete form of casque (“visorless helmet”).

verb

1. To put into a cask.

noun

1. (mineralogy) An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar.

noun

1. (slang) Pronunciation spelling of cock (in the sense of penis).
2. Alternative form of cauk

noun

1. (nautical) the brass bearing in the sheave of a block
2. A wooden dowel.
3. Obsolete spelling of coke (coal fuel)

verb

1. To unite (timbers etc.) by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or face.

intj

1. (slang) Expression of annoyance.

name

1. (obsolete) A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.

noun

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
2. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
3. (Southern US, where it is now rare and dated; and African-American Vernacular, where it is still sometimes used) Vulva, vagina.
4. (colloquial, vulgar) The penis.
5. (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
6. (dated, often humorous) A chief person; a leader or master, or (formerly, now obsolete) a leading thing.
7. (informal) Shuttlecock.
8. (slang, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania) A man; a fellow, especially as a term of address.
9. A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
10. A cock pigeon.
11. A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
12. A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
13. A small conical pile of hay.
14. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
15. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
16. Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.
17. The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
18. The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
19. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
20. The indicator of a balance.
21. The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
22. The style or gnomon of a sundial.

verb

1. (Britain, transitive, slang) To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
2. (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
3. (intransitive, dated) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
4. (intransitive, dated) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
5. (transitive) To erect; to turn up.
6. (transitive) To form into piles.
7. (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
8. (transitive, intransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
9. (transitive, obsolete) To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).

noun

1. (US, chiefly Southern US, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).
2. (countable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
3. (informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
4. (uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
5. (uncountable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).

verb

1. (especially automotive, astronautics) To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.
2. (intransitive) To turn into coke.
3. (transitive) To produce coke from coal.

adj

1. Resembling or containing coke (coal residue).

noun

1. (US, dated) A hairstyle involving the chemical straightening and styling of kinky hair.
2. (slang) A nose, especially a large one.
3. Alternative spelling of conch
4. The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.

verb

1. (US, dated) To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.
2. (colloquial, often with out) To become unconscious.
3. (colloquial, often with out) To fail or show signs of failing, cease operating, break down.
4. (slang) To hit, especially on the head.

noun

1. (cooking) A person who prepares food.
2. (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food
3. (cooking) The head cook of a manor house
4. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
5. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
6. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

verb

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To throw.
2. (intransitive) To be cooked.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
4. (intransitive, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
5. (intransitive, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
6. (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
7. (slang) To execute by electric chair.
8. (transitive or intransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
9. (transitive, slang) To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
10. To concoct or prepare.
11. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

adj

1. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

noun

1. (botany) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
2. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
3. (uncountable) The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
4. A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
5. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
6. The cork oak, Quercus suber.

verb

1. (fishing) To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
2. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.
3. (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
4. (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
5. (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
6. (transitive, baseball) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
7. To fill with cork.
8. To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.

noun

1. (derogatory, slang) A weakling.
2. (derogatory, slang) One who meekly and submissively acts against their own interests, or those of their own race, gender, class, religion, etc.
3. (slang) A cuckold or (uncommon) cuckquean.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To punish (someone) by putting them in a cucking stool.
2. (slang, transitive) To cuckold, to be sexually unfaithful towards.
3. (slang, transitive) To turn into a cuckold or cuckquean, to cheat with the partner of (someone).
4. (slang, transitive, derogatory) To fool and thus lower the status of, to exploit the trust or tolerance of (to one's own benefit and the other's disadvantage); to make into a cuck (one who acts against their own interests).
5. (slang, transitive, derogatory) To weaken or emasculate.

noun

1. (informal) A cucumber.

noun

1. A marine cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, Brosme brosme.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Trousers or underwear.
2. plural of dak

noun

1. (now rare) A hollow or depression.
2. A pin; brooch; clasp.

adj

1. (figuratively, of marijuana) Moist and sticky, (by extension) highly potent.
2. (slang, often ironic) Great, awesome.
3. Dark, damp and humid.

noun

1. (historical) A small silver coin formerly used in Persia.
2. (slang) Strong, high-quality cannabis.
3. Moisture; humidity; water.

verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc.

adj

1. (broadcasting, of a television station) Off the air; not transmitting.
2. (gambling, of race horses) Having racing capability not widely known.
3. (of a source of light) Extinguished.
4. (of a time period) Lacking progress in science or the arts.
5. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
6. Ambiguously or unclearly expressed: enigmatic, esoteric, mysterious, obscure, undefined.
7. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
8. Deprived of sight; blind.
9. Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
10. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
11. Marked by or conducted with secrecy: hidden, secret; clandestine, surreptitious.
12. Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension: caliginous, darkling, dim, gloomy, lightless, sombre.
13. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
14. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.

noun

1. (uncountable) Ignorance.
2. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
3. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

verb

1. (intransitive) To grow or become dark, darken.
2. (intransitive) To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
3. (transitive) To make dark, darken; to obscure.

noun

1. A hollow or crack in timber.
2. Alternative form of dak (“Indian post system”)
3. Archaic form of dhak (“the tree Butea monosperma”).

verb

1. (transitive) To cut or mark with an incision; gash.
2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To dig up weeds.
3. (transitive, UK dialectal) To drive a sharp instrument into; incise with a jerk; puncture.

noun

1. (aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
2. (card games) A pack or set of playing cards.
3. (card games, by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
4. (colloquial) The floor.
5. (journalism) A headline consisting of one or more actual lines of text.
6. (nautical) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
7. (obsolete) A heap or store.
8. (slang) A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
9. (theater) The stage.
10. A set of slides for a presentation.
11. Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
12. Short for tape deck.

verb

1. (card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
2. (informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
3. (transitive) To cover; to overspread.
4. (transitive, sometimes with out) To decorate (something).
5. (transitive, sometimes with out) To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance.
6. (uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.

noun

1. (Tyneside) A look.

verb

1. (Tyneside) To look.

noun

1. (Canada, slang) A quick detour.
2. (ice hockey) A feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or defenceman.
3. As in hockey, a fake or other move to confuse other players on a team.

verb

1. (Canada) To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery.
2. (ice hockey) To execute a deke in ice hockey or other sports.

noun

1. A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
2. A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.
3. A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
4. Short for mixing desk.

verb

1. (transitive) To equip with a desk or desks.
2. (transitive) To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

noun

1. An Indian percussion instrument, a large membranophone.
2. Butea monosperma, a tree of southern Asia.

noun

1. (countable and uncountable, vulgar, slang) The penis.
2. (countable, Britain, US, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang, derogatory) A highly contemptible person; a jerk.
3. (countable, obsolete) A male person.
4. (countable, slang) A detective, esp. the one who works in police, a police officer.
5. (dated, US, slang) A detective.
6. (obsolete) A declaration.
7. (uncountable, US, Canada, vulgar, slang, uncommon) Absolutely nothing.
8. (uncountable, vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse with a man.

num

1. (Cumbria) Ten, in Cumbrian sheep counting.

verb

1. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To mistreat or take advantage of somebody (often with around or up).
2. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

noun

1. (countable) A tree of species Irvingia gabonensis.
2. (uncountable) A West African food made from the almond-like seeds of Irvingia gabonensis.

noun

1. (US dialect slang, obsolete) A well-dressed man.
2. (US dialect slang, obsolete) Formalwear or other fashionable dress.
3. (chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke: ditch; embankment; waterway; etc.
4. Alternative form of dyke: (slang, usually derogatory) a masculine woman; a lesbian.

verb

1. (US dialect slang, obsolete) To be well dressed.
2. (chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc.

adj

1. (Australia, New Zealand) Genuine, proper, fair dinkum.
2. (Australia, New Zealand) Honest, fair, true.
3. (US, military) Alternative spelling of dinq
4. (archaic or dialectal) Finely dressed, elegant; neat.

adv

1. (Australia, New Zealand) Honestly, truly.

noun

1. (Australia, Northern England) Hard work, especially one's share of a task.
2. (Australia, colloquial) A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle.
3. (Canada, US, colloquial, slang) A foolish person, a despised person.
4. (Canada, US, colloquial, slang) A penis.
5. (US) Initialism of double income no kids..
6. (US, military slang, derogatory, dated) A North Vietnamese soldier.
7. (historical, dated) A soldier from Australia or New Zealand, a member of the ANZAC forces during the First World War.
8. (pickleball) A soft drop shot played at or near the non-volley zone.
9. (soccer) A light chip; a chipped pass or shot
10. (tennis) A soft drop shot.

verb

1. (Australia, colloquial) To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.
2. (pickleball) To play a soft drop shot at or near the non-volley zone.
3. (soccer) To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot.
4. (tennis) To play a soft drop shot.

noun

1. (Midwestern US, dated, slang) A penis; dork.
2. (Midwestern US, dated, slang) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball.
3. A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade.

verb

1. (obsolete) To darken.
2. To stab with a dirk.

noun

1. (agriculture) A type of harrow.
2. (anatomy) An intervertebral disc
3. (botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
4. (computer hardware) Ellipsis of floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.
5. (computer hardware, nonstandard) A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium.
6. (dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
7. (figuratively) Something resembling a disk.
8. A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

verb

1. (agriculture) To harrow.
2. (aviation, of an aircraft's propeller) To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximising the drag generated by the propeller.

noun

1. (computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
2. (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
3. (nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
4. (obsolete) The buttocks or anus.
5. (theater) Short for scene-dock.
6. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
7. A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
8. A section of a hotel or restaurant.
9. A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
10. An act of docking; joining two things together.
11. Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
12. Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
13. The body of water between two piers.
14. The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
15. The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
16. The place of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.

verb

1. (astronautics) To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
2. (cooking) To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
3. (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
4. (intransitive, sex) To engage in the sexual practice of docking (where the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant).
5. (transitive) To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
6. (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
7. (transitive) To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
8. (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
9. (transitive, computing) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
10. To join two moving items.

noun

1. (South Africa) A cloth.
2. (South Africa) A kopdoek: a kerchief or bandanna worn as a head covering.

noun

1. (UK, dialect) A dimple or dint.

noun

1. (archaic) A lepidosiren.

adj

1. (Northern England, Scotland) damp; moist; wet

noun

1. (Australia, slang) A car's engine.
2. (Australia, slang) A fool.
3. (Britain, uncountable) A sub-genre of Scouse house music containing distinctive percussion sounds.
4. (Northern England, Scotland) A dense mist or drizzle
5. (Northern England, Scotland) A mouldy dampness; mouldiness
6. (Northern England, Scotland) dampness; moistness
7. (poker, slang, derogatory) A poor player who makes mistakes.
8. (slang) A donkey (the animal).
9. A 1971 to 1976 Chevrolet Caprice or Impala that has been modified, usually by being raised and given bigger wheels.

verb

1. (Australia, colloquial, slang) To provide a second person with a lift on a bicycle (formerly, on a horse), seating the passenger either in front (on the handlebar) or behind (sharing the seat); to travel as a passenger in such manner.
2. (Northern England, Scotland) To drizzle
3. (Northern England, Scotland) To moisten; dampen
4. (poker slang) To make a donk bet.
5. (slang, transitive) To hit
6. (slang, transitive, Canada, US) To mess around, to play

noun

1. (Scotland) A plug of wood driven into a wall to hold a nail, etc.
2. (UK dialectal) a strong, untwilled linen or cotton.
3. (slang) dookie; feces
4. A certain clucking sound made by ferrets.

verb

1. (dialect) Alternative form of duck (verb)
2. (of a ferret) To make a certain clucking sound.

noun

1. (archaic) Alternative form of dirk (“a long dagger”)
2. (derogatory, slang) A quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with contemporary trends. Often confused with nerd and geek, but does not imply the same level of intelligence.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of dreck

noun

1. (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
2. (UK, slang, obsolete) A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
3. (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
4. (caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
5. (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
6. (finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”)
7. (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
8. (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men.
9. (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
10. (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
11. A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
12. A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
13. A term of endearment; pet; darling.
14. A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
15. An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
16. One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
17. Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.

verb

1. (intransitive) To bow.
2. (intransitive) To enter a place for a short moment.
3. (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
4. (intransitive) To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
5. (transitive) To evade doing something.
6. (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
7. (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
8. (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

noun

1. (Kenya) A shop, store.

noun

1. (slang, usually in the plural) A fist.
2. A grand duke.
3. A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom.
4. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Bassarona and Dophla.
5. The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess).
6. The sovereign of a small state.

verb

1. (slang, transitive) To give cash to; to give a tip to.
2. (transitive, informal) To hit or beat with the fists.

noun

1. The act or instance of dunking, particularly in basketball.

verb

1. (intransitive, Internet slang) To put down on social media [+ on (object)].
2. (transitive, intransitive, basketball) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power.
3. To set down carelessly.
4. To submerge briefly in a liquid.

adj

1. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

noun

1. A darkish colour.
2. A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight.
3. The condition of being dusky; duskiness

verb

1. (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
2. (transitive) To make dusk.

noun

1. (dialect) A jetty; a pier.
2. (dialect) Any fence or hedge.
3. (dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
4. (dialect) Any small body of water.
5. (dialect) Any watercourse.
6. (dialect, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
7. (figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
8. (geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
9. (historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
10. (now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
11. (now chiefly Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
12. (obsolete) A city wall.
13. (obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.
14. (slang, usually derogatory, loosely, offensive) A non-heterosexual woman.
15. (slang, usually derogatory, offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
16. A beaver's dam.
17. A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
18. A raised causeway.
19. An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
20. An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.

verb

1. (transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
2. (transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
3. (transitive) To scour a watercourse.
4. (transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
5. (transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
6. (transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of eke

noun

1. One who ekes.

verb

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

noun

1. (India) A small vehicle used in India, pulled by a single horse.

Noun

1. An ethnic group of southeastern Nigeria.

noun

1. (obsolete) The European wild, whistling, or common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus).
2. Obsolete form of elk.