HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (regional, now rare) A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
2. Obsolete form of acre.

noun

1. (obsolete) Salty or brackish water.
2. A flaw in cloth.
3. An opening caused by the parting of a solid body; a crack or breach.
4. Barmbrack.

adj

1. (colloquial, African-American Vernacular, New England, of weather) Extremely cold.

noun

1. (UK, naval, slang) A projectile.
2. (basketball, slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
3. (computing slang, figurative) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
4. (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
5. (countable) Something shaped like a brick.
6. (firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
7. (informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
8. (poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
9. (slang) A kilogram of cocaine.
10. (slang, dated) A helpful and reliable person.
11. (uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
12. The colour brick red.

verb

1. (intransitive, slang) To blunder; to screw up.
2. (transitive) To build, line, or form with bricks.
3. (transitive) To make into bricks.
4. (transitive, computing slang) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
5. (transitive, slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.

noun

1. (UK) a male badger.
2. (archaic, possibly obsolete) A brocket, a stag between two and three years old.
3. (obsolete) A dirty, stinking fellow.

noun

1. One who forms something into a cake.

noun

1. Alternative form of chakra

noun

1. plural of cark

noun

1. (US, Alaska) A wine glass.
2. A Middle Eastern falcon, probably the lanner.
3. A pointed stick, which when placed with the point against another piece of wood, and spun rapidly in alternate directions with the aid of attached cords, produces enough heat by friction to create a fire; a fire drill.
4. Charcoal; coke.

verb

1. (Scotland) To make a grating sound.
2. To reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine.

adj

1. (colloquial, US, chiefly New England) lively; cheerful; in good spirits

noun

1. the sound of a spoon rapidly whisking around a pot or basin.

verb

1. (intransitive, especially as "chirk up") To become happier.
2. (transitive, especially as "chirk up") To make happier.
3. To make the sound of a bird; to chirp.

Proper noun

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3. a city in South Dakota, USA, and county seat of Clark County.

noun

1. (Quakerism) A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.
2. (archaic) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk).
3. (dated) A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is "Clerk in Holy Orders", still used in legal documents and cherished by some of their number).
4. (obsolete) A scholar.
5. A law clerk.
6. A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market.
7. An employee at a hotel who deals with guests.
8. One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

verb

1. The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.
2. To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk

noun

1. (category theory, informal) cokernel
2. (derogatory, slang) A cocaine addict, a cokehead
3. The industrial plant in which coke is manufactured

noun

1. plural of cork

verb

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

adj

1. Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled.
2. Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.

noun

1. (Australia, slang) A deep bruise, usually on the leg or buttock, caused by a blow; a haematoma.

adj

1. Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
2. Highly trained and competent.

noun

1. (Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
2. (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
3. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business; events; news.
4. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
5. (archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
6. (archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
7. (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
8. (figurative, humorous) Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
9. (hydrodynamics, US, dated) An expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the shock wave through the air above the water.
10. (informal) An attempt at something.
11. (informal) The space between the buttocks.
12. (obsolete) A boast; boasting.
13. (obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
14. (obsolete) Breach of chastity.
15. (obsolete) One who excels; the best.
16. (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
17. (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
18. (slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
19. (slang, dated, UK) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
20. (vulgar, slang) Vagina.
21. A narrow opening.
22. A sharp, resounding blow.
23. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
24. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
25. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.

verb

1. (archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
2. (colloquial) To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent).
3. (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
4. (intransitive) To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
5. (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
6. (intransitive) To form cracks.
7. (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
8. (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
9. (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
10. (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
11. (obsolete) To brag; to boast.
12. (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
13. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
14. (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
15. (transitive) To open slightly.
16. (transitive) To overcome a security system or component.
17. (transitive) To tell (a joke).
18. (transitive, chemistry) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
19. (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
20. (transitive, figurative) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
21. (transitive, figurative) To solve a difficult problem.
22. (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.

noun

1. (Scotland) Alternative form of crake
2. (Scotland, Ireland) Misspelling of craic.

noun

1. (obsolete) A crack; a boast.
2. Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.

verb

1. (obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
2. To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.

adj

1. (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
2. (slang) Strange, weird, odd.
3. Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
4. Sick; unwell.

noun

1. (US, slang) Synonym of methamphetamine.
2. (archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
3. (archaic, baseball, slang, 1800s) A baseball fan.
4. (informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
5. (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
6. (informal, Britain, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.
7. (obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
8. (rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
9. A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
10. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
11. Clipping of crankshaft.
12. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
13. a fit of temper or passion.

verb

1. (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
2. (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
3. (intransitive) To turn a crank.
4. (intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
5. (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
6. (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
7. (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.

noun

1. The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.
2. (intransitive, figurative) To suffer from strain or old age.
3. (transitive) To produce a creaking sound with.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
2. (Britain) A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
3. Any turn or winding.

noun

1. (Appalachia) Alternative form of creek
2. A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected.
3. A small jackscrew.
4. The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.

verb

1. To cause to develop a crick; to create a crick in.
2. To develop a crick (cramp, spasm).
3. To twist, bend, or contort, especially in a way that produces strain.

noun

1. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
2. The call of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)
3. The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make a croak.
2. (intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its sound.
3. (slang) To die.
4. (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
5. (transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.
6. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

noun

1. (UK) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
2. (UK) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
3. (medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
4. (slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
5. A low stool.
6. A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
7. A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
8. Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
9. The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.

verb

1. (horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
2. (intransitive) To give off crock or smut.
3. (textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
4. (transitive, now dialectal) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
5. To break something or injure someone.

adj

1. (Australia, colloquial, obsolete) Illegal; dishonest.
2. (Australia, colloquial, obsolete) No good; bad.
3. (Australia, colloquial, obsolete) Of a horse, broken down, not useful as a work horse due to illness or infirmity.
4. (Australia, colloquial, obsolete) Unwell, sick.

noun

1. (Isle of Man) A hill or barrow.
2. The honking sound of a goose.

verb

1. To honk like a goose.

adj

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick.

noun

1. (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
2. (obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.
3. (obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
4. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
5. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
6. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
7. A bishop's standard staff of office.
8. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
9. A pothook.
10. A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
11. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become bent or hooked.
2. (transitive) To bend, or form into a hook.
3. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

noun

1. (architecture) A sturdy timber with a curve or angle used for primary framing of a timber house, usually used in pairs.
2. A vehicle that has features of both a car and a truck.

verb

1. (dialectal, transitive) To make lame.

adj

1. (US, slang) Crazy and intoxicated.

noun

1. A type of hip hop that originated in the southern United States.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To cry like a crane.

noun

1. (informal) Trash; worthless merchandise.

noun

1. Alternative form of eric (“fine paid as compensation for violent crimes”)

adj

1. Alternative form of freck

verb

1. (oil industry) To employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

adj

1. (Scotland) prompt; eager

verb

1. (transitive, rare, poetic) To checker; to diversify.

noun

1. (dialectal) A frog.
2. A dress, a piece of clothing, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body.
3. A sailor's jersey.
4. An outer garment worn by priests and other clericals; a habit.
5. An undress regimental coat.

verb

1. (US military, transitive) To grant to an officer the title and uniform of a rank he will soon be promoted to.
2. (transitive) To clothe (somebody) in a frock.
3. (transitive) To make (somebody) a cleric.

noun

1. A head of grain.

Proper noun

1. A city on the Kerch Peninsula of eastern Crimea, on the shore of Kerch Strait; an important industrial, transport and tourist centre of Ukraine.

adj

1. (slang, Australia) Uncultivated; boorish.

noun

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Interest on money; usury; increase.
2. (slang, Australia) A boorish or uncultivated Australian.

verb

1. (transitive, Now chiefly dialectal) To increase (in price); add to.

noun

1. (UK, Australia, US, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, slang, derogatory) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
2. (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
3. (obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
4. (obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
5. (obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
6. (obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
7. (slang, vulgar) The penis.
8. A feeling of remorse.
9. A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
10. A small pointed object.
11. An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
12. The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
13. The footprint of a hare.

verb

1. (farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
2. (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
3. (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
5. (intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
6. (nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
7. (obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
8. (obsolete, usually as prick up) to dress or adorn; to prink.
9. (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
10. (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
11. (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
12. (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
13. (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
14. (transitive, hunting) To shoot without killing.
15. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
16. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
17. To aim at a point or mark.
18. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.

noun

1. (metonymically) publication, distribution (of a magazine)
2. plural of rack

verb

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

verb

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

Proper noun

1. name, more often spelled Rickie or Ricky.
2. name and a nickname of modern usage.

noun

1. plural of rick

verb

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

Proper noun

1. A diminutive of the male given name Richard.

noun

1. (vulgar, slang) Testicles.
2. plural of rock

verb

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

adj

1. (Of an animal or plant) Having a habitat around or on rocks.
2. (figuratively, archaic) Not easily affected or impressed; stony; hard; obdurate; unfeeling.
3. (originally US) Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock).
4. Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
5. Easily rocked; unstable.
6. Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress.
7. In the style of rock music.
8. Like a rock; rigid, solid.

noun

1. plural of ruck

verb

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

noun

1. (automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
2. (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.
3. (cricket) The pitch.
4. (fashion, colloquial) Clipping of trackshoe.
5. (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.
6. (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
7. (slang) The street, as a prostitute's place of work.
8. (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
9. A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
10. A mark left by something that has passed along.
11. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
12. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
13. A road or other similar beaten path.
14. A themed set of talks within a conference.
15. A tract or area, such as of land.
16. Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
17. Physical course; way.
18. Sound stored on a record.
19. The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
20. The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
21. The physical track on a record.

verb

1. (computing, transitive or intransitive) To create music using tracker software.
2. (intransitive) To exhibit good cognitive function.
3. (intransitive, chiefly of a storm) To move.
4. (intransitive, colloquial) To make sense; to be consistent with known information
5. (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).
6. (transitive or intransitive, of a camera) To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
7. (transitive) To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.
8. (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
9. (transitive) To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.
10. (transitive) To match the movement or change of a person or object.
11. (transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object.
12. (transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
13. (transitive) To tow.
14. (transitive) To traverse; to move across.

adj

1. (chiefly US, slang) Stylish or cool.
2. Able to perform tricks.
3. Defective or unreliable.
4. Involving trickery or deception.

noun

1. (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
2. (dated) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait.
3. (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
4. (slang) A customer or client of a prostitute.
5. (slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
6. (slang, vulgar) A term of abuse.
7. A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
8. A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
9. A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
10. A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
11. An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
12. An entertaining difficult physical action.
13. Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
14. Something designed to fool or swindle.

verb

1. (heraldry) To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words).
2. (transitive) To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.
3. To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out.

noun

1. (UK, rail transport) A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods
2. (US, often attributive) Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
3. (US, rail transport) Abbreviation of railroad truck or wheel truck; a pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track.
4. (countable, uncountable, US, Australia) A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods.
5. (historical) The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].
6. (nautical) On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
7. (obsolete, often in the plural) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.
8. (road transport, Singapore, Malaysia) A lorry with a closed or covered carriage.
9. (theater) A platform with wheels or casters.
10. (usually with negative) Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
11. A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
12. Any smaller wagon/cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.
13. Dirt or other messiness.
14. The ball on top of a flagpole.
15. The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.

verb

1. (intransitive) To drive a truck.
2. (intransitive) To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
3. (intransitive) To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
4. (intransitive, US, Canada, slang) To persist, to endure.
5. (intransitive, US, slang) To travel, to proceed.
6. (intransitive, film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
7. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To deceive; cheat; defraud.
8. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
9. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
10. (transitive) To convey by truck.
11. (transitive) To trade, exchange; barter.
12. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
13. (transitive, slang) To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
14. (transitive, slang) To run over or through a tackler in American football.

noun

1. (archaic) Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore, or the right to claim such items.
2. (archaic, dialectal or literary) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
3. (archaic, except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.
4. A high flying cloud; a rack.
5. Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
6. The remains; a wreck.
7. Weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond.

verb

1. (UK dialectal, transitive) To execute vengeance; avenge.
2. (UK dialectal, transitive) To worry; tease; torment.
3. (transitive, usually passive) To wreck, especially a ship.
4. Alternative form of rack (“to cause to suffer pain, etc.”)

noun

1. (law, not countable) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
2. (ornithology) A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.
3. (specifically, nautical) A shipwreck: an event in which a ship is heavily damaged or destroyed.
4. An event in which something is damaged through collision.
5. Something or someone that has been ruined.
6. The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be involved in a wreck; to be damaged or destroyed.
2. (transitive) To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
3. (transitive) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
4. (transitive) To ruin or dilapidate.
5. (transitive, Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.

noun

1. A painful muscular spasm in the neck or back

verb

1. (dialect) To twist; turn
2. (dialect) To wrench; strain