A malevolent shapeshifting spirit, most often in the form of a horse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland.
An Australian breed of sheepdog.
kipfel
kipfel
noun
A type of crescent-shaped biscuit or bread roll.
klippe
linkup
linkup
noun
(climbing) enchainment
A connection.
The act of connecting.
lipkin
lipski
pelick
pelick
noun
The American coot (genus Fulica).
pelike
pelike
noun
A ceramic container of Ancient Greece, similar to an amphora.
pelkie
pickel
pickle
pickle
noun
(Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
(Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
(baseball) A rundown.
(endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
(informal) A difficult situation; peril.
(metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
(often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
(slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
(uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
The brine used for preserving food.
verb
(Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To eat sparingly.
(Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To pilfer.
(historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
(programming, in Python) To serialize.
(transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
(transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
pinkly
pinkly
adv
In a pink manner; with pink colour.
plinks
plinks
noun
plural of plink
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plink
pliske
plisky
plisky
noun
(obsolete, Scotland) practical joke
pokily
pokily
adv
In a poky way.
pytlik
uplick
uplink
uplink
noun
(by analogy, less formally) The communication path from a mobile device to a base station, a consumer to the network backbone, a client device to a server etc.
Data transmission from a data station to the headend.
The portion of a communications link used for the transmission of signals from an Earth terminal to a satellite or to an airborne platform. An uplink is the converse of a downlink. An uplink or downlink is distinguished from reverse link or forward link.