The hooked goad that is used in India to control elephants.
banks
banks
noun
plural of bank
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bank
dansk
hanks
hanks
noun
plural of hank
kains
kains
noun
plural of kain
kanas
kanas
noun
plural of kana
kanes
kansa
kansu
kaons
kaons
noun
plural of kaon
karns
karns
noun
plural of karn
khans
khans
noun
plural of khan
kinas
kinas
noun
plural of kina
kisan
klans
knaps
knaps
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of knap
knars
knars
noun
plural of knar
koans
koans
noun
plural of koan
krans
krans
noun
Alternative form of krantz
kusan
manks
manks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mank
narks
narks
noun
(colloquial) Nitrogen narcosis.
plural of nark
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nark
ranks
ranks
noun
plural of rank
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rank
sanka
sansk
shank
shank
adj
(slang) Bad.
noun
(architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
(golf) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
(metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
(ornithology, colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
(printing, dated) The body of a type; between the shoulder and the foot.
(shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
(slang) An improvised stabbing weapon.
A loop forming an eye to a button.
A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
Meat from that part of an animal.
The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
The main part or beginning of a period of time.
The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
verb
(archaic, Ulster) To travel on foot.
(intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
(shoemaking) To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
(slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
(slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
(transitive, chiefly tennis, soccer, gridiron football) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
(transitive, golf) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
(transitive, sewing) To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
skean
skean
noun
(historical) A double-edged, leaf-shaped, typically bronze dagger formerly used in Ireland and Scotland.
Obsolete form of skein.
slank
slank
verb
(rare) simple past tense and past participle of slink
snack
snack
noun
(obsolete) A share; a part or portion.
(slang) A very sexy and attractive person.
A light meal.
An item of food eaten between meals.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To bite.
(obsolete, transitive) To share.
(obsolete, transitive) To snatch.
To eat a light meal.
To eat between meals.
snake
snake
noun
(Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
(Ireland, UK) Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.
(MLE, MTE) An informer; a rat.
(cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.
(finance, historical) Short for snake in the tunnel.
(mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
(slang) Trouser snake; the penis.
A legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
A tool for unclogging plumbing.
A tool to aid cable pulling.
A treacherous person; a rat.
verb
(MLE) To inform; to rat.
(US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
(intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.
(nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
(transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
(transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
snaky
snaky
adj
(obsolete) Covered with serpents; having serpents.
(obsolete) sly; cunning; deceitful.
Resembling or relating to snakes; snakelike.
Windy; winding; twisty; sinuous, wavy.
snark
snark
noun
(literary) The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search.
(mathematics) A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.
(physics) A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.
Snide remarks or attitude.
verb
(obsolete) To snort.
To express oneself in a snarky fashion.
sneak
sneak
adj
In a stealthy or surreptitious manner.
In advance; before release to the general public.
noun
(American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
(US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
(obsolete, cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter
A cheat; a con artist.
An informer; a tell-tale.
One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
The act of sneaking
verb
(ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.
(intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
(intransitive, informal, with on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
(transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
(transitive, dated) To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
spank
spank
noun
A slapping sound, as produced by spanking.
An instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a smack, swat, or slap.
verb
(intransitive) To move rapidly.
(transitive) To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, gesture, or form of sexual interaction.