(athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
(baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
(engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
(field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
(figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
(graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
(mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.
The passenger compartment of a lift.
verb
(aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.
(figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
cagn
cagr
cagy
cagy
adj
Alternative form of cagey
cegb
cgct
chug
chug
noun
(derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Native American descent.
A dog that is a cross between a pug and a chihuahua.
A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine.
A homemade Cuban boat, built to carry emigrants to the USA, and often abandoned upon arrival.
A large gulp of drink.
verb
(intransitive) To make dull explosive sounds.
(intransitive) To move or travel whilst making such sounds.
(intransitive, by extension) To move or travel at a steady, although not especially fast, pace.
(transitive, UK slang, derogatory) To solicit charitable donations on the street, particularly in a persistent manner.
(transitive, slang) To drink a large amount (especially of beer) in a single action/without breathing; to chugalug. Usually chanted at the person who is drinking.
cigs
cigs
noun
plural of cig
clag
clag
noun
(motor racing slang) Bits of rubber which are shed from tires during a race and collect off the racing line, especially on the outside of corners (cf. marbles).
(railway slang) Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit.
A glue or paste made from starch.
Low cloud, fog or smog.
verb
(obsolete) To encumber
To stick, like boots in mud
cleg
cleg
noun
(Scotland, England dialect) A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.
(now dialectal) A light breeze.
clog
clog
noun
(UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
A blockage.
A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
verb
(intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
(law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
cmdg
cogs
cogs
noun
plural of cog
cong
cong
noun
A type of carved jade tube made in China starting in the Neolithic .
crag
crag
noun
(dialectal or obsolete) The neck or throat.
(geology) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs.