Synonyms of the word peck


PECKBATCH - BEAK - BUSS - COMPLAIN - DEAL - EAT - FLOCK - HATFUL - HEAP - KICK - KISS - KVETCH - LOT - MASS - MESS - MICKLE - MINT - MUCKLE - NAG - OSCULATE - PICK - PILE - PLAIN - PLENTY - POT - QUETCH - RAFT - SIGHT - SLEW - SMACK - SPATE - STACK - STRIKE - WAD

peck

  • v. To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.
  • v. (transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
  • v. To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick…
  • v. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
  • v. To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
  • v. To type by searching for each key individually.
  • v. (rare) To type in general.
  • v. To kiss briefly.
  • n. An act of pecking.
  • n. A small kiss.
  • n. One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
  • n. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
  • v. (regional) To throw.
  • v. To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of…
  • n. Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
  • n. Misspelling of pec.

batch

  • n. A bank; a sandbank.
  • n. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
  • n. (obsolete) The process of baking.
  • n. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
  • n. A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
  • n. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
  • n. (computing) A set of data to be processed with one execution of a program.
  • n. (Britain, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
  • n. (Philippines) A graduating class.
  • v. To aggregate things together into a batch.
  • v. (computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
  • adj. Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.
  • v. (informal) To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.

beak

  • n. Anatomical uses.
  • n. Figurative uses.
  • n. Colloquial uses.
  • v. (transitive) Strike with the beak.
  • v. (transitive) Seize with the beak.

buss

  • n. (archaic) A kiss.
  • n. A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing.
  • n. Archaic form of bus (“passenger vehicle”).
  • v. (transitive) To kiss (either literally or figuratively).
  • v. (intransitive) To kiss.

complain

  • v. (intransitive) To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
  • v. To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

deal

  • n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
  • n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
  • v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
  • v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
  • v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
  • v. (baseball) To pitch.
  • v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
  • v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
  • v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
  • v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
  • v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
  • n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
  • n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
  • n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
  • n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
  • n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
  • n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
  • n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
  • n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
  • n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
  • n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
  • adj. Made of deal.

eat

  • v. To ingest; to be ingested.
  • v. To use up.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
  • v. (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.
  • v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on someone.
  • n. (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

flock

  • n. A large number of birds, especially those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
  • n. A large number of animals, especially sheep or goats kept together.
  • n. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
  • n. A large number of people.
  • v. (intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
  • v. To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
  • n. Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
  • n. A lock of wool or hair.
  • n. Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating…
  • v. (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles.

hatful

  • n. The amount that will fit into a hat.
  • n. (soccer, Britain) A large number (usually talking about goalscoring chances).

heap

  • n. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  • n. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
  • n. A great number or large quantity of things.
  • n. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
  • n. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
  • n. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
  • n. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount.
  • v. (transitive) To pile in a heap.
  • v. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  • v. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

kick

  • v. (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
  • v. (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
  • v. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
  • v. (Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
  • v. (slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
  • v. To move or push suddenly and violently.
  • v. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
  • v. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
  • v. (cycling, intransitive) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from…
  • n. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
  • n. The action of swinging a foot or leg.
  • n. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
  • n. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
  • n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it…
  • n. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
  • n. (uncountable and countable) piquancy.
  • n. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
  • n. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
  • n. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
  • n. a recoil of a gun.
  • n. (informal) pocket.
  • n. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
  • v. To die.

kiss

  • v. (transitive) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to express love or affection or…
  • v. (transitive) To touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.
  • v. (intransitive) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or…
  • v. (transitive) To mark a cross (X) after one's name on a card, etc.
  • n. A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
  • n. An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message.
  • n. A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See Hershey's Kisses.

kvetch

  • v. To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly.
  • n. Person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything.
  • n. An instance of kvetching; a complaint or whine.

lot

  • n. A large quantity or number; a great deal.
  • n. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
  • n. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
  • n. (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
  • n. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
  • n. That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
  • n. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without…
  • n. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
  • n. A prize in a lottery.
  • n. Allotment; lottery.
  • n. (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.
  • n. An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32…
  • v. (transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
  • v. (US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon).

mass

  • n. (physical) Matter, material.
  • n. A large quantity; a sum.
  • n. (quantity) Large in number.
  • v. (transitive) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses;…
  • v. (intransitive) To have a certain mass.
  • adj. Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
  • adj. Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
  • n. (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
  • n. (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
  • n. (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • n. A musical setting of parts of the mass.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To celebrate mass.

mess

  • n. (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
  • n. (archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one…
  • n. A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel…
  • n. A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
  • n. (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
  • v. (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
  • v. (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
  • v. (intransitive) To eat (with others).
  • v. (transitive) To supply with a mess.
  • n. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding;…
  • n. (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
  • n. (euphemistic) Excrement.
  • v. (transitive) To make a mess of.
  • v. (transitive) To throw into confusion.
  • v. (intransitive) To interfere.

mickle

  • n. (chiefly Scotland) A great amount.
  • n. (Scotland) A small amount.
  • n. (obsolete) Important or great people as a class.
  • n. (obsolete) Greatness, largeness, stature.
  • pron. (now chiefly Scotland) A large amount or great extent.
  • adv. (now chiefly Scotland) To a great extent.
  • adv. (obsolete) Often, frequently.

mint

  • v. (intransitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt; take aim.
  • v. (transitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try…
  • v. (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To hint; suggest; insinuate.
  • n. (provincial, Northern England, Scotland) Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor.
  • n. A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
  • n. (informal) A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.
  • n. (figuratively) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
  • v. (transitive) To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
  • v. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
  • adj. (of condition) as new.
  • adj. (numismatics) In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
  • adj. (philately) Unused with original gum; as issued originally.
  • adj. (Britain, slang) Very good.
  • n. Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
  • n. The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
  • n. Any plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae.
  • n. A green colour, like that of mint.
  • n. A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.
  • adj. Of a green colour, like that of the mint plant.

muckle

  • n. (chiefly Scotland) A great amount.
  • adj. (archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Large, massive.
  • adj. (archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Much.
  • v. (US, dialectal) To latch onto something with the mouth.
  • v. (rare) To talk big; to exaggerate.

nag

  • n. A small horse; a pony.
  • n. An old useless horse.
  • n. (obsolete, derogatory) A paramour.
  • v. To continuously remind or complain to someone in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary…
  • v. To act inappropriately in the eyes of peers, to backstab, to verbally abuse.
  • v. To bother with persistent memories.
  • v. Other sorts of persistent annoyance, e.g.
  • n. One who nags.

osculate

  • v. (transitive) To kiss someone or something.
  • v. (mathematics) To touch so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact.
  • v. (intransitive) To make contact.
  • v. (Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.

pick

  • n. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
  • n. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
  • n. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
  • n. A choice; ability to choose.
  • n. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
  • n. (basketball) A screen.
  • n. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
  • n. (American football) An interception.
  • n. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
  • n. (baseball) A pickoff.
  • n. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
  • n. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
  • n. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
  • n. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face,…
  • n. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
  • n. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute);…
  • v. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
  • v. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached;…
  • v. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
  • v. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
  • v. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
  • v. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
  • v. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand…
  • v. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
  • v. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
  • v. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
  • v. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
  • v. To steal; to pilfer.
  • v. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
  • v. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

pile

  • n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
  • n. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind…
  • n. A mass formed in layers.
  • n. A funeral pile; a pyre.
  • n. A large building, or mass of buildings.
  • n. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering…
  • n. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks…
  • n. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
  • n. (figuratively) A list or league.
  • v. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to…
  • v. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
  • v. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
  • v. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
  • v. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright,…
  • n. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
  • n. The head of an arrow or spear.
  • n. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support…
  • n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise,…
  • v. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
  • n. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
  • n. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now…
  • n. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
  • n. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

plain

  • adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
  • adj. Simple.
  • adj. Obvious.
  • adj. Open.
  • adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
  • adv. (colloquial) Simply.
  • n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
  • v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
  • n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
  • n. A battlefield.
  • n. (obsolete) A plane.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

plenty

  • n. A more than adequate amount.
  • pron. More than enough.
  • adv. More than sufficiently.
  • adv. (colloquial) Used as an intensifier, very.
  • adj. (obsolete) plentiful.

pot

  • n. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
  • n. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly.
  • n. (slang) Ruin or deterioration.
  • n. (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
  • n. (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail…
  • n. (gambling) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively)…
  • n. (Britain, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
  • n. (sports) The act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket in cue sports such as billiards.
  • n. (slang) Clipping of potbelly: a pot-shaped belly, a paunch.
  • n. (slang) Clipping of potshot: a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot.
  • n. (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
  • n. (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
  • v. To put (something) into a pot.
  • v. To preserve by bottling or canning.
  • v. (cue sports) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
  • v. (cue sports) To be capable of being potted.
  • v. (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
  • v. (intransitive, dated) To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
  • v. (Britain) To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
  • v. (obsolete, dialect, Britain) To tipple; to drink.
  • v. (transitive) To drain.
  • v. (transitive, Britain) To seat a person, usually a young child, onto a potty or toilet, typically during…
  • v. (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
  • n. (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to…
  • n. (role-playing games) Clipping of potion.

quetch

  • v. Alternative form of quitch.

raft

  • n. A flat structure made of planks, barrels etc., that floats on water, and is used for transport, emergencies…
  • n. A flat-bottomed inflatable craft for floating or drifting on water.
  • n. A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals.
  • n. (US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
  • v. (transitive) to convey on a raft.
  • v. (transitive) to make into a raft.
  • v. (intransitive) to travel by raft.
  • n. A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of reave.

sight

  • n. (in the singular) The ability to see.
  • n. The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
  • n. Something seen.
  • n. Something worth seeing; a spectacle.
  • n. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
  • n. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
  • n. (now colloquial) a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
  • n. In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame…
  • n. (obsolete) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
  • n. Mental view; opinion; judgment.
  • v. (transitive) To register visually.
  • v. (transitive) To get sight of (something).
  • v. (transitive) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction…
  • v. (transitive) To take aim at.

slew

  • n. (US) A large amount.
  • n. The act, or process of slaying.
  • n. A device used for slaying.
  • n. A change of position.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
  • v. (transitive) To veer a vehicle.
  • v. (transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
  • v. (intransitive) To pivot.
  • v. (intransitive) To skid.
  • v. (transitive, rail transport) to move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
  • v. (transitive, Britain, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
  • v. simple past tense of slay.
  • n. A wet place; a river inlet.

smack

  • n. A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
  • n. A slight trace of something; a smattering.
  • n. (slang) Heroin.
  • v. (intransitive) To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
  • v. (intransitive) To have a particular taste; used with of.
  • n. A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and…
  • n. A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
  • n. A loud kiss.
  • n. A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
  • v. To slap someone, or to make a smacking sound.
  • v. (New Zealand) To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (US spank).
  • v. To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
  • v. To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
  • adv. As if with a smack or slap.

spate

  • n. A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
  • n. A sudden rush or increase.

stack

  • n. (heading) A pile.
  • n. A smokestack.
  • n. (heading) In digital computing.
  • n. (mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
  • n. (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
  • n. (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
  • n. (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
  • n. (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
  • n. (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
  • n. (heading) In architecture.
  • n. (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
  • n. (bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
  • v. (transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
  • v. (transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
  • v. (transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
  • v. (transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.

strike

  • v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
  • v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
  • v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
  • v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
  • v. To touch; to act by appulse.
  • v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
  • v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
  • v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
  • v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
  • v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
  • v. To make and ratify.
  • v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
  • v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
  • v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
  • v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
  • v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
  • v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
  • v. To balance (a ledger or account).
  • n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
  • n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
  • n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
  • n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
  • n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
  • n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
  • n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
  • n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
  • n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
  • n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
  • n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
  • n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
  • n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
  • n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
  • n. The discovery of a source of something.
  • n. A strike plate.

wad

  • n. An amorphous, compact mass.
  • n. A substantial pile (normally of money).
  • n. A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.
  • n. (slang) A sandwich.
  • n. (slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.
  • n. (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various…
  • v. To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
  • v. (Ulster) To wager.
  • v. To insert or force a wad into.
  • v. To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.

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