Synonyms of the word

shaft

• n. (obsolete) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
• n. The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
• n. (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
• n. Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed…
• n. A beam or ray of light.
• n. The main axis of a feather.
• n. (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
• n. A long, narrow passage sunk into the earth, either natural or for artificial.
• n. A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
• n. A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
• n. (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pediment.
• n. The main cylindrical part of the penis.
• n. The chamber of a blast furnace.
• v. (transitive, slang) To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
• v. (transitive) To equip with a shaft.
• v. (transitive, slang) To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.

arm

• n. The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
• n. (anatomy) The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
• n. A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
• n. A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object,…
• n. (geography) A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
• n. A branch of an organization.
• n. (figuratively) Power; might; strength; support.
• n. (baseball, slang) A pitcher.
• n. (genetics) One of the two parts of a chromosome.
• n. A group of patients in a medical trial.
• v. To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
• v. To supply with arms or limbs.
• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Poor; lacking in riches or wealth.
• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To be pitied; pitiful; wretched.
• n. (usually used in the plural) A weapon.
• n. (in the plural) heraldic bearings or insignia.
• v. To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
• v. To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.
• v. To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
• v. (figuratively) To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
• v. To fit (a magnet) with an armature.

barb

• n. The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted…
• n. (figuratively) A hurtful or disparaging remark.
• n. A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
• n. Armor for a horse, corrupted from bard.
• n. (ornithology) One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
• n. (zoology) Several species of freshwater fish of the cyprinid family.
• n. (zoology) A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States;…
• n. (botany) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
• n. (zoology) A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
• n. (obsolete) A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
• n. Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands…
• n. (obsolete) A bit for a horse.
• n. A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their…
• v. To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear,…
• v. To cover a horse in armor, corrupted from bard.
• v. (obsolete) To shave or dress the beard of.
• v. (obsolete) To clip; to mow.
• n. The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
• n. A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.

beam

• n. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
• n. One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame…
• n. (nautical) The maximum width of a vessel.
• n. The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
• n. The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
• n. (literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.
• n. (textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and…
• n. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
• n. The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached…
• n. In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which…
• n. A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
• n. (figuratively) A ray; a gleam.
• n. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
• n. (music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric…
• n. (railway) An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or supply with beams.
• v. (transitive) give the appearance of beams to.
• v. (transitive, science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
• v. (transitive, currying) To stretch something (for example an animal hide) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, weaving) To put (something) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

calamus

• n. The sweet flag, Acorus calamus.
• n. A quill.

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

chicane

• n. (road transport, motor racing) A temporary barrier, or serpentine curve, on a vehicular path, especially…
• n. (bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honours.
• n. Chicanery.
• v. (intransitive) To use chicanery, tricks or subterfuge.
• v. (transitive) To deceive.

chouse

• v. (transitive) To cheat, to trick.
• n. One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.
• n. A trick; a sham.
• n. A swindler.
• v. (US, of cattle) To handle roughly, as by chasing or scaring.
• v. (US, regional) To handle, to take care of.
• v. (transitive, US, regional) To cause undesirable activity in livestock, such as running.

cock

• n. A male bird, especially.
• n. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
• n. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
• n. The notch of an arrow or crossbow.
• n. (slang, vulgar) The penis.
• n. (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
• n. The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
• n. (Britain, New Zealand, pejorative, slang) A stupid person.
• n. (informal, Britain, Tasmania) Term of address.
• n. A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
• n. (informal) shuttlecock.
• n. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
• n. (dated, humorous) A chief man; a leader or master.
• n. The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
• n. The style or gnomon of a sundial.
• n. The indicator of a balance.
• n. The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to…
• v. (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
• v. (transitive) To erect; to turn up.
• v. (Britain, transitive, slang) To copulate with.
• v. (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision…
• v. (intransitive, dated) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (of children).
• interj. (slang) Expression of annoyance.
• n. (dated in the Southern US, still sometimes found in African American Vernacular) Vulva, vagina.
• n. A small conical pile of hay.
• v. (transitive) To form into piles.
• n. Short for cock-boat, a type of small boat.
• p.n. (obsolete) A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.

comment

• n. A spoken remark.
• n. (programming) A remark in source code which does not affect the behavior of the program.
• v. (transitive) To remark.
• v. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.
• v. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).
• v. (transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

diaphysis

• n. (anatomy) The central shaft of any long bone.

dick

• n. (countable, obsolete) A male person.
• n. (countable and uncountable, vulgar, slang) The penis.
• n. (countable, Britain, US, vulgar, slang, pejorative) A highly contemptible person.
• n. (uncountable, US, Canada, vulgar, slang) Absolutely nothing.
• v. (slang, vulgar) To mistreat or take advantage of somebody (with around).
• v. (slang, vulgar) To waste time, to goof off (with around).
• v. (slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
• n. (uncommon, US, slang) A detective.
• n. (obsolete) A declaration.
• num. (West Cumbrian, Borrowdale, dialectal) ten in Cumbrian sheep counting.

dig

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole…
• v. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
• v. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
• v. (figuratively) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
• v. To thrust; to poke.
• v. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball.
• n. An archeological investigation.
• n. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
• n. A thrust; a poke.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
• n. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
• v. (slang) To understand or show interest in.
• v. (slang) To appreciate, or like.

equip

• v. (transitive) To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever…
• v. (transitive) To dress up; to array; accouter.
• v. (transitive) To prepare (someone) with a skill.

fit

• adj. Suitable, proper.
• adj. Adapted to a purpose or environment.
• adj. In good shape; physically well.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Good looking, fanciable, attractive, beautiful.
• adj. Prepared; ready.
• v. (transitive) To be suitable for.
• v. (transitive) To conform to in size and shape.
• v. (intransitive) To be of the right size and shape.
• v. (transitive, with to) To make conform in size and shape.
• v. (transitive) To be in agreement with.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
• v. (transitive) To equip or supply.
• v. (transitive) To make ready.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To be seemly.
• v. To be proper or becoming.
• v. (intransitive) To be in harmony.
• n. The degree to which something fits.
• n. Conformity of elements one to another.
• n. The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
• n. (advertising) how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
• n. (statistics) goodness of fit.
• n. (archaic) A section of a poem or ballad.
• n. A seizure or convulsion.
• n. (medicine) A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
• n. A sudden outburst of emotion.
• n. A sudden burst (of an activity).
• v. (intransitive, medicine) To suffer a fit.

gibe

• n. A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer or taunt.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a jibe (2, 3).
• v. (intransitive) To agree.
• v. (transitive) To cause to execute a gibe (2, 3).
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to mock.

irradiation

• n. An act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated.
• n. (obsolete) illumination; irradiance; brilliance.
• n. (obsolete) figurative: mental light or illumination.
• n. (obsolete) the apparent enlargement of a bright object seen upon a dark ground, due to the fact that the…
• n. (uncountable) a process of sterilisation whereby radiation is passed through a bag containing food, utensils,…

jibe

• n. (nautical) A maneuver in which the stern of a sailing boat or ship crosses the wind, typically resulting…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To perform a jibe.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To cause to execute a jibe.
• v. (intransitive) To agree.
• n. A facetious or insulting remark, a jeer or taunt.
• v. (intransitive) To make a mocking remark or remarks, jeer.
• v. (transitive) To mock, taunt.
• v. (transitive) To say in a mocking or taunting manner.

jockey

• n. One who rides racehorses competitively.
• n. That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire.
• n. An operator of some machinery or apparatus.
• n. (dated) A dealer in horses; a horse trader.
• n. (dated) A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
• n. (Britain, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
• n. (Ireland, crime, slang) A rapist.
• v. To ride (a horse) in a race.
• v. To maneuver (something) by skill for one's advantage.
• v. To cheat or trick.

lance

• n. A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
• n. A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the…
• n. (fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
• n. (military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
• n. (military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
• n. (founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
• n. (pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines…
• n. (medicine) A lancet.
• v. To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
• v. To open with a lancet; to pierce.
• v. To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.

light

• n. (physics, uncountable) Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation…
• n. A source of illumination.
• n. Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
• n. (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
• n. A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
• n. (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those…
• n. A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
• n. A flame or something used to create fire.
• n. A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
• n. A window, or space for a window in architecture.
• n. The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
• n. (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
• n. Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
• n. The power of perception by vision.
• n. The brightness of the eye or eyes.
• n. A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler…
• v. (transitive) To start (a fire).
• v. (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning; to kindle.
• v. (transitive) To illuminate.
• v. (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
• v. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
• adj. Having light.
• adj. Pale in colour.
• adj. (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
• adj. Of low weight; not heavy.
• adj. Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
• adj. Gentle; having little force or momentum.
• adj. Easy to endure or perform.
• adj. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
• adj. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
• adj. (rail transport, of a locomotive, usually with "run") travelling with no carriages, wagons attached.
• adj. (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
• adj. Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
• adj. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
• adj. (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
• adj. Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
• adj. Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
• adj. Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
• adj. Easily interrupted by stimulation.
• adv. Carrying little.
• n. (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
• v. (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter.
• v. To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
• v. To find by chance.
• v. To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice.
• v. (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

member

• n. One who officially belongs to a group.
• n. A part of a whole.
• n. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
• n. The penis.
• n. (logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
• n. (set theory) An element of a set.
• n. (object-oriented programming) A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a…
• n. (Australia, law) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
• n. A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
• n. (mathematics) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
• n. (computing) A file stored within an archive file.
• v. (obsolete outside dialects) To remember.
• v. (obsolete) To cause to remember; to mention.

outfit

• n. A set of clothing (with accessories).
• n. Gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose.
• n. Any cohesive group of people; a unit; such as a military company.
• n. (informal) A business or firm.
• n. (sports) A sports team.
• n. (statistics) An outlier-sensitive fit.
• v. (transitive) To provide with, usually for a specific purpose.

passage

• n. A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
• n. Part of a path or journey.
• n. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
• n. (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
• n. A passageway or corridor.
• n. (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
• n. (euphemistic) The vagina.
• n. The act of passing.
• v. (medicine) To pass a pathogen through a host or medium.
• v. (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
• n. (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic,…
• v. (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement.

passageway

• n. A covered walkway, between rooms or buildings.
• n. Any way for passing in, out or through something.

pecker

• n. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly.
• n. (Britain colloquial, by extension from ‘beak’) A nose.
• n. (Britain colloquial, by extension, from the expression ‘keep one's pecker up’) Spirits, nerve, courage.
• n. (chiefly plural, pejorative slang) Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash").
• n. (chiefly plural, pejorative slang) Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").
• n. (US) Clipping of pecker head ("an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords…

penis

• n. (anatomy) The male reproductive organ used for sexual intercourse that in the human male and some other…

peter

• n. (slang) The penis.
• v. (most often used in the phrase peter out) To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing.

phallus

• n. A penis, especially when erect.
• n. A representation of an erect penis symbolising fertility or potency.

prick

• n. A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
• n. An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
• n. (obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
• n. (obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
• n. A small pointed object.
• n. The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
• n. (slang, vulgar) The penis.
• n. (slang, pejorative) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
• n. (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
• n. The footprint of a hare.
• n. (obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
• n. (obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
• v. (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
• v. (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
• v. (obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
• v. (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to…
• v. (nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
• v. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
• v. To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an…
• v. (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular…
• v. (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
• v. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
• v. (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
• v. (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
• v. To aim at a point or mark.
• v. (obsolete) Usually as prick up: to dress; to prink.

putz

• n. (slang) Fool, idiot.
• n. (slang) Jerk.
• n. (slang) Penis.
• v. (slang) Waste time.
• n. A decoration or ornament in the Nativity tradition, usually placed under a Christmas tree.

quill

• n. The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
• n. A pen made from a feather.
• n. (figuratively) Any pen.
• n. A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine…
• n. A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
• n. The pen of a squid.
• n. (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
• n. (music) The tube of a musical instrument.
• n. Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or…
• v. To pierce or be pierced with quills.
• v. (figuratively) To write.
• v. To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
• v. To decorate with quillwork.
• v. (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving…

ray

• n. A beam of light or radiation.
• n. (zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
• n. (zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
• n. (botany) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an…
• n. (obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded…
• n. (mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
• n. (colloquial) A tiny amount.
• v. (transitive) To emit something as if in rays.
• v. (intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.
• n. A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.
• v. (obsolete) To arrange.
• v. (now rare) To dress, array (someone).
• v. (obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile.
• n. The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
• n. (obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
• n. (music) Alternative form of re.

remark

• n. Act of pointing out or attentively noticing; notice or observation.
• n. The expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; a mention of something worth attention…
• n. A casual observation, comment, or statement.
• n. (engraving) Alternative form of remarque.
• v. (intransitive) To make a remark or remarks; to comment.
• v. (transitive) To mark in a notable manner; to distinguish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to…
• v. (transitive) To take notice of, or to observe, mentally.
• v. (transitive) To express in words or writing, as observed or noticed; to state; to say; -- often with a…
• n. Alternative spelling of re-mark.
• v. Alternative spelling of re-mark.

rib

• n. Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from…
• n. A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.
• n. A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.
• n. (nautical) Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to…
• n. Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.
• n. (architecture) A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially…
• n. (knitting) A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.
• n. (botany) The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.
• n. A teasing joke.
• n. (Ireland, colloquial) A single strand of hair.
• n. A stalk of celery.
• n. (archaic, literary, humorous) A wife or woman.
• v. To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
• v. To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
• v. To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
• v. (transitive) To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).

rod

• n. A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
• n. (fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
• n. A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer…
• n. An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment,…
• n. A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along…
• n. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, ¼ chain, 5½ yards, 16½ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters…
• n. An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used…
• n. (archaic) A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre.
• n. A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or…
• n. (anatomy) Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
• n. (biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
• n. (chemistry) A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 1/8 to 1/4 inch in…
• n. (slang) A pistol; a gun.
• n. (slang, vulgar) A penis.
• n. (slang) A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with…
• n. (ufology) A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen…
• n. (mathematics) A Cuisenaire rod.
• n. (rail transport) A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.
• v. (construction) To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
• v. (slang, vulgar, transitive) To penetrate sexually.

scape

• n. (botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root.
• n. the basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
• n. the basal part of the ovipositor of an insect, more specifically known as the oviscape.
• n. (architecture) the shaft of a column.
• n. (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
• v. (archaic) to escape.
• n. (archaic) escape.
• n. (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
• n. (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
• n. (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.

screw

• n. A device that has a helical function.
• n. (derogatory) A prison guard.
• n. (derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or…
• n. (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
• n. (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
• n. (slang) Salary, wages.
• n. (billiards) Backspin.
• n. (slang) A small packet of tobacco.
• n. (dated) An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
• n. (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated…
• n. An amphipod crustacean.
• n. (dated, slang) A prison guard.
• v. (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation. Sometimes used…
• v. (transitive) To apply pressure on; to put the screws on.
• v. To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.
• v. (transitive) To contort.
• v. (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
• v. (billiard, snooker, pool) To screw back.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.

shell

• n. A hard external covering of an animal.
• n. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
• n. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
• n. The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
• n. The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
• n. The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
• n. A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon…
• n. The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
• n. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in,…
• n. A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that…
• n. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
• n. (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
• n. (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims…
• n. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
• n. (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
• n. (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
• n. (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper;…
• n. (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs…
• n. (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
• n. An emaciated person.
• n. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
• n. (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
• n. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
• n. (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
• v. To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
• v. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
• v. (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
• v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
• v. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
• v. (topology) To form a shelling.

shot

• adj. (colloquial) Worn out or broken.
• adj. (of material, especially silk) Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an…
• adj. Tired, weary.
• adj. Discharged, cleared, or rid of something.
• n. The result of launching a projectile or bullet.
• n. (sports) The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal.
• n. (athletics) The heavy iron ball used for the shot put.
• n. (uncountable) Small metal balls used as ammunition.
• n. (uncountable, military) Metal balls (or similar) used as ammunition; not necessarily small.
• n. (referring to one's skill at firing a gun) Someone who shoots (a gun) regularly.
• n. An opportunity or attempt.
• n. A remark or comment, especially one which is critical or insulting.
• n. (slang, sports, US) A punch or other physical blow.
• n. A measure of alcohol, usually spirits, as taken either from a shot-glass or directly from the bottle,…
• n. A single serving of espresso.
• n. (photography, film) A single unbroken sequence of photographic film exposures, or the digital equivalent;…
• n. A vaccination or injection.
• n. (US, Canada, baseball, informal) A home run that scores one, two, or three runs (a four run home run is…
• n. (US federal prison system) Written documentation of a behavior infraction.
• n. (fisheries) A cast of one or more nets.
• n. (fisheries) A place or spot for setting nets.
• n. (fisheries) A single draft or catch of fish made.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of shoot.
• v. (transitive) To load (a gun) with shot.
• n. A charge to be paid, a scot or shout.
• interj. (colloquial, South Africa) Thank you.

slam

• v. (transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by…
• v. (transitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
• v. (basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
• v. (intransitive, bridge) To make a slam bid.
• v. (transitive, card games) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
• v. (transitive) to change providers (e.g. of domain registration or telephone carrier) for a customer without…
• v. to drink off, to drink quickly.
• v. to compete in a poetry slam.
• v. (transitive, drugs, slang) to inject intravenously; shoot up.
• n. (countable) A sudden impact or blow.
• n. (countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
• n. (countable, basketball) A slam dunk.
• n. (countable, colloquial, US) An insult.
• n. (uncountable) The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
• n. A poetry slam.
• n. (Britain, dialect) The refuse of alum works.
• n. (obsolete) A type of card game, also called ruff and honours.
• n. (card games) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
• n. (countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
• v. (transitive, card games) To defeat by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.

spear

• n. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting…
• n. (now chiefly historical) A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
• n. A sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
• n. (ice hockey) an illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
• n. (wrestling) a running tackle on an opponent performed in professional wrestling.
• n. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
• n. The feather of a horse.
• n. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
• n. A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
• v. To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object. To make a thrusting motion that catches…
• v. (intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.

tool

• n. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
• n. Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
• n. Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
• n. (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
• n. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
• n. (slang) Penis.
• n. (by extension, slang, pejorative) An obnoxious or uptight person.
• v. (transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
• v. (transitive) To equip with tools.
• v. (transitive) To work very hard.
• v. (transitive, slang) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to…
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
• v. (transitive, Britain, slang, dated) To drive (a coach, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, slang) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

trounce

• v. (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily.
• v. (transitive) to punish.
• v. (transitive) to beat severely; thrash.

upright

• adj. Vertical; erect.
• adj. Greater in height than breadth.
• adj. (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
• adj. (of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
• adv. in or into an upright position.
• n. Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.
• n. A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic…
• n. (informal) An upright piano.
• n. Short for upright vacuum cleaner.
• v. (transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).

vanquish

• v. To defeat, to overcome.

vertical

• adj. Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular…
• adj. In a two dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis oriented normal (perpendicular,…
• adj. (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
• adj. (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
• n. A vertex or zenith.
• n. A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
• n. An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
• n. A vertical component of a structure.
• n. (marketing) A vertical market.

weapon

• n. An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.
• n. An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
• n. (informal, humorous) A tool of any kind.