cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unpawnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpawnable
form: most unpawnable
Etymology: From un- + pawnable.
Senses: glosses: Not pawnable.
unpawned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pawned.
Senses: glosses: Not having been pawned.
unpawned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpawn
unpornographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pornographic.
Senses: glosses: Not pornographic.
royaler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of royal: more royal
hockeyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hockeyers
Etymology: Borrowed from French hockeyeur or Dutch hockeyer.
Senses: examples: text: Be glad that hockeyers seem to be still allowed Pj!
ref: 1996 October 6, Pluised by Own, “Bear Hunt Update”, in alt.cuddle (Usenet), retrieved 14 Jul 2022:
text: Feh! Try rushing your 400 pounds of brute meat on a REAL* hockey player... If he manage to not break his skull by falling on the ice, we'll see if he can survive the fully trained warrior that is a hockeyer having dropped the gloves ;P
ref: 1998 June 27, Alain Cislaghi, “WOMEN!!!! (just another rant)”, in alt.gothic (Usenet), retrieved 14 Jul 2022:
text: To me, nickname (Spring)boks is referring to any South African national team. The hockeyers are often referred to as Springboks, as well as the cricketers.
ref: 1999 December 6, Mees Roelofs, “Springbok Jersey”, in rec.sport.rugby.union (Usenet), retrieved 14 Jul 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: A hockey player.
Chassid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chassidim
form: Chassids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hasid.
copaiba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkəʊpaɪˈiːbə/
Forms: form: copaibas
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese copaíba, borrowed from Old Tupi kopa'yba, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kopaʔɨβ + Old Tupi -a.
Senses: glosses: Any of several South American trees of the genus Copaifera
glosses: An oleoresin, extracted from such trees, used in varnishes, ointments and as a perfume fixative.
Derived terms: copaene
dad dancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dad dancers
Senses: examples: text: I gather that he was a bit of a “dad dancer” – embarrassing on his feet, seeming old before his time. […] The moral of the story is to be aware of dad-dancing, or the display of any other behavioural oddities, when you first meet.
ref: 2009 April 16, “How bad dancing can ruin your love life”, in The Times, London:
glosses: Someone who practises, or is regarded as engaging in, dad dancing.
dad-dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dad dancing.
copaibas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copaiba
fire blight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire blights
form: fire-blight
form: fireblight
Senses: examples: text: Pear growers also often reported scab and fire blights as the most damaging diseases.
ref: 1949, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Information Bulletin, page xv:
text: This paper reports on the transformation of apple aimed on an improvement of resistance to fire blight. Fire blight is a serious disease, caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora, affecting apple, pear and other members of the Rosaceous family.
ref: 2003, Viola Hanke, Klaus Geider, Klaus Richter, “Transgenic Apple Plants Expressing EPS-depolymerase: Evaluation of resistance to the phytopathogenic bacterium Erwinia amylovora”, in Indra K. Vasil, editor, Plant Biotechnology 2002 and Beyond: Proceedings of the 10th IAPTC&B Congress, page 153:
text: A very serious bacterial disease in North America and Europe is fire blight, which can be most destructive to pears. In the past, fire blight led to big losses in the USA, destroying established pear orchards in one season.
ref: 2008, A. T. G. Elzebroek, Guide to Cultivated Plants, page 82:
topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: A bacterial plant disease, caused by Erwinia amylovora, that affects apples, pears and some other members of the Rosaceae family.
riflewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riflewomen
Etymology: From rifle + woman.
Senses: glosses: The female equivalent of a rifleman.
riflewomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riflewoman
holarctic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Holarctic
Etymology: From holo- + Arctic.
Senses: examples: text: It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page ix:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Distributed in a geographic range around the North Pole; restricted to Arctic regions.
Related terms: Antarctic
Arctic
Nearctic
Palearctic
recharacterize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recharacterizes
form: recharacterizing
form: recharacterized
form: recharacterized
Etymology: From re- + characterize.
Senses: glosses: To characterize again or anew.
Derived terms: recharacterization
recharacterizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recharacterize
recharacterizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recharacterize
recharacterized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recharacterize
rechannelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rechannel
rechannelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rechannellings
Senses: glosses: The process by which something is rechannelled, or sent in a new direction.
rechannelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rechannel
minirefrigerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minirefrigerators
Etymology: From mini- + refrigerator.
Senses: glosses: A small refrigerator, such as is often found in hotel or dormitory rooms
Synonyms: minifridge
minirefrigerators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minirefrigerator
willy-nilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭl′ē-nĭl′ē
ipa: /ˌwɪl.iːˈnɪl.iː/
ipa: /ˌwɪl.iˈnɪl.i/
ipa: /ˌwəl.iːˈnəl.iː/
ipa: /ˌwil.iːˈnil.iː/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: more willy-nilly
form: most willy-nilly
form: willy nilly
Etymology: From will I, nill I (also with ye or he instead of I), meaning “[if] I am/ye are/he is willing, [or if] I am/ye are/he is not willing.” See will (“to desire, to wish, to be willing”), nill (“to not desire, to not wish, to be unwilling”).
Senses: examples: text: Some writers chasing money churn out novels willy-nilly.
text: Whenever I see a long handsome neck, willy nilly, the thought will come uppermost—What a capital neck for carving! Those cursed executions! One can't rid one's mind of them.
ref: 1868, [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe, translated by Arthur Duke Coleridge, Egmont. A Tragedy. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, act II, page 40:
text: [I]f you love him not, then you can love me, and, therefore, can come to please yourself, willy-nilly. What! am I to be thwarted in such a trifle? Willy-nilly, I say, I will marry thee. Come—we waste the time.
ref: 1889, Walter Besant, “A Slight Thing at the Best”, in For Faith and Freedom […], volume II, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 243:
text: The outer world is what we wake up to every morning of our lives, is the place where, willy-nilly, we must try to make our living.
ref: 1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 36:
synonyms: nilly-willy
nolens volens
glosses: Whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected; whether willingly or unwillingly.
examples: text: The novel Alice in Wonderland describes a place where things happen willy-nilly.
glosses: Seemingly at random; haphazardly.
willy-nilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭl′ē-nĭl′ē
ipa: /ˌwɪl.iːˈnɪl.iː/
ipa: /ˌwɪl.iˈnɪl.i/
ipa: /ˌwəl.iːˈnəl.iː/
ipa: /ˌwil.iːˈnil.iː/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: more willy-nilly
form: most willy-nilly
form: willy nilly
Etymology: From will I, nill I (also with ye or he instead of I), meaning “[if] I am/ye are/he is willing, [or if] I am/ye are/he is not willing.” See will (“to desire, to wish, to be willing”), nill (“to not desire, to not wish, to be unwilling”).
Senses: examples: text: [S]omeone saw thy willy-nilly nun / Vying a tress against our golden fern.
ref: 1877, Alfred Tennyson, Harold: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, Act V, scene v, page 129:
text: O my God, if man be only / A willy-nilly current of sensations— / Reaction needs must follow revel—yet— / Why feel remorse, he, knowing that he must have / Moved in the iron grooves of Destiny?
ref: 1882, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Promise of May”, in Locksley Hall Sixty Years After etc., London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1886, →OCLC, Act II, page 119:
synonyms: nilly-willy
glosses: That happens whether willingly or unwillingly.
glosses: Seemingly random; haphazard; arbitrary.
nonlobbying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lobbying.
Senses: glosses: Not lobbying.
anticryptococcal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + cryptococcal.
Senses: glosses: That prevents or inhibits cryptococcosis.
weakminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weakminded
form: most weakminded
Etymology: From weak + minded.
Senses: examples: text: An aroma of fraud hung about it, and only a weakminded person would waste time on it.
ref: 2001, Upton Sinclair, Presidential Agent I - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 218:
text: They appeal to the brave gens and gens braves as opposed to the "weakminded" and "dishonest" politicians and they assume that those once ready to die for the fatherland should again unite in the spirit of battleground comradeship
ref: 1961, J. A. Laponce, The Government of the Fifth Republic, page 158:
text: It didn't help that here, even more than back home, the promise of justice was little more than reassurance for the weakminded.
ref: 2006, Andrew Fish, Erasmus Hobart and the Golden Arrow, →ISBN, page 61:
text: Existing studies of such institutions show that different institutional situations resulted in different ways of classifying weakminded inmates.
ref: 1994, Michael Clark, Catherine Crawford, Legal Medicine in History, →ISBN, page 234:
glosses: Alternative spelling of weak-minded.
Derived terms: weakmindedness
weakheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weakheaded
form: most weakheaded
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of weak-headed.
Derived terms: weakheadedness
weakbrained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weakbrained
form: most weakbrained
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of weak-brained.
weakwilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weakwilled
form: most weakwilled
Senses: examples: text: Killership requires a person to become brave and polite. It is not deal of weakwilled and spineless people. This deal likes neither cheating nor foolishness.
ref: 2012, Vagif Sultanly, Iraj Ismaely, Modern Azerbaijanian Prose:
glosses: Alternative spelling of weak-willed.
Easters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Easter
Easters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Easter
overwordy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overwordy
form: most overwordy
Etymology: From over- + wordy.
Senses: glosses: Excessively wordy.
Derived terms: overwordiness
overwordiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overwordy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Excessive wordiness.
mes-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: mesenchyma
glosses: prevocalic variant of meso-
intermesh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intermeshes
form: intermeshing
form: intermeshed
form: intermeshed
Etymology: From inter- + mesh.
Senses: glosses: To mesh between one another.
intermeshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intermesh
intermeshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intermesh
intermeshings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intermeshing
schemingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more schemingly
form: most schemingly
Etymology: From scheming + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a scheming manner; deviously.
gyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynes
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “female”). Doublet of quean and queen.
Senses: glosses: The primary reproductive female caste of social insects (especially ants, wasps, and bees), those destined to become queens.
Derived terms: macrogyne
monogyne
polygyne
pseudogyne
gyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynes
Etymology: Clipping of gynecologist.
Senses: glosses: gynecologist
gyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of gynecomastia.
Senses: examples: text: Gynecomastia is estimated to affect anywhere from 30 to 70 per cent of males at some stage of their lives. And "gyne" or "gyno", as it's commonly known, is not only an unwelcome (and ironic) side-effect of anabolic-androgenic - that is, muscle-building and masculinising - steroids: it can also be caused by other hormonal disruptors such as alcohol, cigarettes, cannabis, obesity, puberty (usually temporarily) and old age. But [Tom] Powell says his gyno was "99 percent" likely due to steroids.
ref: 2022 June 28, Jamie Millar, “'SARM Goblins': The Young Men Hooked on Steroids”, in VICE, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2023:
glosses: gynecomastia
gynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyne
gynarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gynarchy
gynarchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gynarchic
form: most gynarchic
Etymology: From gynarchy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to gynarchy.
socialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sociality
blinkt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blink
delf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlf
Forms: form: delfs
form: delves
form: delft
form: delve
Etymology: From Middle English delf, delve, dælf (“a quarry, clay pit, hole; an artificial watercourse, a canal, a ditch, a trench; a grave; a pitfall”), from Old English delf, ġedelf (“delving, digging”) and dælf (“that which is dug, delf, ditch”), from Proto-West Germanic *delban (“to dig”), from Proto-Germanic *delbaną (“to dig”). More at delve.
Senses: glosses: A mine, quarry, pit dug; ditch.
examples: text: two delves gules
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A charge representing a square sod of turf, traditionally taking the form of a simple square (e.g. in the middle of an escutcheon), although modernly sometimes represented with the grass in profile.
examples: text: Five nothings in five plates of delf
ref: 1723, Jonathan Swift, Stella at Wood Park:
text: Suddenly a beautiful delf blue-and-white flower-pot, which had been set on the window-sill of an upper storey, fell to the ground with a crash, and the fragments spluttered up around my father's legs.
ref: 1848 April – 1849 October, E[dward] Bulwer-Lytton, chapter IV, in The Caxtons: A Family Picture, volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1849, →OCLC, part I, page 26:
text: That's all—do what we do, but noblier done— / Use plate, whereas we eat our meals off delf, / (To use a figure).
ref: 1864, Robert Browning, “Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"”, in Wikisource, line 832, retrieved 18 Jan 2012:
text: Men can't munch from meatless pots and doughless delf.
ref: 1941, Sarah Atherton, Mark's Own, Bobbs-Merrill:
glosses: Alternative form of delft (“style of earthenware”).
Derived terms: stonedelf
dolve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And wo worth that man, that first dolue the moulde / To fynde out the myne, of syluer and golde.
ref: 1545, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, An excellent epitaffe of syr Thomas wyat with two other compendious dytties […] , London: Iohn Herforde:
text: And Mannaryng met, both in an Orcharde. / And Dauid the Dicar, came in wyth hys spade: / And dolue vp the Dreamer, tyl the line was made.
ref: 1552, Thomas Camell, Camelles reioindre to Churchyarde […] , London: Hary Sutton:
text: […]it is not fit for the Prince to digge and dolve, and yet he can doe the greater, to make and ordaine laws: so in the Church affaires, he is not to preach, because he wanteth a calling thereunto.
ref: 1611, Andrew Willet, chapter XII, in Hexapla, that is, A six-fold commentarie vpon the most diuine Epistle of the holy apostle S. Paul to the Romanes […] , Cambridge: Cantrell Legge, page 611:
glosses: simple past of delve
see the wood for the trees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees the wood for the trees
form: seeing the wood for the trees
form: saw the wood for the trees
form: seen the wood for the trees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of see the forest for the trees.
raw_tags: in the negative
crocoites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crocoite
crocodylomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crocodylomorph
soln
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solns
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of solution.
defn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defns
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of definition.
abbrevn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abbrevns
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of abbreviation.
contd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of continued.
pls
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: pls.
form: plz
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of please.
mltply
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of multiply.
shrthnd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: SECRETARIAL: TYPING WPM _____ SHRTHND WPM _____
ref: 1979, United States. Dept. of State, Department of State News Letter, page 26:
glosses: Abbreviation of shorthand.
c*nt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: c*nts
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of cunt.
tw*t
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tw*ts
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of twat.
tw*t
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tw*ts
form: tw*tting
form: tw*tted
form: tw*tted
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of twat.
p*ss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: p*sses
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of piss.
p*ss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: p*sses
form: p*ssing
form: p*ssed
form: p*ssed
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of piss.
t*ts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of t*t
glosses: Censored spelling of tits.
t*rd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: t*rds
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of turd.
glosses: Censored spelling of tard.
motherf****r
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motherf****rs
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of motherfucker.
f***ing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “You f***ing destroyed the whole f***ing match. The whole f***ing match, you destroyed,” Zverev can be heard shouting at the umpire, before going back to his chair to hit it one more time.
ref: 2022 February 23, Matias Grez, “Alexander Zverev is withdrawn from Mexican Open after striking umpire’s chair multiple times”, in CNN:
glosses: Censored spelling of fucking.
f***ing
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: “You f***ing destroyed the whole f***ing match. The whole f***ing match, you destroyed,” Zverev can be heard shouting at the umpire, before going back to his chair to hit it one more time.
ref: 2022 February 23, Matias Grez, “Alexander Zverev is withdrawn from Mexican Open after striking umpire’s chair multiple times”, in CNN:
glosses: Censored spelling of fucking.
Related terms: effing
kerve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kerves
form: kerving
form: kerved
form: kerved
Senses: examples: text: In that figure […]Plinius saw him kerved.
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
text: That else was like to sterve Through cruell knife, that her deare hart did kerve.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of carve.
c*cksucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: c*cksuckers
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of cocksucker.
klink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Try to hem me up like for life / Stuck in the klink, haters in blue / How they set me up? Should I test my luck? / Here they come, they're in pursuit
ref: 2011, Death Grips, “Klink”, in Exmilitary:
glosses: Alternative spelling of clink (“prison”).
p**s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: p**ses
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of piss.
p**s
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: p**ses
form: p**sing
form: p**sed
form: p**sed
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of piss.
f***er
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: f***ers
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of fucker.
f**khead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: f**kheads
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of fuckhead.
pr*ck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pr*cks
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of prick.
s**thead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: s**theads
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of shithead.
b*tch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: b*tches
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of bitch.
sl*t
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sl*ts
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of slut.
b****cks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of bollocks.
b****cks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: b****ck
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of bollocks.
b****cks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: b****ckses
form: b****cksing
form: b****cksed
form: b****cksed
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of bollocks.
a**e
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a**es
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of arse.
a**hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a**holes
Senses: examples: text: “Don’t help elect Trump, you egotistical billionaire a**hole,” the protester yelled. “Go back to getting ratioed on Twitter. Go back to Davos with the other billionaire elites who think they know how to run the world. That’s not what democracy is.”
ref: 2019 January 29, Veronica Stracqualursi, “Former Starbucks CEO heckled at book event for weighing independent run: ‘Don’t help elect Trump!’”, in CNN:
glosses: Censored spelling of asshole.
c*ck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: c*cks
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of cock.
d*ck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: d*cks
Senses: examples: text: Every angsty Millennial female knows the old adage all too well: "God gave man a brain and a d*ck, but only enough blood to run one at a time."
ref: 2014 October 29, Alexia Lafata, “Do Men Think With Their D*cks? The Science Behind The Other Head”, in Elite Daily:
glosses: Censored spelling of dick.
w*nk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: w*nks
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of wank.
w*nk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: w*nks
form: w*nking
form: w*nked
form: w*nked
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of wank.
w**ker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: w**kers
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of wanker.
w*nker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: w*nkers
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of wanker.
w**k
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: w**ks
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of wank.
w**k
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: w**ks
form: w**king
form: w**ked
form: w**ked
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of wank.
funfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funfest
fungaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fungaemia
prodrop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pro-drop
Etymology: pro(noun) + drop, with clipping.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In which certain classes of pronoun may be omitted when they can be inferred.
raw_tags: of a language or of some utterances within one
Derived terms: pro-drop language
paschal candle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paschal candles
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: Easter candle
glosses: A large symbolic white candle used at Easter.
Easter lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Easter lilies
Senses: glosses: Lilium longiflorum, a species of flowering plant in the lily family associated with Easter.
glosses: An emblem of the lily in the Irish colours of green, white, orange: used to commemorate the Easter rebellion of 1916.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Echinopsis chiloensis
word: Easter lily cactus
taxonomic: Beaumontia grandiflora
word: Easter lily vine
Paschal troparion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paschal troparia
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: In the Eastern Orthodox church, a traditional hymn sung at Easter (Pascha)
Great Lent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A calque from a language with traditional Orthodox practice, where this fast is called "great" to distinguish it from the Advent and Dormition fasts, likely a calque of Byzantine Greek Μεγάλη Νηστεία (Megálē Nēsteía).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: In Eastern Christianity, the period of fasting before Pascha.
Synonyms: Great Fast
Related terms: Lent
Paschal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpaskəl/
Etymology: From Latin paschālis; ultimately from Hebrew פסח (pésakh). Doublet of Pascal and pascal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Easter.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Passover.
Derived terms: Paschal basket
paschal candle
paschal flower
Paschal Lamb
Paschal Moon
Paschal term
Paschaltide
Paschaltime
Paschal Triduum
Paschal troparion
Paschal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpaskəl/
Etymology: From Latin paschālis; ultimately from Hebrew פסח (pésakh). Doublet of Pascal and pascal.
Senses: glosses: A surname
Related terms: pasque
Eastery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Eastery
form: most Eastery
Etymology: From Easter + -y.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to Easter
glosses: reminiscent of Easter
Easter egg roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Easter egg rolls
Senses: glosses: A competition, held at Easter, in which an egg is pushed along a lawn.
Paschal Lamb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæs.kəl ˈlæm/
ipa: /ˈpɑːs.kəl ˈlæm/
ipa: /ˈpæs.kəl ˈlæm/
Forms: form: Paschal Lambs
form: paschal lamb
Senses: examples: text: The Paschal Lamb was instituted and eaten the night before the children of Israel were indeed delivered from Egypt.
ref: c. 1530, John Frith, The Paschal Lamb and our Sacrament are here Compared Together:
glosses: The lamb eaten at Passover.
glosses: Jesus Christ symbolized as a sacrifice.
examples: text: […]but when the Holy or Paschal Lamb is intended then the face should be guardant or reguardant.
ref: 1894, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms used in Heraldry, revised edition, page 362:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A lamb depicted with nimbus and bearing a flag (usually St. George's cross: argent a cross gules).
Synonyms: sense: Jesus as sacrifice
word: Agnus Dei
sense: Jesus as sacrifice
word: Lamb of God
sense: Jesus as sacrifice
word: Passover Lamb
sense: Jesus as sacrifice
word: Passover lamb
topics: heraldry
hobbies
nobility
monarchy
politics
government
lifestyle
word: Holy Lamb
topics: heraldry
hobbies
nobility
monarchy
politics
government
lifestyle
word: Agnus Dei
Paschal Lambs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Paschal Lamb
I'd like to kiss you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to ask to kiss a person.
there you are
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used while giving someone something. Here you are; there you go.
examples: text: Right, the committee has considered your request and denied it, so there you are.
synonyms: that's that
it is what it is
glosses: Said to indicate that one has finished talking, or to express finality or fatalism, particularly regarding unpleasant news.
Related terms: wherever you go, there you are
cubitus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubiti
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cubitus. Doublet of cubit.
Senses: glosses: The ulna.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the media and the postcubitus; the vein running along the dorsal edge of the discal cell.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The elbow, or the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The forearm; the arm from the elbow to fingertip, or the corresponding portion of a jointed limb of an animal that uses the limb for locomotion or grasping.
Synonyms: sense: vein of insect wing
word: Cu
Derived terms: articulatio cubiti
cubital
mandril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: mandrill
Forms: form: mandrils
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mandrel.
foolhardice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foolhardise
form: foolhardize
Etymology: From foolhardy, with suffix modelled on cowardice.
Senses: examples: text: Fly therefore, fly this fearefull stead anon, / Least thy foolhardize worke thy sad confusion.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Foolhardiness.
upbray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upbrays
form: upbraying
form: upbrayed
form: upbrayed
Etymology: Back-formation from upbrayd, obsolete past participle of upbraid.
Senses: examples: text: He wexed wondrous wroth, and said, Vile knight, / That knights & knighthood doest with shame vpbray […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To upbraid.
maebari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese マエバリ.
Senses: examples: text: A scene from Rei Sakamoto's 21st Century Girl (2001) showing Rina Sasahara, with maebari clearly visible[…]
ref: 2008, Jasper Sharp, Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema, page 14:
glosses: A type of strapless Japanese loincloth used as a female underwear garment that covers the genitals.
bisadduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisadducts
Etymology: From bis- + adduct.
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
Both π-bonds in 42 react with DMAD in the presence of a Ru-catalyst to produce bisadduct 43; this is the first example of a cyclobutene π-bond reacting in this fashion.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The product of two simultaneous addition reactions on the same molecule
bisadducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
These reactions, which are improved by conducting the experiments under high-pressure conditions, can be extended to the formation of bisadducts by using the biscyclobutene 6; e.g., adamantylidenylfulvene37 affords the symmetrical product 39 as outlined in Scheme 8.
glosses: plural of bisadduct
Fish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
homophone: fish
Forms: form: Fishes
Etymology: From fish, a metonymic occupational surname for a fish seller or a nickname for someone who resembled a fish. It could also be an Americanized spelling of German Fisch.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
queint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more queint
form: most queint
Senses: examples: text: with fresh onset he assaild, / And kindling new his courage seeming queint, / Strooke him so hugely [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of quenched.
glosses: Obsolete form of quaint.
depainted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He made him stoup perforce vnto his knee, / And do vnwilling worship to the Saint, / That on his shield depainted he did see […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Painted, depicted.
delice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈliːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: delices
Etymology: From Old French delice, from Latin dēlicium.
Senses: examples: text: he has pourd out his idle mind / In daintie delices, and lauish ioyes […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Delight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure.
Derived terms: flower delice
delice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈliːs/
rhymes: -iːs
ipa: /diːˈlaɪs/
ipa: /dɪˈliːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: delices
form: delicing
form: deliced
form: deliced
Etymology: From de- + lice.
Senses: examples: text: Every year, as a fixed ritual just before the spring break, the school held a delicing day.
glosses: To rid of lice.
delices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delice
delices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of delice
aggrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aggrates
form: aggrating
form: aggrated
form: aggrated
Etymology: From Italian aggradare, from Latin aggrātāre.
Senses: examples: text: And euery of them stroue, with most delights, / Him to aggrate, and greatest pleasures shew […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To gratify, cause pleasure to.
gravity meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gravity meter
sovenance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old French souvenance, from the verb sovenir.
Senses: examples: text: worldly sovenance he mustforsay
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
text: Her light behauiour, and loose dalliaunce / Gaue wondrous great contentment to the knight, / That of his way he had no souenaunce […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Memory, remembrance.
arborets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arboret
belamour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belamours
Etymology: From Middle French bel amour.
Senses: examples: text: Loe loe how braue she decks her bounteous boure, / With silken curtens and gold couerlets, / Therein to shrowd her sumptuous Belamoure [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A loved one; a darling, lover.
belamours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belamour
have a stab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a stab
form: having a stab
form: had a stab
form: had a stab
Senses: glosses: To make an attempt, a try.
pulis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puli
nosocomium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosocomia
Etymology: From Latin nosocomīum.
Senses: glosses: An ancient hospital.
forky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: forkier
form: more forky
form: forkiest
form: most forky
Etymology: From fork + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]
ref: 1669, John Baptiſta Porta, chapter V, in Natural Magick, The Third Book Of Natural Magick: […] , page 68:
text: The Leaves are compoſed each of ſeven parts; the Flowers grow by two's on forky Footſtalks.
ref: 1764, John Hill, The Vegetable System. Or, The Internal Structure And The Life Of Plants; […] , volume 7, page 32:
text: The forky lightning flashed, and the deep toned thunder reverberated peal on peal, while the shrieking winds rocked the tree tops, and poured their wild melody upon the ear.
ref: 1857, Abigail Stanley Hanna, Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland:
text: The column of fire now ascended above the main-top—licking with its forky tongue the top-mast rigging—and embracing the mainmast in its folds: […]
ref: 1896, Captain Frederick Marryat, The Phantom Ship:
text: At the sight of the young man it lashed its tail so violently that the earth trembled as if with an earthquake, while its forky tongue darted in and out with a deafening hissing noise.
ref: 1921, Various, The Red Romance Book:
glosses: Synonym of forked.
synonyms: word: forked
Derived terms: forkiness
formidability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formidabilities
Etymology: From formidable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: A Mackintosh has been taken, who reduces their formidability, by being sent to raise two clans, and with orders, if they would not rise, at least to give out they had risen, for that three clans would leave the Pretender, unless joined by those two.
ref: 1890, Horace Walpole, Letters of Horace Walpole:
text: As Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted platinum skull has recently indicated, Death’s formidability often encourages extravagance. Mr. Fabre covers a skull in brilliantly colored beetle shells; Mr. Van Oost casts one in silver (with a hand poking its eyes out).
ref: 2007 October 10, Roberta Smith, “Going the Way of All Flesh, Artistically”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state of being formidable.
forspent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnt
Forms: form: more forspent
form: most forspent
Etymology: From the past participle of forspend, equivalent to for- + spent.
Senses: examples: text: IV. But he felt no hunger, and unheeded Left the wine, and eager for the rest Which his limbs, forspent with travel, needed, On the couch he laid him, still undress'd.
ref: 1844, Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI.:
text: Messire Gawain taketh it, for his own was broken short, and departeth from the knight and commendeth him to God. And he goeth his way a great pace, and Messire Gawain also goeth amidst the forest, and full weary is he and forspent with travail.
ref: 1898, Unknown, High History of the Holy Graal:
glosses: exhausted
Related terms: forspend
fosterling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fosterlings
Etymology: From Middle English fosterling, from Old English fōstorling, equivalent to foster + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: 'We know him indeed, this boy,' said Conall Cernach, 'and we know him none the worse that he is a fosterling of ours.
ref: 1904, Unknown, The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge):
glosses: a foster child
fragmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From fragment + -al.
Senses: examples: text: These are similar in composition to the leaner iron ores of Brazil, called itabirite, but differ in that the silica is in the form of chemically deposited chert, rather than fragmental quartz grains.
ref: 1921, C. K. Leith, The Economic Aspect of Geology:
text: However, the most common killer in fatal eruptions is tephra, which includes all fragmental material thrown from volcanoes, killing mainly by collapse of ash-covered roofs (the most deaths) or by projectile impact (by far the largest number of fatal tephra accidents).
ref: 2001 January 12, Tom Simkin et al., “DISASTERS: Volcano Fatalities--Lessons from the Historical Record”, in Science, volume 291, number 5502, →DOI:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: consisting of fragments
Derived terms: fragmentalize
fragmentally
interfragmental
fragmental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: fragmentals
Etymology: From fragment + -al.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fragmentary rock.
kicksled
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kicksleds
Etymology: Calque of Finnish potkukelkka (“kick sled”), equivalent to kick + sled. This term possibly because arose the device appears to be first introduced to larger American audience in the form kick-sled in the Feb. 26th 1940 issue of the Life magazine in a story of the Finnish Winter War.
Senses: glosses: A type of small sled consisting of a handlebar mounted on a pair of flexible metal runners. The driver stands on the runners and kicks the sled forward with one foot. In front of the handlebar there's often a seat for a passenger.
Synonyms: english: used especially by the Americans of Norwegian descent
translation: used especially by the Americans of Norwegian descent
word: spark
kicksled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicksleds
form: kicksledding
form: kicksledded
form: kicksledded
Etymology: Calque of Finnish potkukelkka (“kick sled”), equivalent to kick + sled. This term possibly because arose the device appears to be first introduced to larger American audience in the form kick-sled in the Feb. 26th 1940 issue of the Life magazine in a story of the Finnish Winter War.
Senses: examples: text: They were popularized by kicksledding and dog scootering – used to keep sled dogs in shape in summer.
ref: 2009 March 24, “Bicycle? Scooter? Actually, it's both”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: To travel by kicksled
Ingland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of England.
German Ocean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the German Ocean
Senses: examples: text: If we take the oldest specimens of Flemish and Frisian, and compare them with the English of King Alfred and the Norse that was spoken by the settlers of Iceland, we realize how very close was the kinship a thousand years ago among the people on all coasts of the German Ocean.
ref: 1902, John Fiske, The writings of John Fiske:
glosses: North Sea
aforetimes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈfɔːˌtaɪmz/
Forms: form: aforetymes
Etymology: From aforetime + -s.
Senses: examples: text: When he had saied no: what (ſaid Ariſtippus) is it ſhame to ſaile in a Shippe, that hath afoꝛetymes caried a great nomber mo: […]
ref: 1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Aristippus”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book I, folio 43, verso, paragraph 42:
glosses: Formerly, formerly.
aforetimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈfɔːˌtaɪmz/
Forms: form: aforetymes
Etymology: From aforetime + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of aforetime
daith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑθ/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /deɪθ/
Forms: form: daiths
form: daith piercing
Etymology: From Hebrew דעת (da'at, “knowledge”), possibly because of the belief that a ring daith piercing only allows intelligent speech to be heard.
Senses: glosses: An ear piercing in the inner cartilage just above the earhole.
Corinto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Morazán department, El Salvador.
frypan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frypans
form: fry-pan
form: fry pan
Etymology: From fry + pan.
Senses: examples: text: On the afternoon in question the Jensens were using an electric frypan on the table in the annexe to cook a roast dinner. The source of electric power for the frypan was a power point situated near the stove inside the caravan.
ref: 1995, Queensland Supreme Court, Queensland Reports, volume 2, page 147:
text: Place beef in frypan and cook for 1 minute on each side. Remove beef from pan and cover. Place reserved marinade in frypan, add mushrooms and simmer until marinade has reduced and mushrooms are soft.
ref: 1997, Donna Hay, Marie Claire cooking, page 103:
text: It has 20 pieces (including a 6-piece tool set and a non-stick frypan) and costs $150.
ref: 2003, The Editors of Consumer Reports, The Buying Guide 2004, page 257:
text: A pile of assorted kitchen gear—a heavy frypan dark with soot, several spoons and forks stuck tidily in a clean pot, a kettle as blackened as the frypan, and a large pot that tilted benignly to one side—rested against the side of the firepit.
ref: 2004, Faith Richardson, Fay Lapka Richardson, Hoverlight, page 200:
glosses: A frying pan.
Synonyms: frying pan
skillet
furnisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furnishers
Etymology: From furnish + -er.
Senses: examples: text: His brain, after working at top speed during the day with the architect, the painter and decorator, the furnisher, the garden expert, the plumbing expert, the electric-light expert, the lawyer, the estate agent, and numberless other persons, during the night meditated and evolved advertisements.
ref: 1919, Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim, Christopher and Columbus:
glosses: one who furnishes
gallopade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallopades
form: galoppade
form: galopade
Senses: examples: text: At the same instant the sounding gallopade of hoofs came from the tranquil roadway leading to the stables.
ref: 1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game:
glosses: gallop
glosses: A type of dance, also known as the galop.
examples: text: They were a regular series of thumpings from the interior of the house, occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous gallopade, the favourite ditty of "The Spotted Cow".
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 28:
glosses: The music for this kind of dance.
gallopade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gallopades
form: gallopading
form: gallopaded
form: gallopaded
form: galoppade
form: galopade
Senses: glosses: To gallop, as on horseback.
glosses: To perform the dance called gallopade.
gantline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gantlines
Senses: examples: text: A moment later, I saw the man's head appear over the top. He had the tail-block slung round his neck, and the end of the gantline over his shoulder.
ref: 1909, William Hope Hodgson, The Ghost Pirates, Chapter IV:
text: He drew deep breath; a gantline swayed aloft
A lower topsail, hard with rope and leather,
Such as men's frozen fingers fight with oft
Below the Ramirez in Cape Hom weather.
ref: 1913, John Masefield, Dauber (poem):
text: “Now then — to the main topsail now! Tally on to that gantline. Don't stand about there!”
ref: 1914, Joseph Conrad, chapter 4, in The Niger of Narkissos:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: girtline
glosses: A line rigged to a mast, used to hoist rigging.
Related terms: halyard
gantlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gantline