cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
seep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sēp
ipa: /siːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: seeps
form: seeping
form: seeped
form: seeped
Etymology: Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”).
See also Middle Dutch sīpen (“to drip”), German Low German siepern (“to seep”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”); also Latin sēbum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek εἴβω (eíbō, “to drop, drip”)). See soap.
Senses: examples: text: Water has seeped through the roof.
text: The water steadily seeped in through the thirl.
glosses: To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
examples: text: Woe seeped through her heart thinking of what had befallen their ethnic group.
text: Fear began to seep into the local community over the contamination of their fishpond.
glosses: To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
examples: text: The resistance movement against the invaders had slowly seeped away.
glosses: To diminish or wane away slowly.
examples: text: The crack is seeping water.
text: If the crack is seeping water, the foam totally stops the leakage.
ref: 2015, Crack repair service, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2020:
text: Just when I thought I was done checking it over, I smelled coolant....remove the engine cover and bam! 1 inch crack is seeping coolant!
ref: 2009 April 16, Crownvic forums:
glosses: (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.
examples: text: wi' the weet / We're seepit to the skin
ref: 1844, James Lemon, editor, Lays of St. Mungo; Or, The Minstrelsy of the West [quoted in the EDD]:
text: a young lad's mind, whilk had seeped in, for many a day, the rain of adversity
ref: 1897, W. Beatty, The Secretar: Based on the Story of the Casket Letters [quoted in the EDD], page 108:
glosses: To soak.
Synonyms: leak
seep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sēp
ipa: /siːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: seeps
Etymology: Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”).
See also Middle Dutch sīpen (“to drip”), German Low German siepern (“to seep”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”); also Latin sēbum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek εἴβω (eíbō, “to drop, drip”)). See soap.
Senses: glosses: A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping.
glosses: Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage.
glosses: The seeping away of a liquid, etc.
examples: text: Another idea was that filamentous bacteria covering the hairs [of the Yeti crab] would either neutralize gases emitted from the vent or serve the crab directly as a food source. And this last idea received support when a second species of Yeti crab was discovered on cold seeps on the deep-sea floor near Costa Rica.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 356:
glosses: A seafloor vent.
Derived terms: seep mudalia
Related terms: sip
siphon
gaggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæɡl̩/
rhymes: -æɡəl
Forms: form: gaggles
Etymology: From Middle English gagelen (“to cackle; cackle like a goose”). Compare Dutch gaggelen (“to cackle”), Icelandic gagl (“small goose; gosling”), Norwegian Nynorsk gagl (“wild goose”).
Senses: examples: text: The Canada geese always flew over the 80 acre lake; it was a landmark on their route and a stopping point for many a gaggle, where many hours were spent after feeding in the farmers' fields.
ref: 2011, Denise A. White, The Goose and the Crone, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 11:
text: They're only referred to as a gaggle when they're on land. When they're flying in formation they can be referred to as a skein.
ref: 2019 June 6, “A gaggle, a confusion and a conspiracy - bizarre animal collective group names”, in BBC:
coordinate_terms: skein
glosses: A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
examples: text: There were no signs and no one quite knew how to navigate the museum, including, as it was Fleet Week, gaggles of boyish sailors all in their summer whites. It looked like a Frank Sinatra movie.
ref: 2014 June 7, Vicki Woods, “Sadness, and a surprise, at the 9/11 Museum”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2014, page 24:
text: The crow’s name was Betty. And she was on her way to stardom. A gaggle of Oxford University scientists watched in wonder as she casually picked up a piece of wire in her cage and then used a nearby object to bend it at one end, transforming the wire into a hooked tool.
ref: 2019 December 12, Chris Baraniuk, “Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates”, in BBC Future:
text: The party level ramps up at Thornaby, where a gaggle of women on a 50th birthday bash join us.
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 74:
text: Millwall were allocated 3,781 tickets for this six-mile trip down the south London train tracks. The away end was duly packed out and ringed, sternly, by a gaggle of widely jeered Metropolitan police.
ref: 2025 March 1, Barney Ronay, “Crystal Palace through after Millwall keeper’s red for head-high tackle on Mateta”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: bunch
glosses: Any group or gathering of related things, particularly one perceived as noisy, boisterous or chaotic.
examples: text: Last week, Mr. Trump told the [Christian Science] Monitor during a gaggle with reporters that there were “about four” other states where Republicans should redraw the maps besides Texas.
ref: 2025 July 24, Cameron Joseph, “Trump has opened up ‘a nuclear arms race’ on gerrymandering”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Short for press gaggle: an informal briefing of journalists.
Hyponyms: sense: group of geese
word: parade
Derived terms: press gaggle
gaggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæɡl̩/
rhymes: -æɡəl
Forms: form: gaggles
form: gaggling
form: gaggled
form: gaggled
Etymology: From Middle English gagelen (“to cackle; cackle like a goose”). Compare Dutch gaggelen (“to cackle”), Icelandic gagl (“small goose; gosling”), Norwegian Nynorsk gagl (“wild goose”).
Senses: examples: text: Geese do gaggle
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: When a friend asked Socrates, how he could bear the scolding of his wife Xantippe? he retorted, and asked him, how he could bear the gaggling of his geese?
ref: 1733, Jonathan Swift, "A New Simile for the Ladies with Useful Annotations by Dr. Sheridan", note 7 (in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II)
glosses: To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
Derived terms: gaggler
gaggly
Related terms: skein
wedge
skein
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: skān
ipa: /skeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: skeins
form: skeining
form: skeined
form: skeined
form: skean
form: skain
Etymology: From Middle English skayne, from Old French escaigne (Modern French écagne), probably of Proto-Celtic origin, from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to split off”). Compare Irish scáinne (“skein, clew”).
Senses: glosses: To wind or weave into a skein.
wedge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: wedges
form: wedging
form: wedged
form: wedged
Etymology: From Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.
Senses: examples: text: I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.
text: "Did he take his bottle well?" Mrs. Flanders whispered, and Rebecca nodded and went to the cot and turned down the quilt, and Mrs. Flanders bent over and looked anxiously at the baby, asleep, but frowning. The window shook, and Rebecca stole like a cat and wedged it.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
glosses: To support or secure using a wedge.
examples: text: He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.
text: I wedged into the alcove and listened carefully.
text: During [Tucker] Carlson’s keynote, he wedged sneers at his critics for crying “racist!” in between racist remarks about [Ilhan] Omar, jeremiads against the media (“I know there’s a bunch of reporters here, so . . . screw you”), and an attack on Elizabeth Warren and her donors (“She’s a tragedy, because she’s now obsessed with racism, which is why the finance world supports her”)—all to gleeful applause.
ref: 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents:
glosses: To force into a narrow gap.
glosses: To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
glosses: To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
examples: text: My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
glosses: To cleave with a wedge.
glosses: To force or drive with a wedge.
glosses: To shape into a wedge.
Derived terms: wedge up
wedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: wedges
Etymology: From Wedgewood, surname of the person who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
Senses: examples: text: The last man is called the Wedge, corresponding to the Spoon in Mathematics.
ref: 1873, Charles Astor Bristed, Five Years in an English University:
qualifier: Cambridge University slang
glosses: The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
Synonyms: wooden wedge
Related terms: wooden spoon
paddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From paddle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paddle
paddling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddlings
Etymology: From Middle English padelynge, equivalent to paddle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of using a paddle.
glosses: An act of corporal punishment consisting of spanking the buttocks with a paddle.
glosses: A collective noun for ducks when they are on water.
meute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
homophone: mute
Forms: form: meutes
Senses: examples: text: Many were held by lay abbots , who , by degrees , expelled the monks ; the cloisters became the camps of their retainers , the stables of their coursers , the kennels of their hounds , the meutes of their hawks.
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
glosses: A cage for hawks; a mew.
romaji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rō'-mə-jē
enpr: rō'-mä-jē
ipa: /ˈɹəʊməd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ɹəʊˈmɑːd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -əʊmədʒiː
rhymes: -ɑːdʒi
Forms: form: romajis
form: Romaji
form: Rōmaji
form: Roma-ji
form: Rōma-ji
form: roma-ji
form: rōmaji
form: romanji
Etymology: Transliteration from Japanese ローマ字(じ) (rōmaji, literally “Roman letters”).
Senses: examples: text: The romaji of the word ローマ字 is “rōmaji”.
text: The katakana and the hiragana are syllabic forms of writing derived from Chinese characters, while the romaji are the letters used in writing most European languages.
ref: 1977, Anthropology, volume 1, page 173:
text: For example, in Japanese advertisements sexy and my house often appear in romaji, making the underlying concepts of eroticism and private ownership more exotic.
ref: 2006, Ralph Fasold, Jeffrey Connor-Linton, An Introduction to Language and Linguistics, page 410:
text: Today people ordinarily use kana-kanji conversion systems for inputting Japanese text. Because many of them can touch-type the romajis for the kanas, the O-code with kana-kanji conversion is more accessible.
ref: 2011, T Okadome, J Nakajima, S Ito, K Kakusho, “An Accessible Coded Input Method for Japanese Extensive Writing”, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Advances in Text Input Methods:
glosses: A representation of Japanese in Latin script.
Hypernyms: romanization
Coordinate terms: hiragana
kanji
katakana
Related terms: romaja
Romajikai
stop
Language: English
Part of speech: punct
Pronunciation: enpr: stŏp
ipa: /stɒp/
enpr: stäp
ipa: /stɑp/
ipa: [stɔp]
ipa: [stɔ(ː)p]
rhymes: -ɒp
Etymology: From Middle English stoppen, stoppien, from Old English stoppian (“to stop, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn, from Proto-Germanic *stuppōną (“to stop, close”), *stuppijaną (“to push, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, *(s)tewb- (“to push; stick”), from *(s)tew- (“to bump; impact; butt; push; beat; strike; hit”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian stopje (“to stop, block”), West Frisian stopje (“to stop”), Dutch stoppen (“to stop”), Low German stoppen (“to stop”), German stopfen (“to be filling, stuff”), German stoppen (“to stop”), Danish stoppe (“to stop”), Swedish stoppa (“to stop”), Icelandic stoppa (“to stop”), Middle High German stupfen, stüpfen (“to pierce”). More at stuff, stump.
Alternative etymology derives Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn from an assumed Vulgar Latin *stūpāre, *stuppāre (“to stop up with tow”), from stūpa, stīpa, stuppa (“tow, flax, oakum”), from Ancient Greek στύπη (stúpē), στύππη (stúppē, “tow, flax, oakum”). This derivation, however, is doubtful, as the earliest instances of the Germanic verb do not carry the meaning of "stuff, stop with tow". Rather, these senses developed later in response to influence from similar sounding words in Latin and Romance.
Senses: glosses: Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
raw_tags: punctuation
stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stŏp
ipa: /stɒp/
enpr: stäp
ipa: /stɑp/
ipa: [stɔp]
ipa: [stɔ(ː)p]
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: stops
Etymology: From Middle English stoppe, from Old English stoppa (“bucket, pail, a stop”), from Proto-Germanic *stuppô (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teub- (“to push, hit; stick, stump”). See stoup.
Cognates
Cognate with Norwegian stopp, stoppa (“deep well, recess”), Middle High German stubech, stübich (“barrel, vat, unit of measure”) (German Stübchen). Related also to Middle Low German stōp (“beaker, flask”), Middle High German stouf (“beaker, flask”), Norwegian staupa (“goblet”), Icelandic staupa (“shot-glass”), Old English stēap (“a stoup, beaker, drinking vessel, cup, flagon”). Cognate to Albanian shtambë (“amphora, bucket”).
Senses: glosses: A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stŏp
ipa: /stɒp/
enpr: stäp
ipa: /stɑp/
ipa: [stɔp]
ipa: [stɔ(ː)p]
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: stops
Etymology: From s- + top.
Senses: examples: text: For neutralino masses below approximately 700 GeV, gluino masses of less than 1.78 TeV and 1.76 TeV are excluded at the 95% CL in simplified models of the pair production of gluinos decaying via sbottom and stop, respectively.
ref: 2016, ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for pair production of gluinos decaying via stop and sbottom in events with b-jets and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
crowd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaʊd/
rhymes: -aʊd
Forms: form: crowds
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English crowde, from Welsh crwth or a Celtic cognate.
Senses: examples: text: A lackey that […] can warble upon a crowd a little.
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of crwth.
examples: text: That keep their Consciences in Cases, / As Fiddlers do their Crowds and Bases,[…]
ref: 1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “The Second Part of Hudibras. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 129:
text: […]wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XI, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 286:
glosses: A fiddle.
Synonyms: word: assemblage
word: congregation
word: crowd
word: flock
word: horde
word: huddle
word: legion
word: mass
word: multitude
word: press
word: slew
word: throng
Hypernyms: word: group
word: lot
Hyponyms: word: audience
word: spectators
word: mob
word: rabble
word: scrum
word: swarm
word: host
Derived terms: crowder
Related terms: word: masses
word: populace
word: public
word: assemble
crowd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaʊd/
rhymes: -aʊd
Forms: form: crowds
form: crowding
form: crowded
form: crowded
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English crowde, from Welsh crwth or a Celtic cognate.
Senses: examples: text: Fiddlers, crowd on, crowd on.
ref: 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Philip Massinger, The Old Law:
glosses: To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
ese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛˌseɪ/
rhymes: -ɛseɪ
homophone: essay
Forms: form: eses
Etymology: From Mexican Spanish ése (“dude”).
Senses: glosses: dude, man. (Usually used vocatively).
ese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛˌseɪ/
rhymes: -ɛseɪ
homophone: essay
Forms: form: eses
Etymology: Cf. ease.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ease.
stroke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹəʊk/
enpr: strōk
ipa: /stɹoʊk/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /stɹʌok/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /stɾʌok/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: strokes
form: stroking
form: stroked
form: stroked
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English strok, stroke (“blow from a weapon, cut”), from Old English strāc, from Proto-West Germanic *straik, from Proto-Germanic *straikaz (“stroke”), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to rub, stroke; to shear; to strike”).
Sense 3.6.2.2 (“the oblique, slash, or virgule (‘/’)”) is a contraction of oblique stroke, a variant of oblique which was originally used in telegraphy.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* German Streich (“stroke”)
* Middle Low German strēk (“stroke, trick, prank”)
* Scots strak, strake, straik (“blow, stroke”)
Senses: glosses: To draw the horizontal line across the upright part (of the letter t).
glosses: Followed by out or through: to draw a line or lines through (text) to indicate that it is deleted; to cancel, to strike or strike out.
glosses: Of a bell or clock: to chime or sound to indicate (the hour, the time, etc.).
glosses: To mark (something) with lines or stripes; to stripe.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit or kick (the ball) with a flowing or smooth motion; also, to score (a goal, a point, etc.) by doing so.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: Of a rower or a crew: to row at (a rate of a certain number of strokes (“movements of the oar through water”) per minute).
examples: text: to stroke a boat
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: To act as the stroke (“rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers”) of (a boat or its crew).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
glosses: To strike (the water) with one's arms and legs when swimming.
glosses: To depict (something) with a paintbrush.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Chiefly followed by out: to suffer loss of brain function when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted; to have a stroke (noun sense 4).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
glosses: To swim by making co-ordinated movements with the arms and legs.
Derived terms: stroke out
stroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹəʊk/
enpr: strōk
ipa: /stɹoʊk/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /stɹʌok/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /stɾʌok/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: strokes
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English stroken, straken (“to caress, fondle, pat, rub, smooth, stroke; to pass something over (someone or something); to brush or rub against;”) [and other forms], from Old English strācian (“to stroke”), from Proto-West Germanic *straikōn (“to caress, stroke”), from *straik (“a line, stroke; a dash”) (see further at etymology 1) + *-ōn (suffix forming verbs from nouns).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
* German streicheln (“to stroke, fondle”)
* German Low German straken, strieken, strakeln, striekeln (“to stroke; caress; fondle”)
* Middle Low German strēken, Middle Dutch strēken (modern Dutch streeken)
* Old High German strīhhan, streihhōn, Middle High German strīchen (modern German streichen (“to stroke; to rub; to spread; to apply; to paint; to cancel; to cross out, strike out; to delete; to discard”))
* Saterland Frisian strookje (“to stroke; caress”)
* West Frisian streakje (“to stroke; caress”)
Senses: examples: text: She gave the cat a stroke.
glosses: An act of moving one's hand or an object along a surface in one direction, touching it lightly; a caress.
examples: text: Not providing a stroke to a client can sometimes facilitate the client in becoming aware of their neediness or desire for approval. By not giving a stroke, the client's need is brought to the surface, where it is amenable to change, […]
ref: 2009, Mark Widdowson, Transactional Analysis: 100 Key Points and Techniques, page 246:
glosses: A gesture of assurance given as encouragement; specifically (psychoanalysis) in transactional analysis: a (generally positive) reaction expressed to a person which fulfils their desires or needs.
glosses: A flattering or friendly act, comment, etc., done or made to a person to influence them.
Derived terms: stroke book
stroke house
stroke mag
vinegar stroke
washer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈwɑʃɚ/
rhymes: -ɒʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: washers
Etymology: From Middle English wasshere, wassher, equivalent to wash + -er. Cognate with Dutch wasser, German Wäscher.
Senses: examples: text: A £1.2 million carriage washer has opened at Norwich Crown Point, enabling Greater Anglia to clean its 58 Stadler trains. It is one of two new washers (the other is for '720s' at Southend), […]
ref: 2021 January 13, “GA opens new carriage washers”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 15:
glosses: Something that washes; especially an appliance such as a washing machine or dishwasher.
hypernyms: cleaner
glosses: A person who washes (especially clothes) for a living; a washerman or washerwoman.
glosses: A person who washes their hands compulsively, as a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
glosses: A face cloth.
Derived terms: air washer
ball washer
carpet washer
chief cook and bottle washer
chief cook and bottle-washer
dish washer
dishwasher
face washer
gas washer
gully-washer
gully washer
gullywasher
head cook and bottle-washer
head cook and bottle washer
log washer
pressure washer
pressure-washer
smoke-washer
spud washer
sweep-washer
tumbler-washer
washer-dryer
washer-upper
window washer
windscreen washer
windshield washer
washer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈwɑʃɚ/
rhymes: -ɒʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: washers
Etymology: Unclear. First recorded in the 14th century.
Senses: examples: text: To ensure that the stays are steamtight, a nut is then screwed tight up to copper washers inside and out.
ref: 1955 February, “The Why and the Wherefore: The Belpaire Firebox”, in Railway Magazine, page 146:
glosses: A flat piece of material, often of metal and often an annulus, placed beneath a nut or at some joint, to distribute pressure, alleviate friction, provide directionally differentiated friction (e.g. making the nut turn counter-clockwise only with difficulty), or prevent leakage.
Derived terms: Belleville washer
lock washer
sealing washer
washer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈwɑʃɚ/
rhymes: -ɒʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: washers
form: washering
form: washered
form: washered
Etymology: Unclear. First recorded in the 14th century.
Senses: glosses: To fit (a mechanical device) with a washer.
torque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔɹk/
ipa: /tɔːk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
homophone: torq
homophone: torc
homophone: talk (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: torques
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin torqueō (“to twist”).
Senses: examples: text: The relative strengths of the various torques will depend on both the spacecraft environment and the form and structure of the spacecraft itself.
ref: 1978, James Richard Wertz, Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control, Springer, page 17:
text: The drillhead produces the drilling rotation and torque but also must slide out of position to allow the machine to manipulate the finisher drill steel and consumables.
ref: 2006, Department of Mining Engineering, Proceedings: 35th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining, volume 25, West Virginia University, page 162:
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
related: word: mul:τ
synonyms: moment of force
coordinate_terms: force
work
energy
power
glosses: A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton-metre or N·m; imperial unit pound-foot or lb·ft, not to be confused with the foot pound-force, commonly "foot-pound", a unit of work or energy)
Derived terms: peak torque
torque converter
torque meter
torque spanner
torque steer
torque wrench
Related terms: torsion
torque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔɹk/
ipa: /tɔːk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
homophone: torq
homophone: torc
homophone: talk (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: torques
form: torquing
form: torqueing
form: torqued
form: torqued
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin torqueō (“to twist”).
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To make something rotate about an axis by imparting torque to it.
Derived terms: torque off
torque up
torque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔɹk/
ipa: /tɔːk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
homophone: torq
homophone: torc
homophone: talk (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: torques
Etymology: From French torque, from Old French, from Latin torquis; or adapted directly from Latin torquēs (“chaplet, collar, necklace of twisted metal, ring, wreath”) (cf. earlier English torques).
Senses: examples: text: But there are the lesser sub-kings of Wales, true to the immemorial schisms amongst themselves, which destroyed the realm of Ambrosius, and rendered vain the arm of Arthur. With their torques of gold, and wild eyes, and hair cut round ears and brow, they stare on the scene.
ref: 1848, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings; […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, book III (The House of Godwin), page 185:
text: People of high rank also wore a torque of gold round the neck, and I observed that our guide had one on.
ref: 1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XII, in Allan Quatermain:
text: “When I see mother next it will be to put a golden torque round her neck,” said the young giant.
ref: 1911, Arthur Conan Doyle, Giant Maximin:
text: Nor did he reneg, but doled out rings
and torques at the table.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 5:
related: word: torc
word: torq
word: torques
glosses: A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples.
Related terms: torquated
throttle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹɒt.l̩/
ipa: /ˈθɹɔ.tl̩/
ipa: /ˈθɹɑ.tl̩/
rhymes: -ɒtəl
Forms: form: throttles
Etymology: From Middle English *throtel, diminutive of throte (“throat”), equivalent to throat + -le. Compare German Drossel (“throttle”). More at throat.
Senses: glosses: A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
examples: text: To my unpractised eye, the undulations in the track were quite imperceptible, but the engineer's hand on the throttle was never still.
ref: 1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 425:
synonyms: accelerator
gas pedal
gas
glosses: The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
examples: text: Then up got Peg, and round the house gan scuttle, / In search of goods her customer to nail, / Until the Sultaun strain'd his princely throttle, / And hollow'd,—"Ma'am, that is not what I ail.["]
ref: 1817 (date written), Walter Scott, “[Songs and Miscellanies.] Search after Happiness; or, The Quest of Sultaun Solimaun”, in The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq. […], volume X, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Company] for Arch[ibald] Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza XIX, pages 235–236:
text: Nor took a punch nor given a swing, / But just soaked deady round the ring / Until their brains and bloods were foul / Enough to make their throttles howl, […]
ref: 1911, John Masefield, The Everlasting Mercy, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., page 7:
text: From the cabin came that horrible song: "Here's to the feet wot have walked the plank. ⁠Yo ho! for the dead man's throttle."
ref: 1915, Russell Thorndike, chapter XXXVII, in Doctor Syn:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The windpipe or trachea.
Derived terms: at full throttle
autothrottle
full throttle
throttle body
throttle chop
throttle jockey
throttle steering
throttle valve
throttle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹɒt.l̩/
ipa: /ˈθɹɔ.tl̩/
ipa: /ˈθɹɑ.tl̩/
rhymes: -ɒtəl
Forms: form: throttles
form: throttling
form: throttled
form: throttled
Etymology: From Middle English throtlen (“to choke, strangle, suffocate”), from the noun (see above). Compare German erdrosseln (“to strangle, choke, throttle”).
Senses: glosses: To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
glosses: To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
examples: text: Grant him this, and the Parliament hath no more freedom than if it sat in his noose, which, when he pleases to draw together with one twitch of his negative, shall throttle a whole nation, to the wish of Caligula, in one neck.
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To strangle or choke someone.
glosses: To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
glosses: To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
examples: text: I have seen them shiver and look pale,
Make periods in the midst of sentences,
Throttle their practised accent in their fears.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
Derived terms: throttle down
throttle up
shock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɒk/
ipa: /ʃɔk/
ipa: /ʃɑk/
homophone: shark (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: choque
Etymology: From Middle Dutch schokken (“to push, jolt, shake, jerk”) or Middle French choquer (“to collide with, clash”), from Old Dutch *skokkan (“to shake up and down, shog”), from Proto-Germanic *skukkaną (“to move, shake, tremble”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to shake, stir”); see shake.
Cognate with Middle Low German schocken (“collide with, deliver a blow to, move back and forth”), Old High German scoc (“a jolt, swing”), Middle High German schocken (“to swing”) (German schaukeln), Old Norse skykkr (“vibration, surging motion”), Icelandic skykkjun (“tremulously”), Middle English schiggen (“to shake”). Doublet of shog.
Senses: examples: text: His shock announcement rocked the tennis world.
glosses: Causing intense surprise, horror, etc.; unexpected and shocking.
shock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɒk/
ipa: /ʃɔk/
ipa: /ʃɑk/
homophone: shark (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: shocks
form: shocking
form: shocked
form: shocked
form: choque
Etymology: From Middle Dutch schokken (“to push, jolt, shake, jerk”) or Middle French choquer (“to collide with, clash”), from Old Dutch *skokkan (“to shake up and down, shog”), from Proto-Germanic *skukkaną (“to move, shake, tremble”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to shake, stir”); see shake.
Cognate with Middle Low German schocken (“collide with, deliver a blow to, move back and forth”), Old High German scoc (“a jolt, swing”), Middle High German schocken (“to swing”) (German schaukeln), Old Norse skykkr (“vibration, surging motion”), Icelandic skykkjun (“tremulously”), Middle English schiggen (“to shake”). Doublet of shog.
Senses: examples: text: The disaster shocked the world.
synonyms: shatter
glosses: To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.
glosses: To give an electric shock to.
examples: text: Ammonium nitrate can detonate if severely shocked.
glosses: To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.
examples: text: They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together.
ref: 1832, Thomas De Quincey, Klosterheim Or, the Masque:
glosses: To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter.
glosses: To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.
examples: text: It takes more than two gigapascals (two billion pascals) of pressure to shock quartz in this manner (for comparison, the atmosphere at sea level exerts a little over 100,000 pascals of pressure).
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 44:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To deform the crystal structure of a stone by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature, as produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.
shock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɒk/
ipa: /ʃɔk/
ipa: /ʃɑk/
homophone: shark (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: shocks
form: choque
Etymology: Variant of shag.
Senses: examples: text: Cause it on shocks to be by and by set.
ref: 1557, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry:
text: Behind the Master walks, builds up the Shocks.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.
topics: business
commerce
glosses: A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
examples: text: His head boasted a shock of sandy hair.
text: Every now and then I’m startled at how good-looking John is, but he glared at me from under the shock of hair that fell across his brow and scared me a little.
ref: 1968 October 12, Paul Zindel, chapter 12, in The Pigman:
text: On day three I pointed at the edge of an intricate pentagram peeking above her shock of oily black hair.
ref: 2019, Hal Y. Zhang, Hard Mother, Spider Mother, Soft Mother, Brooklyn, NY: Radix Media, →ISBN, page 2:
synonyms: mop
glosses: A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.
examples: text: When I read of witty persons, I could not figure them but like the little shock. (translating the German Spitz)
ref: 1827, Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert:
glosses: A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
shock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɒk/
ipa: /ʃɔk/
ipa: /ʃɑk/
homophone: shark (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: shocks
form: shocking
form: shocked
form: shocked
form: choque
Etymology: Variant of shag.
Senses: examples: text: to shock rye
glosses: To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
screwdriver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹuˌdɹaɪvɚ/
Forms: form: screwdrivers
Etymology: Compound of screw + driver.
Senses: synonyms: turnscrew
hypernyms: driver#Noun
<
tool#Noun
coordinate_terms: nutdriver
glosses: A hand tool or power tool which engages with the head of a screw and allows torque to be applied to turn the screw, thus driving it in or loosening it.
examples: text: Celestial asked for a screwdriver and the bartender poured a good four fingers of Smirnoff into a flimsy cup before opening a can of juice.
ref: 2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 154:
glosses: A cocktail made of vodka and orange juice.
Derived terms: flat-blade screwdriver
flathead screwdriver
Phillips screwdriver
Yankee screwdriver
nut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nŭt
ipa: /nʌt/
ipa: [nɐt]
ipa: /nʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: nuts
form: nutting
form: nutted
form: nutted
form: nut
form: nut
Etymology: From Middle English nute, note, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”), from a root *knu- possibly shared with Proto-Celtic *knūs and Latin nux (“nut”). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European (substrate) origin.
See also West Frisian nút, Dutch noot, German Nuss, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, Norwegian nøtt.
Senses: examples: text: I will no more a-nutting go ; That journey caused all this woe.
ref: 1575, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Five anonymous plays, Early English Dramatists, volume Fourth Series, London: William How for Richard Ihones, page 171:
text: […] the huge country fellow […] leapt forth from the underwood, exclaiming "That is not allowed, gentlemen! That is not allowed! Nobody is allowed to nut here; I must take your names to Sir John!"
ref: 1847, Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress:
text: We are going a-nutting.
ref: 1978, Edwin Way Teale, A walk through the year, Dodd, Mead, →ISBN, page 238:
glosses: To gather nuts.
raw_tags: in the form "nutting"
examples: text: One night, we were fumbling each other out by the toilets when a Rocker in full leathers came out of the Gents and, without breaking stride or saying a word, nutted me square between the eyes. I went down as though shot...
ref: 1999, Nik Cohn, Yes we have no: adventures in the other England:
synonyms: butt
Glasgow kiss
Liverpool kiss
loaf
glosses: To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
examples: text: I got a bitch that suck my dick 'til I nut
ref: 1996, “Bust a Nut”, performed by Uncle Luke featuring The Notorious B.I.G.:
text: Isis rode my mug like she was on a ten-inch dick, and as soon as she nutted I tossed her ass off a me and flipped her on her back, then fucked the shit outta her cause it was payback time.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 152:
synonyms: word: blow a nut
word: bust a nut
word: blow one's load
word: blow one's wad
word: blow a nut
word: breed
word: bust
word: bust a nut
word: come
word: cream
word: cum
word: ejaculate
word: explode
word: get off
word: go off
word: jizz
word: juice
word: nut
word: pop
word: shoot a rope
word: shoot off
word: shoot one's load
word: shoot one's wad
word: skeet
word: spray one's shorts
word: sprog
word: spoof
word: splooge
word: spooge
word: spunk
word: spurt
glosses: To orgasm; to ejaculate.
glosses: To hit in the testicles.
glosses: To defeat thoroughly.
Related terms: do one's nut
nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nŭt
ipa: /nʌt/
ipa: [nɐt]
ipa: /nʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: nuts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).
Synonyms: word: nut
Hypernyms: word: food
Hyponyms: word: Spanish chestnut
word: acorn
word: almond
word: beer nut
word: betel nut
word: brazil nut
word: cashew
word: cashew nut
word: chestnut
word: cobnut
word: coconut
word: conker
word: earthnut
word: goober
word: gooranut
word: groundnut
word: hazel
word: hazelnut
word: macadamia
word: macadamia nut
word: peanut
word: pecan
word: pine nut
word: pistachio
word: tagua nut
word: walnut
word: blanched almond
word: marron glacé
Related terms: word: :Category:Nuts
word: Nut (fruit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
nut
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: nŭt
ipa: /nʌt/
ipa: [nɐt]
ipa: /nʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Etymology: Variant of not.
Senses: examples: text: Did you like them boys? I goes.
Nut. She shook her hair.
Neither?
Nut. Right townies.
ref: 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 26:
glosses: No.
glow plug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glow plugs
form: glowplug
Senses: glosses: A device in a diesel engine that heats the combustion chamber to help ignition.
drill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: drĭl
ipa: /dɹɪl/
ipa: [dɹɪɫ]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: drills
Etymology: Perhaps the same as Etymology 3; compare German Rille which can also mean "small furrow".
Senses: examples: text: I found down at the side of the house the remains of what must have once been a kitchen garden. Everything was choked with weeds and scutch grass, but the outlines of bed and drill were still there.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
glosses: An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
glosses: A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
glosses: A row of seed sown in a furrow.
Derived terms: drill barrow
drill harrow
drill plough
drill plow
drill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: drĭl
ipa: /dɹɪl/
ipa: [dɹɪɫ]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: drills
form: drilling
form: drilled
form: drilled
Etymology: Perhaps the same as Etymology 3; compare German Rille which can also mean "small furrow".
Senses: glosses: To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
drill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: drĭl
ipa: /dɹɪl/
ipa: [dɹɪɫ]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: drills
Etymology: Uncertain. Compare the same sense of trill, and German trillen, drillen. Attestation predates Etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills.
ref: c. 1635, George Sandys
glosses: A small trickling stream; a rill.
drill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: drĭl
ipa: /dɹɪl/
ipa: [dɹɪɫ]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: drills
form: drilling
form: drilled
form: drilled
Etymology: Uncertain. Compare the same sense of trill, and German trillen, drillen. Attestation predates Etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: waters drilled through a sandy stratum
text: Now it is a great square profunditie ; greene , and uneven at the bottome : into which a barren spring doch drill from betweene the stones of the North - ward wall
ref: 1615, George Sandys, “(please specify the page)”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC:
glosses: To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
drill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: drĭl
ipa: /dɹɪl/
ipa: [dɹɪɫ]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: drills
form: drilling
form: drilled
form: drilled
Etymology: From Middle English drillen (“to delay, defer, put off”), of origin unknown.
Senses: examples: text: Quit purposely drilling out the time hoping that someone else will do your chores.
glosses: To protract, lengthen out; fritter away, spend (time) aimlessly.
examples: text: He tells me with great passion that she has bubbled him out of his youth; that she drilled him on to five and fifty [years old], and that he verily believes she will drop him in his old age, if she can find her account in another.
ref: 1711 June 12, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, number 89; republished in The Works of Joseph Addison, volume 1, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842, page 142:
synonyms: entice
lead on
lure
glosses: To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.
examples: August 28, 1731, letter by Jonathan Swift to John Gay and Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry
This cursed accident hath drilled away the whole summer.
glosses: To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
drill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: drĭl
ipa: /dɹɪl/
ipa: [dɹɪɫ]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: drills
Etymology: ]
Source unknown. Probably of African origin; compare mandrill.
Senses: glosses: An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
drill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: drĭl
ipa: /dɹɪl/
ipa: [dɹɪɫ]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: drills
Etymology: From German Drillich (“denim, canvas, drill”).
Senses: glosses: A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
Synonyms: chino
Derived terms: khaki drill
KD
crankshaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crankshafts
form: crank shaft
Etymology: From crank + shaft.
Senses: hypernyms: shaft#Noun
<
component#Noun
part#Noun
related: word: conrod
word: connecting rod
word: crankcase
word: transaxle
coordinate_terms: camshaft
glosses: A rotating shaft with throws (parts that stick out) and which drives, is driven by (cranked by), or functions as a crank.
Derived terms: crankwalk
Related terms: camshaft
crankshaft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crankshafts
form: crankshafting
form: crankshafted
form: crankshafted
form: crank shaft
Etymology: From crank + shaft.
Senses: examples: text: The attachment of the inboard end of the gear beam was damaged but remained intact; the drag strut fuse pin had 'crankshafted' in a direction indicating that a load had been applied in tension but this had also remained intact.
ref: 2010 February 9, Air Accidents Investigation Branch, “1.12.3.3 Landing gear examination”, in Report on the accident to Boeing 777-236ER, G-YMMM, at London Heathrow Airport on 17 January 2008, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022, page 44:
glosses: To deform in such a manner that part of the rod or bolt is displaced sideways, offset from the longitudinal axis of the part, but remains parallel with the part's main longitudinal axis, with the final shape somewhat resembling a crankshaft.
raw_tags: of a straight bolt or rod