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Aim
verb · 78% connection
To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
Arrow
noun · 78% connection
A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
Ball
verb · 78% connection
To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
Ballot
noun · 78% connection
The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
Billiards
noun · 78% connection
A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
Boomerang
noun · 78% connection
A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
Bow
verb · 78% connection
A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
Carom
noun · 78% connection
A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
Chamois
noun · 78% connection
A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; -- called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leathe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
Charge
verb · 78% connection
A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
Cramp
noun · 78% connection
A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
Dart
noun · 78% connection
A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
End
verb · 78% connection
To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
Fringe
noun · 78% connection
An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
Grapeshot
noun · 78% connection
A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
Gun
noun · 78% connection
A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
Hematite
noun · 78% connection
An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral cryst…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
Iron
noun · 78% connection
The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, consisting, balls, stone.
