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Buffet

A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.

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Bar 76% connected

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especi…

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Furniture 76% connected

That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.

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Hit 76% connected

It.

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Meal 76% connected

A part; a fragment; a portion.

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Repast 76% connected

The act of taking food.

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Strike 76% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Cellaret 76% connected

A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and u…

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Commissary 76% connected

One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.

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Credence 76% connected

Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence.

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Drawer 70% connected

One who, or that which, draws

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Shelf 70% connected

A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.

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Batter 92% connected

To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Buff 92% connected

A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed i…

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Counter 92% connected

A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.

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Sideboard 92% connected

A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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