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Arm
noun · 78% connection
The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
Backwater
noun · 78% connection
Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
Barricade
noun · 78% connection
A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
Branch
noun · 78% connection
A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
By-street
noun · 78% connection
A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
Catch
verb · 78% connection
To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
Catchdrain
noun · 78% connection
A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
Cesspool
noun · 78% connection
A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
Cloaca
noun · 78% connection
A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
Crypt
noun · 78% connection
A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chap…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
Descend
verb · 78% connection
To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
Detent
noun · 78% connection
That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
Door
noun · 78% connection
An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
Drain
verb · 78% connection
To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
Entrap
verb · 78% connection
To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or inv…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
Flush
verb · 78% connection
To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
Hawk
noun · 78% connection
One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the promi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
Hook
noun · 78% connection
A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cistern, vault, point, street, gutter.
