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Crib

A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.

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Bin 76% connected

A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.

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Cheat 76% connected

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

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Chisel 76% connected

A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a m…

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Garner 76% connected

A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

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Granary 76% connected

A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (Fig.), a region fertile in grain.

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Lift 76% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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Line 76% connected

Flax; linen.

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Plagiarize 76% connected

To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

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Rendering 76% connected

of Render

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Translation 76% connected

The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the transla…

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Version 76% connected

A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning.

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Narrower term 1

Corncrib 76% connected

A crib for storing corn.

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Pony 74% connected

A small horse.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Pony 74% connected

A small horse.

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Containing whole 1

Cribbage 70% connected

A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances.

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Synonym 4

Cot 92% connected

A small house; a cottage or hut.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cribbage 92% connected

A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pony 92% connected

A small horse.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Trot 92% connected

To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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