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Acicular
adjective · 78% connection
Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
Alarmist
noun · 78% connection
One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
Anchor
noun · 78% connection
Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
Battology
noun · 78% connection
A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
Blenny
noun · 78% connection
small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
Bobbin
noun · 78% connection
A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a se…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
Bolt
noun · 78% connection
A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
Bugbear
noun · 78% connection
Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, somet…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
Butcher
noun · 78% connection
A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
Clue
noun · 78% connection
A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
Comb
verb · 78% connection
To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. See un…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
Darn
verb · 78% connection
To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
Ditty-bag
noun · 78% connection
A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
Electro-puncture
noun · 78% connection
An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
Grapnel
noun · 78% connection
A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
Hairsplitter
noun · 78% connection
One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
Loop
noun · 78% connection
A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hook…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
Needless
adjective · 78% connection
Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, hold, sailor, thread, needless.
