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Gad

The point of a spear, or an arrowhead.

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Cast 76% connected

of Cast

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Drift 76% connected

A driving; a violent movement.

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Goad 76% connected

A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.

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Prod 76% connected

A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ramble 76% connected

To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ra…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Range 76% connected

To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

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Roam 76% connected

To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.

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Roll 76% connected

To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

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Rove 76% connected

of Reeve

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Stray 76% connected

To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

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Swan 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and stro…

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Tramp 76% connected

To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

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Vagabond 76% connected

Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.

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Wander 76% connected

To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fi…

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Spur 74% connected

A sparrow.

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Spur 74% connected

A sparrow.

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Containing whole 1

Boot 70% connected

Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.

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Component part 1

Rowel 70% connected

The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points.

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Synonym 2

Gallivant 92% connected

To play the beau; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Spur 92% connected

A sparrow.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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