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The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.

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Verb group 10

Draw 84% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Draw 84% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Lead 84% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Lead 84% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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String 84% connected

A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larg…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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String 84% connected

A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larg…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Thread 84% connected

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or mo…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Thread 84% connected

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or mo…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 19

Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Command 76% connected

To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.

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Construction 76% connected

The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Control 76% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Direct 76% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Enchiridion 76% connected

Handbook; a manual of devotions.

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Escort 76% connected

A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Example 76% connected

One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.

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Expert 76% connected

Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice;…

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Handbook 76% connected

A book of reference, to be carried in the hand; a manual; a guidebook.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Leader 76% connected

One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.

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Model 76% connected

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Orient 76% connected

Rising, as the sun.

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Orientate 76% connected

To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Structure 76% connected

The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Vade mecum 76% connected

A book or other thing that a person carries with him as a constant companion; a manual; a handbook.

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Manner of action 21

Beacon 76% connected

A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Channel 76% connected

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Conn 76% connected

See Con, to direct a ship.

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Corner 76% connected

The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

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Crab 76% connected

One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen i…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Dock 76% connected

A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.

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Hand 76% connected

That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

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Helm 76% connected

See Haulm, straw.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Misdirect 76% connected

To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Misguide 76% connected

To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Mislead 76% connected

To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Navigate 76% connected

To joirney by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or commu…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Park 76% connected

A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pilot 76% connected

One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rub 76% connected

To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sheer 76% connected

Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Show 76% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Starboard 76% connected

That side of a vessel which is on the right hand of a person who stands on board facing the bow; -- opposed to larboard, or port.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Thread 76% connected

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or mo…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tree 76% connected

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Usher 76% connected

An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strang…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Narrower term 3

Cicerone 76% connected

One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Itinerary 76% connected

Itinerant; traveling; passing from place to place; done on a journey.

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Rhythm 76% connected

In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effec…

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Derivationally related 10

Guidance 74% connected

The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Guidance 74% connected

The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Manoeuvre 74% connected

Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Manoeuvre 74% connected

Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Reconnoitre 74% connected

To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Reconnoitre 74% connected

To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Scout 74% connected

A swift sailing boat.

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Scout 74% connected

A swift sailing boat.

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Show 74% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Show 74% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 18

Conduct 92% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Direct 92% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Draw 92% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Guidebook 92% connected

A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Head 92% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lead 92% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Maneuver 92% connected

Alt. of Manoeuvre

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Manoeuvre 92% connected

Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pass 92% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pathfinder 92% connected

One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Point 92% connected

To appoint.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Run 92% connected

of Run

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scout 92% connected

A swift sailing boat.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Steer 92% connected

A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Template 92% connected

Same as Templet.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Templet 92% connected

A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's t…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Usher 92% connected

An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strang…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Near synonym 1

Help 82% connected

To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…

general 58% interchangeable

Guide overlaps with help, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Professional alternative 1

Help 84% connected

To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…

professional alternatives to help 55% interchangeable

Use when providing direction or expertise.

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