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Hack

A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.

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Author 76% connected

The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.

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Auto 76% connected

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Car 76% connected

A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.

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Contend 76% connected

To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

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Cope 76% connected

A covering for the head.

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Cough 76% connected

To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.

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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Deal 76% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Edit 76% connected

To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to e…

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Foul 76% connected

A bird.

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Grapple 76% connected

To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist.

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Horse 76% connected

A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period.…

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Machine 76% connected

In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmi…

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Manage 76% connected

The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.

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Mount 76% connected

A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always ins…

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Politician 76% connected

One versed or experienced in the science of government; one devoted to politics; a statesman.

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Program 76% connected

Same as Programme.

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Programme 76% connected

That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order…

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Redact 76% connected

To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.

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Tool 76% connected

An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by…

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Writer 76% connected

One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.

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Manner of action 2

Ax 76% connected

Alt. of Axe

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Axe 76% connected

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wield…

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Narrower term 1

Plodder 76% connected

One who plods; a drudge.

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Hacker 74% connected

One who, or that which, hacks. Specifically: A cutting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine…

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Hacker 74% connected

One who, or that which, hacks. Specifically: A cutting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine…

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Labour 74% connected

productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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Labour 74% connected

productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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Containing group 1

Fleet 70% connected

To sail; to float.

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Synonym 9

Cab 92% connected

A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.

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Chop 92% connected

To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.

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Cut 92% connected

of Cut

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Drudge 92% connected

To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.

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Hacker 92% connected

One who, or that which, hacks. Specifically: A cutting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine…

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Jade 92% connected

A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamenta…

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Nag 92% connected

A small horse; a pony; hence, any horse.

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Plug 92% connected

Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.

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Whoop 92% connected

The hoopoe.

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