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Hammerhead

A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish.

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Dolt 76% connected

A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.

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Dullard 76% connected

A stupid person; a dunce.

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Head 76% 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 0% interchangeable

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Shark 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.

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Stupe 76% connected

Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.

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Stupid 76% connected

Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons.

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Shovelhead 76% connected

A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark.

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Containing whole 1

Hammer 70% connected

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

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Component part 1

Peen 70% connected

A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.

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Blockhead 92% connected

A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dunce 92% connected

One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dunderhead 92% connected

A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Loggerhead 92% connected

A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Numskull 92% connected

A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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