A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
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To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.
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A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
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Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.
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A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
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An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the…
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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
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To change the place of in any manner; to move.
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To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in…
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A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of…
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To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate…
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One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
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The corner, or angle, of a figure.
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A small fishing boat.
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To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.
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A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax,…
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To beat or flog soundly.
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To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.
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To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.
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To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age.
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To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to tod…
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