airbrake | (noun) a vehicular brake that operates by compressed air; especially for heavy vehicles | - |
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(noun) a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft | Synonyms: dive brake |
anorak | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: parka, windbreaker, windcheater |
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arak | (noun) any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses | Synonyms: arrack |
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astrakhan | (noun) the fur of young lambs | - |
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brake | (noun) a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle | - |
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(noun) anything that slows or hinders a process | - |
(noun) an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant | - |
(noun) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: bracken, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum |
(noun) any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants | - |
brakeman | (noun) a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes | - |
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brakes | (noun) a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle | Synonyms: brake system |
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canebrake | (noun) a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane) | - |
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corakan | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, coracan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee, ragi |
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corncrake | (noun) common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields | Synonyms: Crex crex, land rail |
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crake | (noun) any of several short-billed Old World rails | - |
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drake | (noun) adult male of a wild or domestic duck | - |
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firedrake | (noun) a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings | Synonyms: dragon, European dragon |
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harakiri | (noun) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society | Synonyms: hara-kiri, harikari, seppuku |
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karakul | (noun) hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | Synonyms: broadtail, caracul |
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kurakkan | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, coracan, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, ragee, ragi |
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mandrake | (noun) a plant of southern Europe and North Africa having purple flowers, yellow fruits and a forked root formerly thought to have magical powers | Synonyms: devil's apples, Mandragora officinarum |
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(noun) the root of the mandrake plant; used medicinally or as a narcotic | Synonyms: mandrake root |
muckraker | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: mudslinger |
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muckraking | (noun) the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures) | - |
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parakeet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet |
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parrakeet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parroket, parroquet |
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rake | (noun) a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil | - |
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(noun) degree of deviation from a horizontal plane | Synonyms: pitch, slant |
(noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rakehell, rip, roue |
rakehell | (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rake, rip, roue |
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rakishness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, jauntiness, nattiness |
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(noun) the quality of a rake | - |
sheldrake | (noun) Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill | - |
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(noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, merganser, sawbill |
strake | (noun) thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship | Synonyms: wale |
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turakoo | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: touraco, turaco, turacou |
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zamboorak | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamburak, zamburek, zumbooruck, zumbooruk |
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zamburak | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburek, zumbooruck, zumbooruk |
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