| littleneck | (noun) a young quahog | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
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| (noun) a quahog when young and small; usually eaten raw; an important food popular in New York | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
| littleness | (noun) the property of having a relatively small size | Synonyms: smallness |
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| (noun) lack of generosity in trifling matters | Synonyms: pettiness, smallness |
| (noun) the property of having relatively little strength or vigor | Synonyms: smallness |
| mantle | (noun) a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter | Synonyms: cape |
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| (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: curtain, drape, drapery, pall |
| (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantel, mantelpiece, mantlepiece |
| (noun) (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell | Synonyms: pallium |
| (noun) the cloak as a symbol of authority | - |
| (noun) the layer of the earth between the crust and the core | - |
| (noun) anything that covers | Synonyms: blanket |
| mantlepiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantel, mantelpiece, mantle |
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| mantlet | (noun) portable bulletproof shelter | Synonyms: mantelet |
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| mettle | (noun) the courage to carry on | Synonyms: heart, nerve, spunk |
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| mettlesomeness | (noun) courageous high-spiritedness | - |
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| mistletoe | (noun) Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas | Synonyms: Old World mistletoe, Viscum album |
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| (noun) American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe | Synonyms: false mistletoe |
| (noun) shrub of central and southeastern Europe; partially parasitic on beeches, chestnuts and oaks | Synonyms: Loranthus europaeus |
| motley | (noun) a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England | - |
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| (noun) a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume) | - |
| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| mottle | (noun) an irregular arrangement of patches of color | - |
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| myrtle | (noun) any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Myrtus | - |
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| (noun) widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers | Synonyms: Vinca minor |
| nestle | (noun) a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace | Synonyms: cuddle, snuggle |
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| nettle | (noun) any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae) | - |
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| nutlet | (noun) a small nut | - |
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| ostler | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, hostler, stableboy, stableman |
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| outlet | (noun) activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | Synonyms: release, vent |
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| (noun) an opening that permits escape or release | Synonyms: exit, issue, way out |
| (noun) a place of business for retailing goods | Synonyms: mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet |
| (noun) receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices | Synonyms: electric outlet, electric receptacle, electrical outlet, wall plug, wall socket |
| pennywhistle | (noun) an inexpensive fipple flute | Synonyms: tin whistle, whistle |
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| pestle | (noun) a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar | - |
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| (noun) a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone | Synonyms: muller, pounder |
| (noun) machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores | Synonyms: stamp |
| pintle | (noun) a pin or bolt forming the pivot of a hinge | - |
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| plantlet | (noun) a young plant or a small plant | - |
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| pointlessness | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, senselessness, vacuity |
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| pottle | (noun) a pot that holds 2 quarts | - |
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| prattle | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: blether, chin music, idle talk, prate |
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| prattler | (noun) someone who speaks in a childish way | - |
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| rattle | (noun) loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail | - |
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| (noun) a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken | - |
| (noun) a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders) | Synonyms: rale, rattling |
| rattlebox | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops | Synonyms: crotalaria |
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| rattler | (noun) pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken | Synonyms: rattlesnake |
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| (noun) a railroad train consisting of freight cars | Synonyms: freight train |
| rattlesnake | (noun) pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken | Synonyms: rattler |
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| relentlessness | (noun) mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up | Synonyms: inexorability, inexorableness |
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| resettlement | (noun) the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) | Synonyms: relocation |
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| restlessness | (noun) inability to rest or relax or be still | Synonyms: queasiness, uneasiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active | - |
| (noun) a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion | Synonyms: fidget, fidgetiness |
| (noun) a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay | Synonyms: impatience |
| rootlet | (noun) small root or division of a root | - |
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| rustle | (noun) a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind | Synonyms: rustling, whisper, whispering |
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| rustler | (noun) someone who steals livestock (especially cattle) | Synonyms: cattle thief |
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| scuttle | (noun) container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire | Synonyms: coal scuttle |
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| (noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: hatchway, opening |
| scuttlebutt | (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, gossip |
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| settle | (noun) a long wooden bench with a back | Synonyms: settee |
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| settledness | (noun) The quality or state of being fixed, permanent or stationary; established. | - |
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| settlement | (noun) termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities | Synonyms: liquidation |
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| (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonisation, colonization |
| (noun) something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making | Synonyms: closure, resolution |
| (noun) a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it | - |
| (noun) a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government | Synonyms: colony |
| (noun) a community of people smaller than a town | Synonyms: small town, village |
| (noun) an area where a group of families live together | - |
| settler | (noun) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | Synonyms: colonist |
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| (noun) a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings | - |
| (noun) a negotiator who settles disputes | - |
| shiftlessness | (noun) a failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition | - |
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| shuttle | (noun) bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads | - |
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| (noun) public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that flies back and forth between two points | - |
| (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, birdie, shuttlecock |
| shuttlecock | (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, birdie, shuttle |
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| sightlessness | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: blindness, cecity |
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| skittle | (noun) a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles | Synonyms: ninepin, skittle pin |
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| skittles | (noun) a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins | Synonyms: ninepins |
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| spiritlessness | (noun) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | Synonyms: apathy, indifference, numbness |
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| spittle | (noun) a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches | Synonyms: saliva, spit |
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| spittlebug | (noun) small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete | Synonyms: spittle insect |
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| spotlessness | (noun) the state of being spotlessly clean | Synonyms: immaculateness |
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| startle | (noun) a sudden involuntary movement | Synonyms: jump, start |
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| subtitle | (noun) secondary or explanatory title | - |
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| (noun) translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen | Synonyms: caption |
| subtlety | (noun) the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze | Synonyms: niceness |
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| (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, nuance, refinement, shade |
| supertitle | (noun) translation of the words of a foreign opera (or choral work) projected on a screen above the stage | Synonyms: surtitle |
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| surtitle | (noun) translation of the words of a foreign opera (or choral work) projected on a screen above the stage | Synonyms: supertitle |
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| sutler | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: provisioner, victualer, victualler |
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| sweetleaf | (noun) small yellowwood tree of southern United States having small fragrant white flowers; leaves and bark yield a yellow dye | Synonyms: Symplocus tinctoria |
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| swiftlet | (noun) swift of eastern Asia; produces the edible bird's nest | Synonyms: Collocalia inexpectata |
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| tactlessness | (noun) the quality of lacking tact | - |
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| talentlessness | (noun) a lack of talent | - |
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| tartlet | (noun) a small tart usually used as a canape | - |
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| tattle | (noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: singing, telling |
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| tattler | (noun) any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry | - |
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| (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattletale, telltale |
| tattletale | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, telltale |
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| teakettle | (noun) kettle for boiling water to make tea | - |
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| thistle | (noun) any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves | - |
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| thistledown | (noun) pappus of a thistle consisting of silky featherlike hairs attached to the seed-like fruit of a thistle | - |
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| thoughtlessness | (noun) the trait of not thinking carefully before acting | Synonyms: unthoughtfulness |
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| (noun) the quality of failing to be considerate of others | Synonyms: inconsiderateness, inconsideration |
| thriftlessness | (noun) the trait of wasting resources | Synonyms: waste, wastefulness |
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| throstle | (noun) common Old World thrush noted for its song | Synonyms: mavis, song thrush, Turdus philomelos |
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| (noun) a spinning machine formerly used to twist and wind fibers of cotton or wool continuously | - |
| throttle | (noun) a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine | Synonyms: accelerator, throttle valve |
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| (noun) a pedal that controls the throttle valve | Synonyms: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, gun |
| throttlehold | (noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: chokehold, stranglehold |
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| throttler | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, garrotter, strangler |
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| title | (noun) an established or recognized right | Synonyms: claim |
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| (noun) an informal right to something | Synonyms: claim |
| (noun) the name of a work of art or literary composition etc. | - |
| (noun) a general or descriptive heading for a section of a written work | - |
| (noun) an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. `Mr.' or `General' | Synonyms: form of address, title of respect |
| (noun) an appellation signifying nobility | - |
| (noun) a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it | Synonyms: deed, deed of conveyance |
| (noun) a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with | Synonyms: rubric, statute title |
| (noun) (usually plural) written material introduced into a movie or TV show to give credits or represent dialogue or explain an action | - |
| (noun) the status of being a champion | Synonyms: championship |
| tittle | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, whit |
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| tootle | (noun) the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument | - |
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| trestle | (noun) sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop | - |
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| (noun) a supporting tower used to support a bridge | - |
| trestlework | (noun) a supporting structure composed of a system of connected trestles; for a bridge or pier or scaffold e.g. | - |
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| turtle | (noun) any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming | - |
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| (noun) a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar | Synonyms: polo-neck, turtleneck |
| turtledove | (noun) any of several Old World wild doves | - |
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| (noun) small Australian dove | Synonyms: Australian turtledove, Stictopelia cuneata |
| turtlehead | (noun) showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple | Synonyms: Chelone glabra, shell-flower, shellflower, snake-head, snakehead |
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| turtleneck | (noun) a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar | Synonyms: polo-neck, turtle |
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| turtler | (noun) someone whose occupation is hunting turtles | - |
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| velvetleaf | (noun) tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States | Synonyms: Abutilon theophrasti, butter-print, China jute, Indian mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetweed |
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| (noun) arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers; southwestern United States | Synonyms: Lavatera arborea, tree mallow, velvet-leaf |
| wattle | (noun) framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence | - |
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| (noun) a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards | Synonyms: lappet |
| (noun) any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle | - |
| weightlessness | (noun) the property of being comparatively small in weight | Synonyms: lightness |
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| whistle | (noun) an inexpensive fipple flute | Synonyms: pennywhistle, tin whistle |
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| (noun) acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound | - |
| (noun) a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it | - |
| (noun) the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle | Synonyms: whistling |
| (noun) the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture | Synonyms: whistling |
| whistleblower | (noun) an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it | Synonyms: whistle-blower, whistle blower |
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| whistler | (noun) Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call | Synonyms: thickhead |
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| (noun) large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions | Synonyms: Bucephela clangula, goldeneye |
| (noun) large North American mountain marmot | Synonyms: hoary marmot, Marmota caligata, whistling marmot |
| (noun) someone who makes a loud high sound | - |
| whittler | (noun) someone who whittles (usually as an idle pastime) | - |
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| whortleberry | (noun) blue-black berries similar to American blueberries | Synonyms: bilberry, European blueberry |
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| (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry |
| wrestle | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestling |
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| wrestler | (noun) combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground | Synonyms: grappler, matman |
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| wristlet | (noun) a band or bracelet worn around the wrist | Synonyms: wrist band |
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