| awl | (noun) a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes | - |
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| bradawl | (noun) an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws | Synonyms: pricker |
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| brawl | (noun) a noisy fight in a crowd | Synonyms: free-for-all |
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| (noun) an uproarious party | Synonyms: bash, do |
| crawl | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawling, creep, creeping |
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| (noun) a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick | Synonyms: Australian crawl, front crawl |
| (noun) a very slow movement | - |
| drawl | (noun) a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels | - |
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| pawl | (noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: click, detent, dog |
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| scrawl | (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: cacography, scratch, scribble |
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| shawl | (noun) cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders | - |
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| spawl | (noun) a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge | Synonyms: spall |
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| sprawl | (noun) an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about | Synonyms: sprawling |
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| (noun) an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities | Synonyms: conurbation, urban sprawl |
| trawl | (noun) a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths | Synonyms: dragnet, trawl net |
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| (noun) a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) | Synonyms: setline, spiller, trawl line, trotline |
| yawl | (noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost | Synonyms: dandy |
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| (noun) a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars) | - |