| handle | (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: grip, handgrip, hold |
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| (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, plow, treat |
| (verb) touch, lift, or hold with the hands | Synonyms: palm |
| (verb) handle effectively | Synonyms: manage, wield |
| (verb) show and train | - |
| (verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, deal, manage |
| (verb) interact in a certain way | Synonyms: do by, treat |
| handlebar | (noun) the shaped bar used to steer a bicycle | - |
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| handled | (adjective) having a usually specified type of handle | - |
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| handleless | (adjective) having no handle | - |
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| handler | (noun) (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team | Synonyms: coach, manager |
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| (noun) one who trains or exhibits animals | Synonyms: animal trainer |
| (noun) an agent who handles something or someone | - |
| handless | (adjective) without a hand or hands | - |
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| (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, left-handed |
| headless | (adjective) not having a head or formed without a head | - |
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| (adjective) not using intelligence | Synonyms: brainless |
| heedless | (adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention | Synonyms: unheeding |
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| (adjective) characterized by careless unconcern | Synonyms: reckless |
| heedlessly | (adverb) without care or concern | Synonyms: carelessly |
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| heedlessness | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities | Synonyms: inadvertence, inadvertency, unmindfulness |
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| (noun) the trait of acting rashly and without prudence | Synonyms: mindlessness, rashness |
| (noun) a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: inattentiveness |
| huddle | (noun) (informal) a quick private conference | Synonyms: powwow |
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| (noun) a disorganized and densely packed crowd | - |
| (verb) crouch or curl up | Synonyms: cower |
| (verb) crowd or draw together | Synonyms: huddle together |
| huddled | (adjective) crowded or massed together | - |
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| huddler | (noun) a member of a huddle | - |
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| (noun) a person who crouches | - |
| hurdle | (noun) the act of jumping over an obstacle | Synonyms: vault |
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| (noun) a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races | - |
| (noun) an obstacle that you are expected to overcome | - |
| (verb) jump a hurdle | - |
| hurdler | (noun) an athlete who runs the hurdles | - |
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| hurdles | (noun) a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles | Synonyms: hurdle race, hurdling |
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| idle | (adjective) not in action or at work | - |
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| (adjective) silly or trivial | Synonyms: light |
| (adjective) not in active use | Synonyms: unused |
| (adjective) lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility | Synonyms: loose |
| (adjective) not having a job | Synonyms: jobless, out of work |
| (adjective) not yielding a return | Synonyms: dead |
| (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, groundless, unfounded, unwarranted, wild |
| (noun) the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling | - |
| (verb) run disconnected or idle | Synonyms: tick over |
| (verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation | Synonyms: laze, slug, stagnate |
| idleness | (noun) having no employment | Synonyms: idling, loafing |
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| (noun) the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work | Synonyms: faineance |
| (noun) the quality of lacking substance or value | Synonyms: groundlessness |
| idler | (noun) person who does no work | Synonyms: bum, do-nothing, layabout, loafer |
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| irregardless | (adverb) regardless; a combination of irrespective and regardless sometimes used humorously | - |
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| kindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, provoke, raise |
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| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, inflame |
| (verb) catch fire | Synonyms: inflame |
| kindled | (adjective) set afire | Synonyms: enkindled, ignited |
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| ladle | (noun) a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another | - |
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| (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: lade, laden |
| (verb) put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle | - |
| landler | (noun) a moderately slow Austrian country dance in triple time; involves spinning and clapping | - |
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| (noun) music in triple time for dancing the landler | - |
| landless | (adjective) owning no land | - |
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| leadless | (adjective) not treated with lead | Synonyms: unleaded |
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| lidless | (adjective) not having or covered with a lid or lids | - |
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| (adjective) always watchful | Synonyms: sleepless |
| (adjective) having no lid | - |
| lordless | (adjective) having no lord or master | Synonyms: masterless |
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| manhandle | (verb) handle roughly | - |
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| meddle | (verb) intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly | Synonyms: tamper |
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| meddler | (noun) an officious annoying person who interferes with others | - |
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| meddlesome | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddling, officious |
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| meddlesomeness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: intrusiveness, officiousness |
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| medley | (noun) a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources | Synonyms: pastiche, potpourri |
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| middle | (adjective) between an earlier and a later period of time | - |
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| (adjective) of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages | - |
| (adjective) being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series | Synonyms: in-between, mediate |
| (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, centre, halfway, midway |
| (noun) the middle area of the human torso (usually in front) | Synonyms: midriff, midsection |
| (noun) an intermediate part or section | - |
| (noun) an area that is approximately central within some larger region | Synonyms: center, centre, eye, heart |
| (noun) the point between the beginning and the end of a temporal period or process | - |
| (verb) put in the middle | - |
| middlebreaker | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister, lister plough, lister plow, middle buster |
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| middlebrow | (noun) someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow | - |
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| middleman | (noun) a person who is in a position to give you special assistance | Synonyms: contact |
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| (noun) someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers | Synonyms: jobber, wholesaler |
| (noun) the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk | Synonyms: interlocutor |
| middlemost | (adjective) being in the exact middle | Synonyms: midmost |
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| middleweight | (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds | - |
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| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds | - |
| mindless | (adjective) not mindful or attentive | Synonyms: forgetful, unmindful |
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| (adjective) devoid of intelligence or thought | Synonyms: vacant, vacuous |
| (adjective) lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being | - |
| (adjective) requiring little mental effort | - |
| (adjective) not marked by the use of reason | Synonyms: reasonless, senseless |
| mindlessly | (adverb) in an unreasonably senseless manner | Synonyms: senselessly |
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| (adverb) without intellectual involvement | - |
| mindlessness | (noun) the trait of acting rashly and without prudence | Synonyms: heedlessness, rashness |
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| (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, pointlessness, senselessness, vacuity |
| mishandle | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mismanage |
| mollycoddle | (noun) a pampered darling; an effeminate man | - |
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| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, pamper, spoil |
| mollycoddler | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: coddler, pamperer, spoiler |
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| muddle | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, smother, welter |
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| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, pickle |
| (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, puddle |
| (verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: puddle |
| muddled | (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: addled, befuddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded, wooly |
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| muddleheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, puddingheaded |
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| needle | (noun) a sharp pointed implement (usually steel) | - |
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| (noun) a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument | - |
| (noun) a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record | Synonyms: phonograph needle |
| (noun) the leaf of a conifer | Synonyms: acerate leaf |
| (verb) annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism | Synonyms: goad |
| (verb) prick with a needle | - |
| needlebush | (noun) shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea lissosperma, needle-bush, needle bush |
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| needlecraft | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlework |
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| (noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlework |
| needled | (adjective) of trees whose leaves are acerate | - |
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| needlefish | (noun) fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates | Synonyms: pipefish |
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| (noun) elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters | Synonyms: billfish, gar |
| needlelike | (adjective) ending in a sharp point | Synonyms: acuate, acute, sharp |
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| needlepoint | (noun) embroidery consisting of allover embroidered canvas resembling tapestry | Synonyms: needlepoint embroidery |
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| (noun) lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern | Synonyms: point lace |
| needless | (adjective) unnecessary and unwarranted | Synonyms: gratuitous, uncalled-for |
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| needlessly | (adverb) without need | - |
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| needlewoman | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, seamstress, sempstress |
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| needlewood | (noun) large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea leucoptera, needle-wood, needle wood |
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| needlework | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlecraft |
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| (noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlecraft |
| needleworker | (noun) someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle | - |
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| noddle | (noun) an informal British expression for head or mind | - |
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| noodle | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bean, bonce, dome, noggin |
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| (noun) a ribbonlike strip of pasta | - |
| offsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: unsaddle |
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| oodles | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| packsaddle | (noun) a saddle for pack animals to which loads can be attached | - |
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| paddle | (noun) a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat | Synonyms: boat paddle |
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| (noun) an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board | - |
| (noun) a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel | - |
| (noun) small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games | - |
| (verb) stir with a paddle | - |
| (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: larrup, spank |
| (verb) propel with a paddle | - |
| (verb) swim like a dog in shallow water | - |
| (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, toddle, totter, waddle |
| (verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children | Synonyms: dabble, splash around |
| paddlefish | (noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | Synonyms: duckbill, Polyodon spathula |
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| paddler | (noun) someone paddling a canoe | Synonyms: canoeist |
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| paddlewheel | (noun) a large wheel fitted with paddles and driven by an engine in order to propel a boat | Synonyms: paddle wheel |
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| panhandle | (noun) the handle of a pan | - |
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| (noun) a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area | - |
| (verb) beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money | - |
| panhandler | (noun) a beggar who approaches strangers asking for money | - |
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| paradiddle | (noun) the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously | Synonyms: drum roll, roll |
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| peddle | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, pitch, vend |
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| peddler | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, pedlar, pitchman |
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| (noun) an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, pusher |
| piddle | (noun) liquid excretory product | Synonyms: pee, piss, urine, water, weewee |
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| (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle away, trifle, wanton, wanton away |
| poodle | (noun) an intelligent dog with a heavy curly solid-colored coat that is usually clipped; an old breed sometimes trained as sporting dogs or as performing dogs | Synonyms: poodle dog |
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| puddle | (noun) something resembling a pool of liquid | Synonyms: pool |
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| (noun) a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid | Synonyms: pool |
| (noun) a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry | - |
| (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
| (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, muddle |
| (verb) mess around, as in a liquid or paste | - |
| (verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: muddle |
| (verb) work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud | - |
| (verb) make a puddle by splashing water | - |
| (verb) dip into mud before planting | - |
| (verb) subject to puddling or form by puddling | - |
| (verb) wade or dabble in a puddle | - |
| puddler | (noun) a worker who turns pig iron into wrought iron by puddling | - |
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| raddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: reddle, ruddle |
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| (verb) mark or paint with raddle | - |
| (verb) twist or braid together, interlace | Synonyms: ruddle |
| raddled | (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: careworn, drawn, haggard, worn |
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| (adjective) used until no longer useful | Synonyms: worn-out |
| reddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: raddle, ruddle |
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| regardless | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration | Synonyms: careless |
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| (adverb) in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks | Synonyms: disregarding, disregardless, irrespective, no matter |
| rekindle | (verb) arouse again | - |
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| (verb) kindle anew, as of a fire | - |
| riddle | (noun) a coarse sieve (as for gravel) | - |
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| (noun) a difficult problem | Synonyms: brain-teaser, conundrum, enigma |
| (verb) explain a riddle | - |
| (verb) set a difficult problem or riddle | - |
| (verb) speak in riddles | - |
| (verb) pierce with many holes | - |
| (verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade |
| riddled | (adjective) (often followed by `with') damaged throughout by numerous perforations or holes | - |
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| (adjective) spread throughout | - |
| ridley | (noun) a marine turtle | - |
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| roadless | (adjective) lacking pathways | Synonyms: pathless, trackless, untracked, untrod, untrodden |
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| ruddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: raddle, reddle |
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| (verb) redden as if with a red ocher color | - |
| (verb) twist or braid together, interlace | Synonyms: raddle |
| ruddles | (noun) the common European annual marigold | Synonyms: Calendula officinalis, common marigold, pot marigold, Scotch marigold |
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| rundle | (noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rung, spoke |
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| saddle | (noun) posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl | - |
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| (noun) a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal | - |
| (noun) a seat for the rider of a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle seat |
| (noun) a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe | - |
| (noun) cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins | - |
| (noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddleback |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, charge |
| (verb) put a saddle on | - |
| (verb) load or burden; encumber | - |
| saddleback | (noun) a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end | Synonyms: gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback roof |
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| (noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddle |
| saddlebag | (noun) a large bag (or pair of bags) hung over a saddle | - |
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| saddlebill | (noun) large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle | Synonyms: Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, jabiru |
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| saddlebow | (noun) handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle | Synonyms: pommel |
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| saddlecloth | (noun) stable gear consisting of a blanket placed under the saddle | Synonyms: horse blanket, saddle blanket |
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| saddled | (adjective) having a saddle on or being mounted on a saddled animal | - |
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| (adjective) subject to an imposed burden | - |
| saddler | (noun) a maker and repairer and seller of equipment for horses | - |
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