| dockhand | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| docking | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: dockage, moorage, tying up |
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| dockside | (noun) the region adjacent to a boat dock | - |
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| dockworker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| dockyard | (noun) an establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired | - |
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| doctor | (noun) children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office | - |
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| (noun) a licensed medical practitioner | Synonyms: doc, Dr., MD, medico, physician |
| (noun) a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution | Synonyms: Dr. |
| (verb) give medical treatment to | - |
| (verb) alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive | Synonyms: doctor up, sophisticate |
| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
| doctoral | (adjective) of or relating to a doctor or doctorate | Synonyms: doctorial |
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| doctorate | (noun) one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university | Synonyms: doctor's degree |
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| doctorfish | (noun) surgeon fish of the West Indies | Synonyms: Acanthurus chirurgus, doctor-fish |
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| doctorial | (adjective) of or relating to a doctor or doctorate | Synonyms: doctoral |
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| doctorspeak | (noun) medical jargon | - |
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| doctrinaire | (adjective) stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability | - |
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| (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: dogmatist |
| doctrinal | (adjective) relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine | - |
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| doctrinally | (adverb) as a matter of doctrine | - |
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| doctrine | (noun) a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school | Synonyms: ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought |
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| docudrama | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: documentary, documentary film, infotainment |
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| document | (noun) anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks | - |
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| (noun) writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) | Synonyms: papers, written document |
| (noun) (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters | Synonyms: text file |
| (noun) a written account of ownership or obligation | - |
| (verb) support or supply with references | - |
| (verb) record in detail | - |
| documental | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documentary |
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| documentary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documental |
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| (adjective) (of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event | - |
| (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary film, infotainment |
| documentation | (noun) documentary validation | Synonyms: support |
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| (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: certification, corroboration |
| (noun) program listings or technical manuals describing the operation and use of programs | Synonyms: software documentation |
| documented | (adjective) furnished with or supported by documents | - |
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| (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: attested, authenticated |
| dodder | (noun) a leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain nourishment through haustoria | - |
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| (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, paddle, toddle, totter, waddle |
| dodderer | (noun) one who dodders from old age and weakness | - |
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| doddering | (adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddery, gaga, senile |
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| doddery | (adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddering, gaga, senile |
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| doddle | (noun) an easy task | - |
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| dodecagon | (noun) a twelve-sided polygon | - |
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| dodecahedron | (noun) any polyhedron having twelve plane faces | - |
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| dodge | (noun) a quick evasive movement | - |
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| (noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: contrivance, stratagem |
| (noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | Synonyms: dodging, scheme |
| (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
| (verb) make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid | - |
| (verb) move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course | - |
| dodger | (noun) small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern) | Synonyms: corn dab, corn dodger |
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| (noun) a shifty deceptive person | Synonyms: fox, slyboots |
| dodging | (noun) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do | Synonyms: escape, evasion |
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| (noun) deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Synonyms: avoidance, shunning, turning away |
| (noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | Synonyms: dodge, scheme |
| dodgy | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| (adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chanceful, chancy, dicey |
| dodo | (noun) extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons | Synonyms: Raphus cucullatus |
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| (noun) someone whose style is out of fashion | Synonyms: fogey, fogy, fossil |
| doe | (noun) mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck' | - |
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| doer | (noun) a person who acts and gets things done | Synonyms: actor, worker |
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| doeskin | (noun) a fine smooth soft woolen fabric | - |
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| (noun) soft leather from deerskin or lambskin | - |
| doff | (verb) to take off from the body or head | - |
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| dog | (noun) a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds | Synonyms: Canis familiaris, domestic dog |
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| (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, pawl |
| (noun) metal supports for logs in a fireplace | Synonyms: andiron, dog-iron, firedog |
| (noun) a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll | Synonyms: frank, frankfurter, hot dog, hotdog, weenie, wiener, wienerwurst |
| (noun) informal term for a man | - |
| (noun) a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman | Synonyms: frump |
| (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, bounder, cad, heel, hound |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail |
| dogbane | (noun) any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root | - |
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| dogcart | (noun) a cart drawn by a dog | - |
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| doge | (noun) formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa | - |
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| dogfight | (noun) a violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling) | - |
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| (noun) an aerial engagement between fighter planes | - |
| (noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: hassle, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
| (noun) a fiercely disputed contest | - |
| (verb) engage in an aerial battle with another fighter plane | - |
| (verb) arrange for an illegal dogfight | - |
| dogfighter | (noun) a fighter pilot who engages in an aerial dogfights | - |
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| dogfish | (noun) any of several small sharks | - |
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| (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, bowfin, grindle |
| dogged | (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding |
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| doggedly | (adverb) with obstinate determination | Synonyms: tenaciously |
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| doggedness | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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| doggerel | (noun) a comic verse of irregular measure | Synonyms: doggerel verse, jingle |
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| doggie | (noun) informal terms for dogs | Synonyms: barker, bow-wow, doggy, pooch |
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| dogging | (adjective) relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: persisting |
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| doggo | (adverb) quietly in concealment | Synonyms: in hiding, out of sight |
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| doggy | (noun) informal terms for dogs | Synonyms: barker, bow-wow, doggie, pooch |
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| doghouse | (noun) outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog | Synonyms: dog house, kennel |
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| (noun) an idiomatic term for being in disfavor | - |
| dogie | (noun) motherless calf in a range herd of cattle | Synonyms: dogy, leppy |
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| dogleg | (noun) a golf hole with a sharp angle in the fairway | - |
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| (noun) angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog | - |
| doglike | (adjective) resembling a dog; especially in devotion | - |
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| dogma | (noun) a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative | - |
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| (noun) a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof | Synonyms: tenet |
| dogmatic | (adjective) relating to or involving dogma | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative | - |
| (adjective) characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles | Synonyms: dogmatical |
| dogmatical | (adjective) characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles | Synonyms: dogmatic |
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| dogmatically | (adverb) in a narrow-minded dogmatic manner | - |
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| dogmatise | (verb) state as a dogma | Synonyms: dogmatize |
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| (verb) speak dogmatically | Synonyms: dogmatize |
| dogmatism | (noun) tendency to assert principles as undeniably true | - |
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| dogmatist | (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: doctrinaire |
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| dogmatize | (verb) state as a dogma | Synonyms: dogmatise |
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| (verb) speak dogmatically | Synonyms: dogmatise |
| dogsbody | (noun) a worker who has to do all the unpleasant or boring jobs that no one else wants to do | - |
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| dogshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, crap, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
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| dogsled | (noun) a sled pulled by dogs | Synonyms: dog sled, dog sleigh |
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| (verb) travel with a dogsled | Synonyms: mush |
| dogtooth | (noun) a carved pyramidal ornament; used in 13th century England | - |
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| (noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine, canine tooth, cuspid, eye tooth, eyetooth |
| (noun) perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated | Synonyms: dog's-tooth violet, dogtooth violet |
| dogtrot | (noun) a steady trot like that of a dog | - |
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| dogwatch | (noun) either of two short watches: from 4-6 pm or 6-8 pm | - |
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| dogwood | (noun) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers | Synonyms: cornel, dogwood tree |
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| (noun) hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood | - |
| dogy | (noun) motherless calf in a range herd of cattle | Synonyms: dogie, leppy |
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| doh | (noun) the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization | Synonyms: do, ut |
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| doily | (noun) a small round piece of linen placed under a dish or bowl | Synonyms: doyley, doyly |
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| doings | (noun) manner of acting or controlling yourself | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct |
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| dojigger | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| dol | (noun) a unit of pain intensity | - |
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| dolabrate | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabriform |
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| dolabriform | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabrate |
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| dolce | (adverb) gently and sweetly | - |
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| doldrums | (noun) a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific | - |
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| (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: stagnancy, stagnation |
| dole | (noun) money received from the state | Synonyms: pogey, pogy |
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| (noun) a share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given | - |
| doleful | (adjective) filled with or evoking sadness | Synonyms: mournful |
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| dolefully | (adverb) with sadness; in a sorrowful manner | Synonyms: sorrowfully |
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| dolefulness | (noun) sadness caused by grief or affliction | - |
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| dolichocephalic | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocranial, dolichocranic |
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| (noun) an adult with a long narrow head | - |
| dolichocephalism | (noun) the quality of being dolichocephalic | Synonyms: dolichocephaly |
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| dolichocephaly | (noun) the quality of being dolichocephalic | Synonyms: dolichocephalism |
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| dolichocranial | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocephalic, dolichocranic |
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| dolichocranic | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocephalic, dolichocranial |
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| doliolum | (noun) free-swimming oceanic tunicate with a barrel-shaped transparent body | - |
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| doll | (noun) a small replica of a person; used as a toy | Synonyms: dolly |
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| (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, chick, dame, skirt, wench |
| dollar | (noun) a symbol of commercialism or greed | Synonyms: dollar mark, dollar sign |
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| (noun) a piece of paper money worth one dollar | Synonyms: buck, clam, dollar bill, one dollar bill |
| (noun) a United States coin worth one dollar | - |
| (noun) the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents | - |
| dollarfish | (noun) small food fish of Atlantic coast | Synonyms: Poronotus triacanthus |
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| (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
| dollhouse | (noun) a small model of a house used as a toy by children | Synonyms: doll's house |
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| (noun) a house so small that it is likened to a child's plaything | Synonyms: doll's house |
| dollop | (noun) a small measure (usually of food) | - |
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| dolly | (noun) a small replica of a person; used as a toy | Synonyms: doll |
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| (noun) conveyance consisting of a wheeled platform for moving heavy objects | - |
| (noun) conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted | - |
| dolman | (noun) a woman's cloak with dolman sleeves | - |
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| (noun) a hussar's jacket worn over the shoulders | Synonyms: dolman jacket |
| dolmas | (noun) well-seasoned rice (with nuts or currants or minced lamb) simmered or braised in stock | Synonyms: stuffed grape leaves |
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| dolmen | (noun) a prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstone | Synonyms: cromlech, portal tomb |
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