aftershaft | (noun) a supplementary feather (usually small) on the underside of the base of the shaft of some feathers in some birds | - |
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aftershafted | (adjective) having an aftershaft (a small feather at the base of some feathers) | - |
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camshaft | (noun) an engine shaft with cams attached to it | - |
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chafe | (noun) anger produced by some annoying irritation | Synonyms: annoyance, vexation |
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(noun) soreness and warmth caused by friction | - |
(verb) warm by rubbing, as with the hands | - |
(verb) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading | Synonyms: excoriate |
(verb) cause friction | Synonyms: fray, fret, rub, scratch |
(verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
(verb) feel extreme irritation or anger | - |
(verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: fret, gall |
chafed | (adjective) painful from having the skin abraded | Synonyms: galled |
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chafeweed | (noun) weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike | Synonyms: Gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed |
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chaff | (noun) foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure | - |
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(noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble |
(verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, jolly, josh, kid |
chaffer | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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(verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: haggle, higgle, huckster |
chaffinch | (noun) small European finch with a cheerful song | Synonyms: Fringilla coelebs |
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chafflike | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chaffy |
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chaffweed | (noun) weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves | Synonyms: bastard pimpernel, false pimpernel |
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chaffy | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chafflike |
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(adjective) value | - |
chafing | (noun) soreness or irritation of the skin caused by friction | - |
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cockchafer | (noun) any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult | Synonyms: May beetle, May bug, Melolontha melolontha |
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crankshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft driven by (or driving) a crank | - |
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driveshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application | - |
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hafnium | (noun) a grey tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals; used in filaments for its ready emission of electrons | Synonyms: atomic number 72, Hf |
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haft | (noun) the handle of a weapon or tool | Synonyms: helve |
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mineshaft | (noun) excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine | - |
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shaft | (noun) the hollow spine of a feather | Synonyms: calamus, quill |
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(noun) a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow) | - |
(noun) a revolving rod that transmits power or motion | Synonyms: rotating shaft |
(noun) a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel | - |
(noun) (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column | Synonyms: scape |
(noun) a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) | - |
(noun) a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon | Synonyms: lance, spear |
(noun) the main (mid) section of a long bone | Synonyms: diaphysis |
(noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, prick, putz, tool |
(noun) a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer | - |
(noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shot, slam |
(noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) | Synonyms: beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft of light |
(verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, screw |
(verb) equip with a shaft | - |