| deadlock | (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstill |
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| deadlocked | (adjective) at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions | Synonyms: stalemated |
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| defrock | (verb) divest of the frock; of church officials | Synonyms: unfrock |
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| diestock | (noun) a device that holds the dies that cut external threads on metal cylinders | - |
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| dock | (noun) the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair | - |
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| (noun) a short or shortened tail of certain animals | Synonyms: bob, bobtail |
| (noun) landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out | Synonyms: dockage, docking facility |
| (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: pier, wharf, wharfage |
| (noun) an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial | - |
| (noun) a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded | Synonyms: loading dock |
| (noun) any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine | Synonyms: sorrel, sour grass |
| (verb) maneuver into a dock | - |
| (verb) remove or shorten the tail of an animal | Synonyms: bob, tail |
| (verb) come into dock | - |
| (verb) deduct from someone's wages | - |
| (verb) deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty | - |
| dockage | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: docking, moorage, tying up |
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| (noun) landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out | Synonyms: dock, docking facility |
| (noun) a fee charged for a vessel to use a dock | Synonyms: docking fee |
| docker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| docket | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: agenda, schedule |
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| (noun) (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities | - |
| (verb) make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list | - |
| (verb) place on the docket for legal action | - |
| 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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| doorknocker | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: knocker, rapper |
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| doorlock | (noun) a lock on an exterior door | - |
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| dreadlock | (noun) one of many long thin braids of hair radiating from the scalp; popularized by Rastafarians | - |
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| drydock | (noun) a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline | Synonyms: dry dock, graving dock |
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| (verb) maneuver (a ship) into a drydock | Synonyms: dry-dock |
| dunnock | (noun) small brownish European songbird | Synonyms: hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis, sparrow |
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| electroshock | (noun) the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma | Synonyms: ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock therapy |
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| feedstock | (noun) the raw material that is required for some industrial process | - |
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| fetlock | (noun) projection behind and above a horse's hoof | - |
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| (noun) the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern | Synonyms: fetlock joint |
| firelock | (noun) a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock | Synonyms: flintlock |
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| flintlock | (noun) an obsolete gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge | - |
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| (noun) a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock | Synonyms: firelock |
| flock | (noun) a group of birds | - |
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| (noun) a group of sheep or goats | Synonyms: fold |
| (noun) a church congregation guided by a pastor | - |
| (noun) an orderly crowd | Synonyms: troop |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, cluster, constellate |
| (verb) move as a crowd or in a group | - |
| footlocker | (noun) a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) | Synonyms: locker |
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| forelock | (noun) a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears | Synonyms: foretop |
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| (noun) a lock of hair growing (or falling) over the forehead | - |
| foreshock | (noun) a tremor preceding an earthquake | - |
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| frock | (noun) a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice | Synonyms: dress |
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| (noun) a habit worn by clerics | - |
| (noun) a long, loose outer garment | - |
| (verb) put a frock on | - |
| gamecock | (noun) a cock bred and trained for fighting | Synonyms: fighting cock |
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| (noun) someone who is a very fierce fighter | Synonyms: hell-kite, hell-rooster |
| glockenspiel | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers | Synonyms: orchestral bells |
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| goldilocks | (noun) early-flowering perennial of southern and southeastern Europe with flower heads resembling those of goldenrod | Synonyms: Aster linosyris, goldilocks aster, Linosyris vulgaris |
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| greenockite | (noun) ore of cadmium; a rare yellowish mineral consisting of cadmium sulphide in crystalline form | Synonyms: cadmium sulphide |
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| gridlock | (noun) a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible | - |
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| gritrock | (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: grit, gritstone |
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| gunlock | (noun) the action that ignites the charge in a firearm | Synonyms: firing mechanism |
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| gunstock | (noun) the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun | Synonyms: stock |
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| haddock | (noun) important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller | Synonyms: Melanogrammus aeglefinus |
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| (noun) lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried | - |
| hammerlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back | - |
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| hammock | (noun) a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily | Synonyms: sack |
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| (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hillock, hummock, knoll, mound |
| handlock | (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff, manacle |
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| hassock | (noun) a cushion for kneeling on (as when praying in church) | - |
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| (noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: ottoman, pouf, pouffe, puff |
| havelock | (noun) a cloth covering for a service cap with a flap extending over the back of the neck to protect the neck from direct rays of the sun | - |
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| haycock | (noun) a small cone-shaped pile of hay that has been left in the field until it is dry enough to carry to the hayrick | - |
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| headlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's head is locked between the crook of your elbow and the side of your body | - |
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| headstock | (noun) the stationary support in a machine or power tool that supports and drives a revolving part (as a chuck or the spindle on a lathe) | - |
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| hemlock | (noun) an evergreen tree, could refer to any one of a genus of conifers named Tsuga | Synonyms: hemlock tree |
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| (noun) soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock | - |
| (noun) large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous | Synonyms: California fern, Conium maculatum, Nebraska fern, poison hemlock, poison parsley, winter fern |
| (noun) poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium | - |
| hillock | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hummock, knoll, mound |
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| hock | (noun) tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle | Synonyms: hock-joint |
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| (noun) any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage) | Synonyms: Rhenish, Rhine wine |
| (verb) disable by cutting the hock | - |
| (verb) leave as a guarantee in return for money | Synonyms: pawn, soak |
| hockey | (noun) a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved hockey sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net | Synonyms: field hockey |
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| (noun) a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled hockey sticks | Synonyms: hockey game, ice hockey |
| hollyhock | (noun) any of various tall plants of the genus Alcea; native to the Middle East but widely naturalized and cultivated for its very large variously colored flowers | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea | Synonyms: althaea, althea |
| hummock | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hillock, knoll, mound |
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| interlock | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlocking, mesh, meshing |
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| (noun) a device that prevents an automotive engine from starting | Synonyms: ignition interlock |
| (verb) coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively | Synonyms: mesh |
| (verb) become engaged or intermeshed with one another | Synonyms: lock |
| (verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlace, lock |
| interlocking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlinking, interwoven |
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| (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, mesh, meshing |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, mesh, meshing |
| jabberwocky | (noun) nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll) | - |
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| jock | (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jockstrap, supporter, suspensor |
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| (noun) a person trained to compete in sports | Synonyms: athlete |
| jockey | (noun) someone employed to ride horses in horse races | - |
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| (noun) an operator of some vehicle or machine or apparatus | - |
| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, screw, shaft |
| (verb) ride a racehorse as a professional jockey | - |
| (verb) compete (for an advantage or a position) | - |
| jockstrap | (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jock, supporter, suspensor |
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| knickerbockers | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickers |
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| knock | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, rap, whack, whang |
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| (noun) negative criticism | Synonyms: roast |
| (noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bang, bash, belt, smash |
| (noun) the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing) | Synonyms: knocking |
| (noun) a bad experience | - |
| (verb) find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws | Synonyms: criticise, criticize, pick apart |
| (verb) knock against with force or violence | Synonyms: bump |
| (verb) rap with the knuckles | - |
| (verb) deliver a sharp blow or push | Synonyms: strike hard |
| (verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface | Synonyms: pink, rap, tap |
| (verb) sound like a car engine that is firing too early | Synonyms: ping, pink |
| knockabout | (adjective) suitable for rough use | - |
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| (adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: boisterous |
| (noun) a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit | - |
| knockdown | (adjective) (furniture) easily assembled and dismantled | - |
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| (noun) a blow that knocks the opponent off his feet | - |
| knocker | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: doorknocker, rapper |
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| (noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | Synonyms: boob, bosom, breast, tit, titty |
| (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, detractor, disparager |
| (noun) a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance) | - |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person | - |
| knocking | (noun) the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing) | Synonyms: knock |
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| knockoff | (noun) an unauthorized copy or imitation | Synonyms: clone |
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| knockout | (adjective) very strong or vigorous | Synonyms: hard, severe |
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| (noun) a blow that renders the opponent unconscious | Synonyms: kayo, KO |
| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| knockwurst | (noun) short thick highly seasoned sausage | Synonyms: knackwurst |
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| landlocked | (adjective) surrounded entirely or almost entirely by land | - |
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| laughingstock | (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, goat, stooge |
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| linstock | (noun) a stick about a meter long with a point on one end (to stick in the ground) and a forked head on the other end (to hold a lighted match); formerly used to fire cannons | - |
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| livestock | (noun) any animals kept for use or profit | Synonyms: farm animal, stock |
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| lock | (noun) any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured | - |
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| (noun) a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed | - |
| (noun) a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key | Synonyms: ignition lock |
| (noun) enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it | Synonyms: lock chamber |
| (noun) a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun | - |
| (noun) a strand or cluster of hair | - |
| (verb) become rigid or immoveable | - |
| (verb) fasten with a lock | - |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, mesh, operate |
| (verb) place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape | Synonyms: lock away, lock in, lock up, put away, shut away, shut up |
| (verb) become engaged or intermeshed with one another | Synonyms: interlock |
| (verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlace, interlock |
| (verb) build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels | - |
| (verb) hold fast (in a certain state) | - |
| (verb) pass by means through a lock in a waterway | - |
| lockage | (noun) passage through a lock in a canal or waterway | - |
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| (noun) a system of locks in a canal or waterway | - |
| (noun) a fee charged for passage through a lock in a canal or waterway | - |
| lockbox | (noun) a fireproof metal strongbox (usually in a bank) for storing valuables | Synonyms: deposit box, safe-deposit, safe-deposit box, safety-deposit, safety deposit box |
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| lockdown | (noun) the act of confining prisoners to their cells (usually to regain control during a riot) | - |
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| locker | (noun) a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock | Synonyms: cabinet, storage locker |
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| (noun) a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) | Synonyms: footlocker |
| (noun) a fastener that locks or closes | - |
| locket | (noun) a small ornamental case; usually contains a picture or a lock of hair and is worn on a necklace | - |
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| locking | (noun) the act of locking something up to protect it | Synonyms: lockup |
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| lockjaw | (noun) an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages | Synonyms: tetanus |
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| lockkeeper | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockman, lockmaster |
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| lockman | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockkeeper, lockmaster |
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| lockmaster | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockkeeper, lockman |
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| locknut | (noun) supplementary nut that is screwed down on a primary nut to prevent it from loosening | Synonyms: safety nut |
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| lockout | (noun) a management action resisting employee's demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to terms | - |
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| lockring | (noun) washer that prevents a nut from loosening | Synonyms: lock ring, lock washer |
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| locksmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs locks | - |
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| lockstep | (noun) a manner of marching in file in which each person's leg moves with and behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead | - |
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| (noun) a standard procedure that is followed mindlessly | - |
| lockstitch | (noun) machine stitch in which the top thread interlocks with the bobbin thread | - |
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| lockup | (noun) the act of locking something up to protect it | Synonyms: locking |
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| (noun) jail in a local police station | - |
| matchlock | (noun) an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge | - |
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| mattock | (noun) a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle | - |
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| mock | (adjective) constituting a copy or imitation of something | - |
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| (noun) the act of mocking or ridiculing | - |
| (verb) treat with contempt | Synonyms: bemock |
| (verb) imitate with mockery and derision | - |
| mocker | (noun) long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds | Synonyms: Mimus polyglotktos, mockingbird |
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| (noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: flouter, jeerer, scoffer |
| mockernut | (noun) smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut | Synonyms: big-bud hickory, black hickory, Carya tomentosa, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory |
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| mockery | (noun) humorous or satirical mimicry | Synonyms: parody, takeoff |
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| (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, jeering, scoff, scoffing |
| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
| mocking | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, gibelike, jeering, taunting |
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| (adjective) playfully vexing (especially by ridicule) | Synonyms: quizzical, teasing |
| mockingbird | (noun) long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds | Synonyms: Mimus polyglotktos, mocker |
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| mockingly | (adverb) in a disrespectful and mocking manner | Synonyms: derisively, derisorily, scoffingly |
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| (adverb) in a disrespectful jeering manner | Synonyms: gibingly, jeeringly |
| moorcock | (noun) male red grouse | - |
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| nock | (verb) make small marks into the surface of | Synonyms: mark, score |
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| oarlock | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: peg, pin, rowlock, thole, tholepin |
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