awl | (noun) a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes | - |
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batfowl | (verb) catch birds by temporarily blinding them | - |
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bawl | (verb) cry loudly | - |
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(verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bellow |
(verb) make a raucous noise | Synonyms: yawp |
bowl | (noun) the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) | Synonyms: roll |
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(noun) a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods | - |
(noun) a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding grains or liquids | - |
(noun) a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco | Synonyms: pipe bowl |
(noun) a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments | Synonyms: arena, sports stadium, stadium |
(noun) a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling | - |
(noun) a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling | Synonyms: bowling ball |
(noun) the quantity contained in a bowl | Synonyms: bowlful |
(noun) a concave shape with an open top | Synonyms: trough |
(verb) engage in the sport of bowling | - |
(verb) hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end | - |
(verb) roll (a ball) | - |
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 |
(verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | Synonyms: wrangle |
cowl | (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: bonnet, cowling, hood |
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(noun) a loose hood or hooded robe (as worn by a monk) | - |
(verb) cover with or as with a cowl | - |
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 | - |
(verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: creep |
(verb) swim by doing the crawl | - |
(verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
(verb) be full of | - |
(verb) feel as if crawling with insects | - |
drawl | (noun) a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels | - |
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(verb) lengthen and slow down or draw out | - |
fishbowl | (noun) a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept | Synonyms: fish bowl, goldfish bowl |
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(noun) a state of affairs in which you have no privacy | Synonyms: fish bowl, goldfish bowl |
fowl | (noun) a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl | Synonyms: domestic fowl, poultry |
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(noun) the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food | Synonyms: bird |
(verb) hunt fowl in the forest | - |
(verb) hunt fowl | - |
growl | (noun) the sound of growling (as made by animals) | Synonyms: growling |
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(verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: grumble, rumble |
heathfowl | (noun) large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail | Synonyms: European black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix |
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howl | (noun) a long loud emotional utterance | Synonyms: howling, ululation |
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(noun) a loud sustained noise resembling the cry of a hound | - |
(noun) the long plaintive cry of a hound or a wolf | - |
(verb) laugh unrestrainedly and heartily | Synonyms: roar |
(verb) make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles | Synonyms: roar |
(verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: roar, ululate, wail, yaup, yawl |
(verb) cry loudly, as of animals | Synonyms: wrawl, yammer, yowl |
jowl | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jawbone, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla |
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(noun) a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging) | - |
mewl | (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: pule, wail, whimper |
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moorfowl | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorgame, red grouse |
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owl | (noun) nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes | Synonyms: bird of Minerva, bird of night, hooter |
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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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peafowl | (noun) very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird | Synonyms: bird of Juno |
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prowl | (noun) the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner) | - |
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(verb) move about in or as if in a predatory manner | - |
(verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: lurch |
scowl | (noun) a facial expression of dislike or displeasure | Synonyms: frown |
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(verb) frown with displeasure | - |
scrawl | (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: cacography, scratch, scribble |
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(verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scribble |
seafowl | (noun) a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls, pelicans, gannets, cormorants, albatrosses, petrels, etc. | Synonyms: sea bird, seabird |
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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 |
(verb) sit or lie with one's limbs spread out | - |
(verb) go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | Synonyms: straggle |
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 |
(verb) fish with trawlers | - |
washbowl | (noun) a basin for washing the hands | Synonyms: handbasin, lavabo, wash-hand basin, washbasin |
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(noun) a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face | Synonyms: basin, lavatory, washbasin, washstand |
waterfowl | (noun) freshwater aquatic bird | Synonyms: water bird, waterbird |
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wawl | (verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: squall, waul |
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wildfowl | (noun) flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food | - |
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wrawl | (verb) cry loudly, as of animals | Synonyms: howl, yammer, yowl |
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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) | - |
(verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, ululate, wail, yaup |
yowl | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring |
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(verb) utter shrieks, as of cats | Synonyms: caterwaul |
(verb) cry loudly, as of animals | Synonyms: howl, wrawl, yammer |