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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) |
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Related Words: axle, rod, thill |
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(noun) a vertical passage into a mine |
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Related Words: air shaft, air well, passage |
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(noun) the vertical part of a column |
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Related Words: upright, vertical |
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(noun) a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) |
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Related Words: passageway, well |
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(noun) a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer |
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Related Words: line |
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(noun) a revolving rod that transmits power or motion |
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Synonyms: rotating shaft |
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Related Words: arbor, camshaft, crankshaft, driveshaft, mandrel, mandril, rod, spindle, transmission shaft |
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(noun) the main (mid) section of a long bone |
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Synonyms: diaphysis |
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Related Words: long bone, os longum |
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(noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets" |
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Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shot, slam |
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Related Words: comment, remark |
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(verb) defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit |
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Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, screw |
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Related Words: beat, beat out, crush, trounce, vanquish |
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(noun) the hollow shaft of a feather |
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Synonyms: calamus, quill |
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Related Words: rib |
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(noun) a long pointed rod used as a weapon |
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Synonyms: lance, spear |
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Related Words: arm, assagai, assegai, javelin, trident, weapon, weapon system |
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(noun) obscene terms for penis |
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Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, peter, prick, tool |
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Related Words: member, penis, phallus |
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(noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) |
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Synonyms: beam, beam of light, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft of light |
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Related Words: laser beam, light, moonbeam, moonray, sunbeam, sunray, visible light, visible radiation |
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