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All Words Glossary
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noun - A ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads from which at one end protrudes a cord on which the tassel is hung, and which may have loose, dangling threads at the other end. Tassels are normally decorative elements, and as such one often finds them attached, usually along the bottom hem, to garments, curtains or other hangings.
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noun
- A set of draught animals, like two horses in front of a carriage.
- Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially referring to sports and work.
verb
- To form a sports or work group.
- They teamed up to complete the project.
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noun
- (colloquial) A Teddy boy.
proper noun
- (given name, male)
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noun - A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying.
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adjective (thirstier, thirstiest)
- Needing to drink
- A physical demand for satiation of basic needs
- After all that work I am really
- Crave, craving for something
- A deeply felt need for psychological attainment
- I am for knowledge.
- After that horrible president left office, the nation was for change.
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noun
- A cash register
verb
- (transitive) To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc).
- (transitive) To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegatation and crops.
- (intransitive) To cultivate soil.
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adjective
- (context, of land) able to be tilled or ploughed; arable
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noun
- the cultivation of arable land by plowing, sowing and raising crops
- land that has been so cultivated
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noun
- The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.
- The land is in good and ready to plant.
- Rich cultivated soil.
- "What good ," he said, grabbing a handful of soil.
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noun
- A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun-carriage.
- 1843, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=768645758&tag=073v2&query=truck&id=eaf073v2 Chapter 3
- : "Put that cannon up once, and I'll answer for it that no Injin faces it. 'Twill be as good as a dozen sentinels," answered Joel. "As for mountin', I thought of that before I said a syllable about the crittur. There's the new -wheels in the court, all ready to hold it, and the carpenters can put the hinder part to the whull, in an hour or two
- The ball on top of a flagpole.
- (nautical) On a wooden mast, a circular disc of wood at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards.
- "But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. Is not the main- higher than the kelson is low? Herman Melville, Moby Dick, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=470730770&tag=EAF642&query=truck&id=eaf642 Chapter 9.
- A semitractor trailor; a lorry.
- NO THRU TRUCKS
- NO TRUCKS LEFT LANE
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbit, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=431826066&textreg=2&query=truck&id=LewBabb Chapter 1
- : A line of fifty trucks from the Zenith Steel and Machinery Company was attacked by strikers-rushing out from the sidewalk, pulling drivers from the seats, smashing carburetors and commutators, while telephone girls cheered from the walk, and small boys heaved bricks.
- (context, originally, US) Any motor vehicle designed for carrying cargo, also including vans and pickups.
- A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow.
- A small wagon pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, of various designs, as with those in hotels for moving luggage, or in libraries for transporting books for reshelving.
- 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=579429221&tag=Sinclair,+Upton,+1878-1968:+The+Jungle,+1906&query=truck&id=SinJung Chapter 3
- : From the doors of these rooms went men with loaded trucks, to the platform where freight cars were waiting to be filled; and one went out there and realized with a start that he had come at last to the ground floor of this enormous building.
- A pantechnicon.
- A flatbed railway car.
- The pivoting frame of a railway car that supports the wheels and allows them to make turns.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=427817595&tag=Lawrence,+D.+H.:+Sons+and+Lovers,+1913&query=truck&id=LawSons Sons and Lovers
- : Far away he could hear the sharp clinking of the trucks on the railway. No, it was not they that were far away. They were there in their places. But where was he himself?''
- The part of a skateboard that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings. Sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
verb
- (intransitive) To drive a truck.
- (transitive) To convey by truck.
- (intransitive) To travel contentedly.
- Keep on trucking!
- (film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
adjective
- Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.
- November 4, 1792 As the home house people (the industrious part of them at least) might want ground for their patches, they might, for this purpose, cultivate what would be cleared. But I would have the ground from the cross fence by the Spring, quite round by the Wharf, first grubbed, before the (above mentioned) is attempted. " George Washington, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=700376730&tag=Washington,+George,+1732-1799:+The+writings+of+George+Washington+from+the+original+manuscript+sources:+Volume+32,+1745-1799&query=truck&id=WasFi32 The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources: Volume 32, 1745-1799.
- 1903 "Wid dat, Brer Rabbit 'low dat Mr. Man done been had 'im hired fer ter take keer er his patch, an' keep out de minks, de mush-rats an' de weasels. " Joel Chandler Harris, "Brother Rabbit's Cradle", New Stories of the Old Plantation, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=338797731&tag=Harris,+Joel+Chandler,+1848-1908:+Brother+Rabbit`s+Cradle,+1903&query=truck&id=HarBrot Chapter 11
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noun
- the conveyance of freight by trucks
- (Broadcasting)To move the camera laterally.
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