A person skilled at carpentry.
(nautical) a senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water

carport

noun

A roofed structure for automobile storage; differs from a garage in that it has no walls.

Franklin decided to improve his by walling in the sides and turning it into a garage.

carriage

noun

A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.

The ride was very romantic.

A railroad car drawn by a locomotive.
(archaic) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself.

His noble concealed the heart of a knave.

The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
(local to New England) A shopping cart.
A baby stroller; a baby carraige.

carriage bolt

noun

A type of bolt with a rounded head and a square shank which will not turn.

casement

noun

a window sash that is hinged on the side and opens outward
a window having such sashes; a casement window
(military) a casemate

casing

noun

That which encloses or encases.

Some people like to split the of a sausage before cooking so it doesn't split, others don't.

verb

(present participle of, case)

caulk

noun (wikipedia, caulking)

caulking

verb (caulks, caulking, caulked, caulked)

to drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull in order to make them watertight

ceil

noun

(poetic) a ceiling

verb

To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.

ceiling

noun (plural: ceilings)

The upper limit of an object or action.

price ceilings

The plane or planes that bound the upper limit of a room.

the dining room had an ornate ceiling

(aviation) The highest altitude at which an aircraft may fly.
(mathematics) The smallest integer greater than or equal to a given number.

the ceiling of 4.5 is 5

cellar

noun

An enclosed underground space, often under a building; used for storage or shelter
A wine collection, epsecially when stored in a cellar
(slang) Last place in a competition.
(historical) A small dish for holding salt

cement

noun

A powdered substance that develops strong adhesive properties when mixed with water.
The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water.
Any material with strong adhesive properties.
(count noun) A particular type or brand of cement.

verb

To affix with cement.
(figuratively) To ensure an outcome.

centering

verb

(present participle of, center)

cesspool

noun

A place where sewage is held; a cesspit.
A filthy place

chamfer

noun

(context, engineering, drafting, CAD) an angled relief or cut at an edge added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges

channel

noun

The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.

''The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the .

The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.

A was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.

The navigable part of a river.

We were careful to keep our boat in the .

A narrow body of water between two land masses.

The English Channel lies between France and England.

(electronics) A connection between initiate, initiating and terminate, terminating nodes of a circuit.

The guard-rail provided the between the downed wire and the tree.

(electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
1. (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
A stretches between them.
1. (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
We are using one of the 24 channels.
1. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
The is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
1. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
Their call is being carried on 6 of the T-1 line.
1. (context, broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
KNDD is the at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
1. (context, broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
NBC is on 11 in San Jose.
1. (context, storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
This chip in this disk drive is the device.
1. (context, technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
The liquid is pressurized in the lateral .

verb

To direct the flow of something.

We will the traffic to the left with these cones.

To assume the personality of another person, typically a historic figure, in a theatrical or paranormal presentation.

When it is my turn to sing Karaoke, I am going to Ray Charles.

channelize

verb to channelize

to form a channel, especially by deepening or altering the course of a river
to transmit something through a channel
to multiplex messages through a single line

Chase

proper noun

(given name, male) of modern usage, from the surname Chase,a Middle English nickname for a hunter.

chaser

noun

A person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases.
A mild drink consumed immediately after another drink of hard liquor.
(context, logging, obsolete) Someone that follows logs out of the forest in order to signal a yarder engineer to stop them if they become fouled - also called a frogger.

- 1900: Pamphlets on Logging Equipment author unknown - Page 22
- :"...on one end knwon as a Bardon choker hook, to facilitate making a loop, It stays tight and makes it unnecessary for the "" or "choker setter" to follow the "turn" tothe landing as might have to be done if tongs are used"
- 1913: Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States by Ralph Clement Bryant - Page 219
- :"A follows the logs to the landing, often riding in a rigging sled hollowed out of a log, which is attached to the rear log. The can signal to the road engineer at any point..."
- 1918: United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation: Hearing Before the Committee on ... by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
- :"and the is the fellow whose job it is to follow along after these logs to..."
  1. (context, logging) one who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
- 1956: Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumber- Jack by Stewart Hall Holbrook - Page 184
- :"The rigging slinger hooks the chokers to the main line' the chaser unhooks them at the spar tree."
- 1975: Nobody Here But Us: Pioneers of the North by Fred Moira Farrow - Page 170
- :A chaser was the man who unhooked the logs that were yarded in to the spar tree.
- 1985: Logging and Pulpwood Production by John Kenneth Pearce, George Stenzel - Pages 242-243
- :"When the turn arrives at the landing, the directs the engineer where to drop the turn by hand signals. The then unhooks the chokers, gets in the clear, and singlas to reel in the haulback line".
  1. A horse trained for steeple-chasing, a steeple-chaser.
- 2002: Betting for a Living by Nick Mordin - Page 351
- :"It looked like The Fellow was the best steeplechaser in many years. He'd earned the best speed rating I'd ever given a ."
- 2003: American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002 by Avalyn Hunter - Page 458
- :"Wild Risk...had his greatest successes as a steeplechaser rather than a flat racer... It is rare indeed that a ' - even one as good as wild risk - makes a good flat sire."
- 2004: Sports Ticket: Live the Action! by Sportsfile - Page 179
- :"Oh, that final furlong! It can be both agony and ecstasy. Anyone who doubts that should have seen the television close-up of Jim Lewis as his great Best Mate came up the final hill at Cheltenham in 2004 to clich a hat-trick of Gold Cups. ... Best mate is the best steeplechaser we ahve seen for years and all being well will be at the Cheltenham Festival again in 2005 to try and make it four Gold Cups."
  1. A tool used for cutting the threads of screws.
- 1894: Machinery (author(s) unknown) (Page 141)
- :"In Fig. i is shown one of the chasers in the position which it occupies in cutting a thread."
- 1918: Thread-cutting Methods: A Treatise on the Operation and Use of Various Tools and Machines for forming screw threads... by Franklin Day Jones (Page 32)
- :"Many screw threads are also finished completely with chasers of this type, although they are not adapted for extremely acurate work unless the teeth are ground after hardening, because the pitch of the teeth is affected more or less by..."
- 1994: Handbook of Dimensional Measurement by Francis T. Farago, Mark A. Curtis (p.467)
- :"The category of thread cutting tools inlcudes both the single-point and multiple-point type lathe cutters."
  1. Someone who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
- 1863: The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work By Virginia Penny
- :"Mr B., heraldic , says there are several processes in making heraldy plates, sketching, engraving, embossing, chasing and burnishing." (page 100)
- :"H. & C., manufacturers of cloth and gilt buttons, say it requires some weeks to learn to chase the gilt buttons, which are done with small metal tools and a hammer. Chasers are paid by the peice, working ten hours a day, and some can earn $1 a day."
- 1971: Living Crafts by George Bernard Hughes - page 36
- :"Flat chasing in sunken or low relief is a technique by which the ornament is formed by beating down the ground from the front. This is done in essentially the same manner as repoussé work, where the ornament appears in high relief, but the design is punched from the face of the silver plate. ... Sometimes, instead of applying a freehand design, the covers the greased suface with a paper pattern in which the design is pricked with pins."
- 1972: Silver by Richard Came - Page 7
- :"Chasing in general can be distinguised from engraving, in that the design can be seen on the reverse or inside of the pieces. Having outlined the pattern on the surface, the cuts and at the same time slightly depresses the surface. A light hammer can be used in this process also."

Cheek

proper noun

The word Cheek is also an old family surname from Anglo-Saxon England that predates the Norman invasion. The Cheek family was among the first to immigrate to the US colonies in the early 17th century. The family crest is a white shield with three red crescents.

chicken wire

noun

(uncountable) a mesh of wire, usually galvanized, with a hexagonal pattern, generally used for making fences, especially for enclosures for small farm animals and pets.
- w:Kenneth Robeson, Kenneth Robeson, The Screaming Man
- :"You'll recall that normally any old hen had sense enough not to run or fly into a chicken wire fence, but the same old hen at the sight of a hawk would lose all judgment about fences, and plunge headlong into it."
- (countable) a type of such material, differentiated by material, coating, wire thickness, width, and mesh size.

chisel

noun

A tool consisting of a slim oblong block of metal which is flattened to a sharp edge at one end and attached to a handle at the other end. It is used mainly to remove parts of stone or wood by placing the sharp edge against the material and pounding the handle with a hammer.

verb

(intransitive) To use a chisel.
(transitive) To work something with a chisel.

She chiselled a sculpture out of the block of wood.

(colloquial) To cheat, to get something by cheating.

chock

noun

Any wooden block used as a wedge or filler
(nautical) Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.

verb

To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
(nautical) To insert a line in a chock.

cinder block

noun

A lightweight building block made from cinders and concrete.

clapboard

noun

A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.
(uncountable) Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.
A clapperboard (used in film production).

claw hammer

noun

Any size hammer with 2 prongs protruding back from the head to allow for removing nails from wood.

cleat

noun

A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
(nautical) A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope.
A spike on the bottom of an athletic shoe meant to give the athlete better traction on a field.

verb

To strengthen with a cleat.

clinch

verb (clinch, es)

To make certain; to finalize.

I already planned to buy the car, but the color was what really clinched it for me.
To fasten securely or permanently.
To bend and hammer the point of a nail so it cannot be removed.

clinker

noun

slag, Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
Hardened volcanic lava.
A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
One who clinks or an item that clinks, hence fetters are also called clinkers.
Clink, derived from clinch, hence one who clinches or that clinches.

clinker-built

adjective

(nautical) (of a wooden vessel) in which the planks of the hull are laid overlapping

closure

noun

an event or occurence that signifies an ending
a feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period
(computing): an abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound variable, bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope
(mathematics): the smallest object that both includes the object as a subset and possesses some given property

clout

noun

A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
A swaddling cloth.
(obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
(colloquial) A blow with the hand.
Influence, effectiveness.

verb

To hit, especially with the fist.

coak

noun

a wooden dowel

(nautical) the brass bearing in the sheave of a block

cock

noun

A male bird, especially a domestic fowl.
Male chicken.
A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
The hammer of a firearm.
(slang, vulgar) The penis.
(curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
(UK, pejorative, slang) A stupid person.
(UK, informal) An informal term of address.

All right,

verb

(transitive) To lift the cock of a firearm; to prepare (a gun) to be fired.
(transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side.
(UK, transitive, slang) To copulate with.

cog

noun

(historical) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.

verb (cog, g, ed)

to cheat at dice
to cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently

coign

noun

A projecting corner or angle.

1922, Kind air defined the coigns of houses in Kildare street. " James Joyce, Ulysses

1964, They lay quietly as the morning advanced its little way, hid snug in their greenwood . " Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun

1977, Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane, ISBN 0-345-34865-6, page 212

: The wall was intricately labored"lined and coigned and serried with regular and irregular groups of windows, balconies, buttresses ...

2007, Stephen R. Donaldson, Fatal Revenant, ISBN 978-0-399-15446-1, page 3

: In sunshine as vivid as revelation, Linden Avery knelt on the stone of a low-walled like a balcony high in the outward face of Revelstone's watchtower.

coil

noun

Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
Common name for any intra-uterine contraceptive device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
(electrical) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.

verb

To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.

A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.

To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.

The sailor coiled the free end of the hawser on the pier.

cold chisel

noun

a narrow chisel, made of hardened, tempered steel, used for cutting stone etc

comb

noun

A toothed implement for grooming the hair.
A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles: crest.
An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.

Quotations

1882, But the comb or half quarter is very general in the Eastern counties, particularly in Norfolk. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, page 207.
1. The top part of a gun"s stock.

verb

To groom the hair with a toothed implement.
To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.

abbreviation

combination

concrete

noun

A building material created by mixing Portland cement, water, and aggregate including gravel and sand.

The road was made of that had been poured in large slabs.

verb (concret, ing)

To cover with or encase in concrete; often constructed as concrete over.

I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.

To solidify.

Josie's plans began concreting once she fixed a date for the wedding.

adjective

particular, Particular, perceivable, real.

Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not evidence that bigfoot exists.

Not abstract.

Once arrested, I realized that handcuffs are , even if my concept of what is legal wasn't.

Made of concrete building material.

The office building had flower boxes out front.

coping

verb

(present participle of, cope)

copper

noun

(uncountable) a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.
(countable) Something made of copper.
The reddish-brown colour/color of copper.

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1. (countable) A copper coin.
2. (context, Australian English, UK) (archaic) A large pot used for heating water or washing clothes over a fire.
Mum would heat the water in a copper in the kitchen and transfer it to the tin bath.

I explain that socks can"t be boiled up in the copper with the sheets and towels or they shrink.

adjective

Made of copper.
Having the reddish-brown colour/color of copper.

cornerstone

noun (plural: cornerstones)

A ceremonial stone set at the corner of a building, joining two exterior walls, and often inscribed with the starting and completion dates of construction, the name of the architect and owner, and other details.

The on the Flatiron Building is set on the Fifth Avenue facade.

By extension, that which is prominent, fundamental, noteworthy, or central.

Exceptional service is the of the hospitality industry.

coulisse

noun

a piece of timber having a groove in which something glides
a side scene of the stage in a theater or the space between the side scenes.

counterbore

noun

A cylindrical recess, typically machined around a hole to admit a screw so that it sits flush with a surface.
The tool with which a counterbore is machined.

countersink

noun

a conical recess, typically machined around a hole to admit a screw so that it sits flush with a surface

couple

noun

Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.

Joe and Amy make a nice .

Two of the same kind connected or considered together (see Usage notes).

They look like a of idiots!

A small number of (see Usage notes) Informal.

Let me have a of slices of pepperoni.

One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
(physics) Two rotations, movements, etc., that are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axis, axes.

verb (coupl, ing)

(transitive) To join two things together.

Now the conductor will the train cars.

coupling

noun

the act of joining together to form a couple
a device that couples two things together
sexual intercourse
(electronics) a connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them

course

noun

An onward movement, progress.

The of events

The itinerary of a race.

The cross-country passes the canal.

A period of learning.

I need to take a French to pep up.

A part of a meal.

We offer seafood as the first .

(sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
(context, navigation) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.

The ship changed its 15 degrees towards south.

(context, navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.

A was plotted to traverse the ocean.

(nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.

Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.

(context, masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.

On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day.

The path taken by a waterway.

verb (courses, coursing, coursed)

To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).

The oil coursed through the engine.

To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey.

cowl

noun

A monk's hood or hooded robe
A mask that covers the majority of the head.
A metal protective covering that covers the engine; also cowling
(nautical) A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below
(nautical) A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge

crack

noun

A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.

A large had formed in the roadway.

A narrow opening.

We managed to squeeze through a in the rock wall.

When forming an opening, a small amount.

Open the door a .

(context, onomatopoetic) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.

The of the falling branch could be heard for miles.

(context, onomatopoetic) Any sharp sound.

The of the bat hitting the ball.

A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.

I didn't appreciate that about my hairstyle.

(vulgar) The space between the buttocks.

Pull up your pants! Your is showing.

(context, Scots language, common in lowland Scotland and Ulster) conviviality; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humourous storytelling; good company.

The was guid.

Thon was guid .

He/she is quare good .

The party was great .

(context, Geordie) Business/events

What's the ?

(computing) A program, password or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
(context, slang) A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.

- w:Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston:
- : I wouldn't use it, if I was going to use it I can afford real cocaine. Crack is wack.
  1. (context, Cumbrian, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
  2. (vulgar, slang) vagina.
  I'm so horny even the of dawn isn't safe!
  1. (colloquial) An opportunity to attempt something.
  I'd like to take a at that game.
- (Ireland) (colloquial) good fun. (See usage note re Scots sense).
- 2006, Patrick McCabe?, Winterwood, Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:
- :By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!

verb

(intransitive) To form cracks.

It's been so dry, the ground is starting to .

(intransitive) To break apart under pressure.

When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.

(intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.

Anyone would after being hounded like that.

(intransitive) To yield under interrogation.

When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.

(intransitive) To make a cracking sound.

The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.

(context, intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.

His voice cracked with emotion.

(context, intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.

His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.

(intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.

"I would too, with a face like that," she cracked.

(computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.

That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can it.

(transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.

The ball cracked the window.

(transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.

You'll need a hammer to a black walnut.

(transitive) To strike forcefully.

She cracked him over the head with her handbag.

(transitive) To open slightly.

Could you please the window?

(transitive) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative)

They managed to him on the third day.

(transitive) To solve a difficult problem. (i, Figurative, from cracking a nut.)

I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.

(transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.

- 2001: Doug McGuinn?, The Apple Indians
- : Hershell cracked his knuckles, a nervous habit that drove Inez crazy....
  1. (transitive, chemistry, informal) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
  Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700 Â°C.
  1. (transitive, colloquial) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
  I'd love to open a beer.
  1. (transitive) To tell (a joke).

adjective

Highly trained and competent.

Even a team of investigators would have trouble solving this case.

cramp

noun

A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
A clamp for carpentry or masonry.

verb

(intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollable, uncontrollably.
1. (transitive) To prohibit movement or expression.

You're cramping my style.

(transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position.

You're going to need to the wheels on this hill.

crampon

noun

An attachment to a shoe or boot that provides traction by means of spikes. Used for climbing or walking on slippery surfaces, especially ice.

crawlspace

noun

(alternative spelling of, crawl space)

crib

noun

A baby"s bed (British and Australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

1889 In two minutes I was kneeling by the child"s , and Sandy was dispatching servants here, there, and everywhere, all over the palace. I took in the situation almost at a glance -- membranous croup! " Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur"s Court.

A bed for a child older than a baby.

1848 a day or two afterwards I learned that Miss Temple, on returning to her own room at dawn, had found me laid in the little ; my face against Helen Burns"s shoulder, my arms round her neck. I was asleep, and Helen was -- dead. " Charlotte Bronte, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=110893069&textreg=2&query=crib&id=BroJanI Jane Eyre.

(nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
A wicker basket; c.f. Moses basket.
The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or Nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.

1835 ...I began to think of my horse. He, however, like an old campaigner, had taken good care of himself. I found him paying assiduous attention to the of Indian corn, and dexterously drawing forth and munching the ears that protruded between the bars. " Washington Irving, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=373857131&textreg=2&query=crib&id=IrvTour A Tour on the Prairies, Chapter 35.

A small room, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
A small, covered structure for confining animals.

1871 A kitchen, a meat-house, a dairy, a with two stalls in the rear, one for the horse the other for the cow, were the out-buildings. " Richard Malcolm Johnston, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=381034272&tag=EAF618&query=crib&id=eaf618 Dukesborough Tales.

A stall for large domestic animals.

(RQ:AV)Where no oxen are, the is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox. " Proverbs 14:4 KJV

A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle

1846 The singers were in a crib of wirework (like a large meat- safe or bird-cage) in one corner " Charles Dickens, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=269586873&tag=Dickens,+Charles,+1812-1870:+Pictures+from+Italy,+1846&query=crib&id=DicPict Pictures from Italy.

A job, a position; (British), an appointment.

1904 He had seen so many lean years of faithful service when the enemy held the corner on all the official cribs that, now in the days of his party"s fatness and of his own righteous reward, the habit of good, honest hustling stuck to him, and he lined up an array of pulls and indorsements that made him swell with happiness every time he went over the list. "Some folks have to die before they can get that sort of thing," he would say as he tapped the bundle of indorsements. Forrest Crissey, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=183688407&tag=Crissey,+Forrest:+Tattlings+of+a+Retired+Politician,+1904&query=crib&id=CriTatt Tattlings of a Retired Politician.

1893 ...but if I have lost my and get nothing in exchange I shall feel what a soft Johnny I have been. " Arthur Conan Doyle, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=279553798&tag=Doyle,+Arthur+Conan:+The+Adventure+of+the+Stockbroker's+Clerk,+1893&query=crib&id=DoyStoc? "The Adventure of the Stockbroker"s Clerk".

A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.

How many thousand of my poorest subjects

Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep,

Nature"s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,

That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down

And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,

Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee

And hush"d with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,

Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,

Under the canopies of costly state,

And lull"d with sound of sweetest melody? " Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2, Act 3, Scene 1

A hovel or additional room off a hovel, or set of such rooms, used for prostitution.

1905 In Los Angeles I saw what was called the "Cribs", one of the most disgraceful conditions. No one stayed there during the day; they were there just for the night only. These poor degraded girls would pay two dollars a night to the owners. " Carry Nation, The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=501910564&textreg=2&query=crib&id=NatUsea Chapter 16.

(slang) One"s residence, or where one normally hangs out.
A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
(italbrac, usually plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.

These cribs are taken from a Google on "foobar".

(rare) The licit or illicit use of a pony or cheat sheet when taking a test; when illicit, a form of academic dishonesty, and even plagiarism.

1917 At school and at college Richard was, to say the least, an indifferent student. And what made this undeniable fact so annoying, particularly to his teachers, was that morally he stood so very high. To "," to lie, or in any way to cheat or to do any unworthy act was, I believe, quite beyond his understanding. " Richard Harding Davis, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=188547597&textreg=2&query=crib&id=DavAdve Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis.

(obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
(context, Cribbage): Short for the card game cribbage.

1913 "May we play , Mrs. Radford?" he asked. " D.H. Lawrence, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=427640224&tag=Lawrence,+D.+H.:+Sons+and+Lovers,+1913&query=crib&id=LawSons Sons and Lovers.

(context, Cribbage): The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.

1814 "And that makes thirty-one; -- four in hand and eight in . -- You are to deal, ma"am; shall I deal for you?" " Jane Austen, Mansfield Park http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=79203748&textreg=2&query=crib&id=AusMans Chapter 2.1.

(italbrac, cryptanalysis) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.<!--This is not an example of the usage of the word:

Eg, during WW2, British cryptanalysts knew that many German messages contained the term "Heil Hitler", and were able to use this pattern to help work out the day"s encryption codes.-->

(NZ, southern) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.

verb (cribb, ing)
(transitive and intransitive)

To place or confine in a crib.

zeugma, Zeugmatically, she cribbed the baby and then the corn.

To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.

I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.

To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
To cram for a particular subject from notes.
(obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of: petty thieving.

It was very easy, Briggs said, to make a galley-slave of a boy all the half-year, and then score him up idle; and to crib two dinners a-week out of his board, and then score him up greedy; but that wasn"t going to be submitted to, he believed, was it? " Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, 1848, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=260418472&textreg=2&query=crib&id=DicDomb Chapter 14.

(rare) To engage in academic dishonesty by the illicit use of a pony or cheat sheet; plagiarism.
(rare) (intransitive) To complain about something.
(phrasal verb) To be cabined and cribbed and confined; to be caged, hemmed in, confined.

But now I am cabin"d, cribb"d, confined, bound in

To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo"s safe? " Shakespeare, Macbeth'', Act 3, Scene 4.

cribbing

noun

The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork.
As a whole, the heavy structure built to support an existing structure from underneath, as with a mineshaft or when raising a building off its foundation, as for moving to another location,

After the Loma Prieta earthquake, they had to put cribbing under portions of San Francisco's Embaracadero Freeway, for fear it would collapse.

If the structure is to be raised in place without relocation, once it is raised to the desired elevation the jacks are replaced with timber cribbing. -- http://www.usace.army.mil/civilworks/cecwp/NFPC/fpslab/ace2-05.htm US Army Corps of Engineers site

The cribbing used to support anything from below or on a side, as with a retaining wall, or to prop up a piece of heavy machinery.
A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure and regarded as an equine form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

verb

Present participle of crib.

cricket

noun

An insect in the order Orthoptera that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.

verb to cricket

(rare) To play cricket.

crinoline

noun

A stiff fabric made from cotton and horsehair
A stiff petticoat made from this fabric
A skirt stiffened with hoops

cripple

noun

(offensive) a person who has severe impairment in his physical ability, abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.

He returned from war a cripple . This use is politically incorrect.

a shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.

verb (crippl, ing)

to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability

The car bomb crippled five passers-by.

(figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy

My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.

to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.

The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.

adjective

crippled, Crippled.

- 1599 " w:William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, s:The_Life_of_Henry_the_Fifth, Henry V, iv 1
- :And chide the tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.

crosscut saw

noun

a handsaw used to cut wood across the grain

crossover

noun

A place where one thing cross, crosses over another.
The means by which the crossing is made.
(w:genetics, genetics) the result of the exchange of genetic material during meiosis.
A blend of multiple style, styles of music, intended to appeal to a wider audience.
An automobile that is a mix of two kinds of automobiles, i.e. the w:Pontiac_Torrent, Pontiac Torrent.
(railroading) A pair of switches and a short, diagonal length of track which together connect two parallel tracks and allow passage between them.

crosstree

noun

(nautical) A light timber or metal spreader fixed athwartships part way up a mast to spread the shrouds from higher up

crotch

noun

The area where something forks or branches, a ramification takes place.

- There is a child sitting in a crotch of that tree.
  1. (slang) The (ventral) area of a person"s body where the legs fork from the trunk.
- He was kicked in his crotch.

Crow

proper noun

A Native American tribe.
The Siouan language of this tribe.

crowbar

noun

an iron or steel bar, often with a flattened end which may also be hook-shaped, to be used as a lever to manually force things apart

crown

noun

A reward of victory or a mark of honor.
A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists, no physical crown, as in the case of the kingdom of Belgium; by analogy such crowns can be awarded to moral persons that don't even have a head, as the mural crown for cities in heraldry
A wreath or band for the head.
Imperial or regal power.
The topmost part of the head.
The highest part a hill.
The top part of a hat.
The raised centre of a road.
The highest part of an arch.
Splendor, finish, culmination.

achievement

Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress)
Specifically, a former British coin worth five shillings.
1. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
(anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.
(dentistry) A prothestic covering for a tooth.
(nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
(nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet

verb

To place a crown on the head of.
To formally declare (someone) a king or emperor.
To declare (someone) a winner.
(medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.

The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.

(context, gaming) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
(context, board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.

"Crown me!" I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.

adjective

Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.

prince

Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.

a fire

curb

noun

A row of concrete along the edge of a road.
A raised margin along the edge of something, as a strengthening.
Something that checks or restrains.
A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action that amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage advantage placing pressure on the poll via the crown piece of the bridle and the chin groove via a curb chain.

verb (curbs, curbing, curbed)

(transitive) To check, restrain or control.
(transitive) To rein in.
(transitive) To furnish with a curb.

cut

noun

An opening resulting from cutting.

Look at this on my finger!

The act of cutting.

He made a fine with his sword.

The result of cutting.

She tried out for the team, but didn't make the .

A share or portion.

The lawyer took a of the profits.

(Cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
(Cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.

The player next to the dealer the deck by placing the bottom half on top.

The manner or style a garment is fashioned in.

I like the of that suit.

A slab, especially of meat.

That"s our finest of meat.

(fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.

verb (cuts, cutting, cut)

To perform an incision, for example with a knife.

I the skin on my arm.

To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.

Would you please the cake?

To separate from prior association; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.

Travis was from the team.

To enter a queue in the wrong place.

One student kept trying to in front of the line.

(context, cinema, audio) To cease recording activities.

After the actors read their lines, the director yelled "Cut!"

To reduce, especially intentionally.

They're going to salaries by fifteen percent.

To form or shape by cutting.

I have three diamonds to today.

To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.

This road cuts right through downtown.

(cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
(colloquial) Not to attend a class, especially when this is not permitted.

I fifth period to hang out with Angela.

To change direction suddenly.

The football player to his left to evade a tackle.

To divide a pack of playing cards into two

If you then I'll deal.

adjective

(participial adjective) Having been .
reduce, Reduced.

The pitcher threw a fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.

Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.

(context, of a gem) carve, Carved into a shape; not raw.
(cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
(bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
(colloquial) circumcised, Circumcised.

cutter

noun

A person or device that cuts
(nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
A heavy-duty motor boat for official use, e.g. a coast-guard cutter
(nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
(cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
(baseball) A cut fastball
(slang) a ten pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
(slang) a person who cuts him or herself, out of angst or masochism; especially when such person writes about this on the internet

cyclone cellar

noun

a domestic underground shelter used as protection from severe winds

cylinder

noun

(geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.

When the two-dimensional curve is a circle, the cylinder is called a circular cylinder. When the axis is perpendicular to the plane of the curve, the cylinder is called a right cylinder. In non-mathematical usage, both 'right and circular are usually implied.

(geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.

- 1898 " w:H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells, http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds The War of the Worlds Ch.4
- :A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the .
  1. A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
  2. A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas.
  3. An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.

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