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noun (plural: wadmals)
- Thick coarse heavily napped wool mostly used in winter clothing for the poor.
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noun
- A ridge or low barrier.
- A raised rib in knit goods or fabric. (As opposed to course)
- The texture of a piece of fabric.
- The outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale)
- A horizontal timber use for support or retaining earth.
- A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
- A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
verb (wal, ing)
- To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale.
- 1832: Owen Felltham, Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political
- :Would suffer his lazy rider to bestride his patie: back, with his hands and whip to his flesh, and with his heels to dig into his hungry bowels?
- 2002: Hal Rothman, Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
- :When faced with an adulthood that offered few options, grinding poverty and marriage to a man who drank too much and came home to on his own family or...no beatings.
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noun
- The state of being bent or twisted out of shape.
- A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood.
- The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof.
- (nautical) A line or cable used in warping a ship.
verb
- To twist or turn something out of shape
- To deflect something from a true or proper course
- To affect something wrongly, unfairly or unfavourably; to bias
- To arrange strands of thread etc so that they run lengthwise in weaving
- (nautical) To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; especially to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour
- 1883: w:Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, w:Treasure Island, Treasure Island
- : We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles around the corner of the island...
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noun - One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape.
| | weaver |
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noun
- One who weaves
| | Webster |
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proper noun
- An English surname.
| | weft |
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noun
- the horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric; the woof
- the yarn used for the weft; the fill
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noun (wikipedia, weight)
- The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth.
- An object used to make something heavier.
- A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
- (weightlifting): A disc of iron, dumbbell, or barbell used for training the muscles.
- (physics) mass (net weight, atomic weight, molecular weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.)
- (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
- (topology) the smallest cardinality of a base
:Compare to mass.
verb
- (transitive) To add weight to something, in order to make it heavier.
- (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
- (context, transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
- (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
- (context, transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
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noun
- A castrated buck goat.
- A castrated ram.
verb (transitive)
- To castrate a male sheep or goat.
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proper noun
- a British surname from a nickname for someone with white hair
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noun
- A pattern of concentric circles.
- (botany) A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
- (zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
- (archaic) A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle, cf. 1460.
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noun
- Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
- (context, cricket, colloquial) A cricket bat
- (context, baseball, slang) an 1800s baseball term meaning the bat
| | Willy |
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proper noun
- (given name, male), diminutive of William.
| | wince |
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noun
- A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
verb (winc, ing)
- (intransitive) To flinch as if in pain or distress.
| | woof |
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noun
- weft, the set of yarns placed crosswise in a loom, interlaced with the warp.
verb
- To make a woofing sound
| | Wool |
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proper noun (wikipedia, Wool, Dorset)
- A town in Dorset, England.
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adjective
- Made of wool.
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noun
- Wool yarn made from long strands of wool, creating fine, smooth fabric.
- 1871 "Yes, young people are usually blind to everything but their own wishes, and seldom imagine how much those wishes cost others," said Mrs. Garth She did not mean to go beyond this salutary general doctrine, and threw her indignation into a needless unwinding of her , knitting her brow at it with a grand air. " George Eliot, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=292303629&tag=Eliot,+George:+Middlemarch:+a+study+of+provincial+life+(1900),+1871&query=worsted+��&id=EliMidd Middlemarch.
- The fabric made from worsted wool.
- 1902 He had tied a bit of white round his neck -- Why? Where did he get it? Was it a badge -- an ornament -- a charm -- a propitiatory act? Was there any idea at all connected with it? Joseph Conrad, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=171509961&tag=Conrad,+Joseph,+1857-1924:+Heart+of+Darkness,+1902&query=worsted+��&id=ConDark The Heart of Darkness.
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adjective
- Pertaining to worsted yarn and the fabric made from it.
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