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A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.

One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.

The valved piston of a lifting pump.

An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc.

Paste used by weavers to dress their webs.

A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.

A cant name for a native in Ohio.

A hound for hunting deer.

A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum.

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The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.

A washing.

The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.

Dandified; foppish.

A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.

A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.

A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.

A contorted expression, as of the face.

To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.

To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.