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A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
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.
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.
The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.
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The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
A washing.
Dandified; foppish.
A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.