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To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. 3. To mark with tar, as sheep. (more info) 1. To beat with a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the

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To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. 3. To mark with tar, as sheep. (more info) 1. To beat with a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters. Pepys.

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  • STROKER
    One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
  • THRASH; THRESH
    derschen, G. dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. , Sw. tröska, Dan. tærske, Goth. , Lith. traszketi to rattle, Russ. treskate to burst, crackle, 1. To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of with a flail; to beat off,
  • BASTE
    To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. 3. To mark with tar, as sheep. (more info) 1. To beat with a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the
  • TICKLE
    to tickle, D. kittelen, G. kitzlen, OHG. chizzilon, chuzzilon, Icel. 1. To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted. If you
  • TICKLENBURG
    A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the West Indies.
  • STRIKE
    Strucken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly proceed, flow, AS. strican to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strihhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off
  • TICKLE-FOOTED
    Uncertain; inconstant; slippery. Beau. & Fl.
  • THRASHEL
    An instrument to thrash with; a flail. Halliwell.
  • STROKESMAN
    The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest. Totten.
  • TICKLENESS
    Unsteadiness. For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness. Chaucer.
  • POMMELION
    The cascabel, or hindmost knob, of a cannon.
  • THUMPING
    Heavy; large.
  • THUMP
    1. The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like. The distant forge's swinging thump profound. Wordsworth. With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down, one by one. Coleridge. 2. A blow or knock,
  • CUDGELER
    One who beats with a cudgel.
  • THRASHING
    a. & n. from Thrash, v. Thrashing floor, Threshing-floor, or Threshing floor, a floor or area on which grain is beaten out. -- Thrashing machine, a machine for separating grain from the straw.
  • THRASHER; THRESHER
    A large and voracious shark , remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher,
  • THUMPER
    One who, or that which, thumps.
  • STRIKER
    1. One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wieds the sledge. 2. A harpoon; also, a harpooner. Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try
  • STROKE
    Struck.
  • POMMEL
    A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form; as: The knob on the hilt of a sword. Macaulay. The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow. The top . Chaucer. A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.
  • CRAWL STROKE
    A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
  • BETHUMP
    To beat or thump soundly. Shak.
  • BY-STROKE
    An accidental or a slyly given stroke.
  • LAMBASTE
    To beat severely. Nares.
  • SPLIT SHOT; SPLIT STROKE
    In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.
  • BEPOMMEL
    To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing. Thackeray.
  • STICKLEBACK
    Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling,
  • BANSTICKLE
    A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.
  • COUNTERSTROKE
    A stroke or blow in return. Spenser.
  • OVERSTRIKE
    To strike beyond.
  • BARBASTEL
    A European bat , with hairy lips.

 

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