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addle
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v 1: mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues" [syn: addle,
muddle, puddle]
2: become rotten; "addled eggs"
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astraddle
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adv 1: with one leg on each side; "she sat astride the chair"
[syn: astride, astraddle]
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bagel
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n 1: (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with
hard crust [syn: bagel, beigel]
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battle
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n 1: a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course
of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of
Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he
got into a real engagement" [syn: battle, conflict,
fight, engagement]
2: an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through
the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for
recognition" [syn: struggle, battle]
3: an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals);
"the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--
Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the
pro- and anti-abortion mobs" [syn: conflict, struggle,
battle]
v 1: battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The
Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We
must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they
battled over the budget" [syn: battle, combat]
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bedraggle
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v 1: make wet and dirty, as from rain [syn: bedraggle,
draggle]
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bradawl
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n 1: an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws
[syn: bradawl, pricker]
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brattle
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v 1: make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes" [syn: clatter,
clack, brattle]
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cackle
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n 1: the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
2: noisy talk [syn: yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter,
cackle]
3: a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
v 1: talk or utter in a cackling manner; "The women cackled when
they saw the movie star step out of the limousine"
2: squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
3: emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
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cattle
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n 1: domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or
age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come
home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of
oxen" [syn: cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus]
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chapel
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n 1: a place of worship that has its own altar
2: a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own
altar; "he was late for chapel" [syn: chapel service,
chapel]
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chattel
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n 1: personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable
property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) [syn:
chattel, personal chattel, movable]
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crackle
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adj 1: having the surface decorated with a network of fine
cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze"
n 1: the sharp sound of snapping noises [syn: crackle,
crackling, crepitation]
2: glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface
[syn: crackle, crackleware, crackle china]
v 1: make a crackling sound; "My Rice Krispies crackled in the
bowl" [syn: crepitate, crackle]
2: make a crushing noise; "his shoes were crunching on the
gravel" [syn: crunch, scranch, scraunch, crackle]
3: to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of
small cracks; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"
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dabble
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v 1: dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
2: play in or as if in water, as of small children [syn:
dabble, paddle, splash around]
3: work with in an amateurish manner; "She dabbles in
astronomy"; "He plays around with investments but he never
makes any money" [syn: dabble, smatter, play around]
4: bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body
of water; "dabbling ducks"
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paddle
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n 1: small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting
balls in various games
2: a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel
3: an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board
4: a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe
or small boat [syn: paddle, boat paddle]
v 1: propel with a paddle; "paddle your own canoe"
2: play in or as if in water, as of small children [syn:
dabble, paddle, splash around]
3: swim like a dog in shallow water
4: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle,
coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]
5: give a spanking to; subject to a spanking [syn: spank,
paddle, larrup]
6: stir with a paddle
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saddle
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n 1: a seat for the rider of a horse or camel
2: a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is
shaped like a saddle) [syn: saddleback, saddle]
3: cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of
the backbone and both loins
4: a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe
5: a seat for the rider of a bicycle [syn: bicycle seat,
saddle]
6: posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl
v 1: put a saddle on; "saddle the horses" [ant: offsaddle,
unsaddle]
2: load or burden; encumber; "he saddled me with that heavy
responsibility"
3: impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged
her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend" [syn:
charge, saddle, burden]
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straddle
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n 1: a noncommittal or equivocal position
2: a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of
the parallel bars
3: the act of sitting or standing astride [syn: straddle,
span]
4: the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or
commodity future) at a given price before a given date;
consists of an equal number of put and call options
v 1: sit or stand astride of
2: range or extend over; occupy a certain area; "The plants
straddle the entire state" [syn: range, straddle]
3: be noncommittal
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unsaddle
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v 1: remove the saddle from; "They unsaddled their mounts" [syn:
unsaddle, offsaddle] [ant: saddle]
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raddle
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n 1: a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking [syn: ruddle,
reddle, raddle]
v 1: twist or braid together, interlace [syn: raddle,
ruddle]
2: mark or paint with raddle
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staddle
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n 1: a base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked
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sidesaddle
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adv 1: on or as if on a sidesaddle; "she rode sidesaddle"
n 1: a saddle for a woman; rider sits with both feet on the same
side of the horse
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gradel
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stadel
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cadell
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chadel
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fadel
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kadel
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madel
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madl
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radel
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schadel
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shadel
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