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anchor
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n 1: a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving
[syn: anchor, ground tackle]
2: a central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is
his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on
soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm" [syn:
anchor, mainstay, keystone, backbone, linchpin,
lynchpin]
3: a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which
several correspondents contribute [syn: anchor,
anchorman, anchorperson]
v 1: fix firmly and stably; "anchor the lamppost in concrete"
[syn: anchor, ground]
2: secure a vessel with an anchor; "We anchored at Baltimore"
[syn: anchor, cast anchor, drop anchor]
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are
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n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn:
are, ar]
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banker
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n 1: a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank
2: the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game
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blinker
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n 1: a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to
send messages [syn: blinker, flasher]
2: a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the
direction in which the vehicle is about to turn [syn:
blinker, turn signal, turn indicator, trafficator]
3: blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of
the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on
either side [syn: winker, blinker, blinder]
v 1: put blinders on (a horse)
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bunker
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n 1: a hazard on a golf course [syn: bunker, sand trap,
trap]
2: a large container for storing fuel; "the ship's bunkers were
full of coal"
3: a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground
[syn: bunker, dugout]
v 1: hit a golf ball into a bunker
2: fill (a ship's bunker) with coal or oil
3: transfer cargo from a ship to a warehouse
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canker
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n 1: a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized
damage to the bark
2: an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)
[syn: canker, canker sore]
3: a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of;
"racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation";
"according to him, I was the canker in their midst" [syn:
pestilence, canker]
v 1: become infected with a canker
2: infect with a canker
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clinker
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n 1: a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or
coal or charcoal fire [syn: cinder, clinker]
2: a hard brick used as a paving stone [syn: clinker, clinker
brick]
v 1: clear out the cinders and clinker from; "we clinkered the
fire frequently"
2: turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in
burning
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conker
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n 1: the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut [syn:
buckeye, horse chestnut, conker]
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conquer
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v 1: to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent
uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's
desires" [syn: suppress, stamp down, inhibit,
subdue, conquer, curb]
2: take possession of by force, as after an invasion; "the
invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants";
"The army seized the town"; "The militia captured the castle"
[syn: appropriate, capture, seize, conquer]
3: overcome by conquest; "conquer your fears"; "conquer a
country"
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cur
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n 1: an inferior dog or one of mixed breed [syn: cur,
mongrel, mutt]
2: a cowardly and despicable person
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drinker
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n 1: a person who drinks liquids
2: a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to
excess) [syn: drinker, imbiber, toper, juicer] [ant:
abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker]
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dunker
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n 1: an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it; "he
was a dunker--he couldn't eat a doughnut without a cup of
coffee to dunk it in"
2: a basketball player who is able to make dunk shots
3: an adherent of Baptistic doctrines (who practice baptism by
immersion) [syn: Dunker, Dunkard, Tunker]
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hunker
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v 1: sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth
while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect
themselves from the sandstorm" [syn: squat, crouch,
scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down]
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spelunker
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n 1: a person who explores caves [syn: potholer, spelunker,
speleologist, spelaeologist]
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junker
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n 1: member of the Prussian aristocracy noted especially for
militarism
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plunker
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n 1: (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly
[syn: plunk, plunker]
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wanker
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n 1: terms of abuse for a masturbator [syn: tosser, jerk-
off, wanker]
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younker
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n 1: a young person (especially a young man or boy) [syn: young
person, youth, younker, spring chicken]
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reconquer
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v 1: conquer anew; "The country reconquered the territory lost
in the previous war"
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stotinka
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n 1: 100 stotinka equal 1 lev in Bulgaria
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casablanca
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n 1: a port on the Atlantic and the largest city of Morocco
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glinka
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n 1: Russian composer (1804-1857) [syn: Glinka, Mikhail
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka]
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debunker
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drunker
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lunker
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punker
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treblinka
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yunker
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zunker
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curr
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bonker
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cuenca
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brunker
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jinker
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stonker
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