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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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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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cull
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n 1: the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as
inferior in quality [syn: cull, reject]
v 1: remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick
members of the herd"
2: look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" [syn:
pick, pluck, cull]
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fatal
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adj 1: bringing death [ant: nonfatal]
2: having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that
fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North
Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally
arrived" [syn: fateful, fatal]
3: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire
consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on
Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a
disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if
true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles
Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win
it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black,
calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful]
4: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series
of events" [syn: fatal, fateful]
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grackle
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n 1: glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech
[syn: hill myna, Indian grackle, grackle, Gracula
religiosa]
2: long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black
plumage [syn: grackle, crow blackbird]
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hackle
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n 1: long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and
pheasants
v 1: comb with a heckle; "heckle hemp or flax" [syn: heckle,
hackle, hatchel]
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jackal
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n 1: Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the
dog; smaller than a wolf; sometimes hunts in a pack but
usually singly or as a member of a pair [syn: jackal,
Canis aureus]
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ladle
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n 1: a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used
to transfer liquids from one container to another
v 1: put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle; "ladle
soup into the bowl"
2: remove with or as if with a ladle; "ladle the water out of
the bowl" [syn: ladle, lade, laden]
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ramshackle
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adj 1: in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled
tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old
pier"; "a tumble-down shack" [syn: bedraggled, broken-
down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle,
tatterdemalion, tumble-down]
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shackle
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n 1: a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially
something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) [syn:
shackle, bond, hamper, trammel]
2: a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain
links and closed with a bar
v 1: bind the arms of [syn: pinion, shackle]
2: restrain with fetters [syn: fetter, shackle]
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spackle
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n 1: powder (containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed
with water forms a plastic paste used to fill cracks and
holes in plaster [syn: spackle, spackling compound]
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tabernacle
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n 1: the Mormon temple [syn: Tabernacle, Mormon Tabernacle]
2: (Judaism) a portable sanctuary in which the Jews carried the
Ark of the Covenant on their exodus
3: (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation
[syn: synagogue, temple, tabernacle]
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tackle
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n 1: the person who plays that position on a football team; "the
right tackle is a straight A student"
2: gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and
sails [syn: rigging, tackle]
3: gear used in fishing [syn: fishing gear, tackle, fishing
tackle, fishing rig, rig]
4: (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage; "it
takes a big man to play tackle"
5: (American football) grasping an opposing player with the
intention of stopping by throwing to the ground
v 1: accept as a challenge; "I'll tackle this difficult task"
[syn: undertake, tackle, take on]
2: put a harness; "harness the horse" [syn: harness, tackle]
[ant: unharness]
3: seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries
the ball
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waggle
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n 1: causing to move repeatedly from side to side [syn: wag,
waggle, shake]
v 1: move from side to side; "The happy dog wagged his tail"
[syn: wag, waggle]
2: move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion [syn:
wamble, waggle]
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cul
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n 1: a passage with access only at one end [syn: cul, cul de
sac, dead end]
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mackle
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n 1: a printed impression that is blurred or doubled
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unshackle
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achill
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crackel
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hackel
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hackl
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jackel
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jakel
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kachel
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mackel
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racal
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rachal
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yackel
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yakel
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