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beginning with letter P
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pasture
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noun
  1. Land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.
  2. ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
verb (pastures, pasturing, pastured)
  1. To move animals into a pasture to graze.
pen
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noun
  1. An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
There are two steers in the third .
  1. A place to confine a person; a prison cell.
They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the again.
  1. (baseball) The bullpen.
Two righties are up in the .
verb (pens, penning, penned or pent)
  1. (transitive) To enclose in a pen.
piggy
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noun (plural piggies)
  1. (hypocoristic) A pig (the animal).
This little went to market.
  1. (context, mildly, derogatory) A pig, a greedy person.
Can't you finish your dinner? You've been a , haven't you?
pigpen
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noun
  1. A pigsty; an enclosure where pigs are kept.
  2. Something extremely dirty or messy.
This room is a . When are you going to clean it?
pigsty
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noun (pigsties)
  1. A shelter where pigs are kept.
  2. (slang) A dirty or very untidy place.
pinfold
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noun
  1. An open enclosure for animals, especially for stray ones.
verb
  1. (transitive) To confine animals in a pinfold.
poler
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noun
  1. A horse harnessed alongside the shaft or pole of a vehicle
porker
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noun
  1. A pig, espcially on being fattened and raised for slaughter.
  2. (context, slang, pejorative) An obese person.
  3. (context, UK, slang) A lie (from Cockney rhyming slang pork pie).
pound
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noun
  1. A unit of weight: of 16 ounces in the avoirdupois system (= 453.592 g) or of 12 troy ounces in the troy weight, troy system (= 373.242 g). Its symbol is lb.
  2. pound-force, Pound-force.
  3. The symbol
  4. A unit of currency used in Cyprus; Egypt; Lebanon; the United Kingdom and its dependency, dependencies; and formerly in the Republic of Ireland (which now uses the euro) and Israel (which now uses the sheqel). Its symbol is <big>£</big>.
verb
  1. (transitive) To strike (something or someone) hard repeatedly.
  2. (transitive) to crush to pieces; to pulverize
  3. (transitive) (slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
You really pounded that beer!
produce
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noun
  1. (defn, English)
verb (produc, es)
  1. (defn, English)
provender
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noun
  1. Food, especially for livestock.
  2. An edible material that provides sustenance.
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