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waddy
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noun (wadd, ies)
  1. (colloquial) A cowboy.
    • 1992, w:Cormac_McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy?, All the Pretty Horses,
    • : This is how it was with the old waddies, aint it?
wedge
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noun
  1. One of the simple machines; A piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering (w:Wedge (mechanical device), Wikipedia article).
  2. (context, colloquial, UK) A quantity of money.
I made a big fat from that job.
  1. (archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
  2. A group of goose, geese or swans when they are in flight in a V formation.
verb (wedges, wedging, wedged)
  1. To support or secure using a wedge.
I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.
  1. To force into a narrow gap.
He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.
  1. To work wet clay by cutting or knead, kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
whicker
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noun
  1. The soft neigh made by a horse.
verb
  1. Of a horse, to neigh softly, to make a breathy whinny.
whiffletree
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noun
  1. a whippletree
whippletree
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noun
  1. a wooden crossbar for a plough or carriage, pivoted in the middle, from which traces are fastened to a draught animal
wickiup
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noun
  1. a domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some semi-nomadic Native American tribes.
    • 1992: At that time there were still indians camped on the western plains and late in the day he passed in his riding a scattered group of their wickiups propped upon that scoured and trembling waste. " Cormac McCarthy?, All the Pretty Horses
wiggler
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noun
  1. Anything that wiggles
  2. The larva of a mosquito
  1. (physics) A magnet designed to make a beam of charged particles follow a curving path in a accelerator
without
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adverb
  1. (archaic or literary) outside, externally
    • 1904: I knew that someone had entered the house cautiously from . " Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez" (Norton 2005, p.1100)
woolly
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adjective (woolli, er)
  1. Made of wool.
  2. Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
hair
  1. (figurative) Of thinking, principles, etc, based on emotion rather than logic.
That's the sort of thinking that causes wars to start.
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