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back road
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noun ((plural): back roads)
  1. Secondary roads, little used roads, roads through rural areas sometimes used as alternate routes to main roads.
    There was too much traffic on the highway, so I used a , it was very scenic but I had to keep the speed down.
barouche
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noun
  1. (vehicles) Four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with collapsible half-hood, two double seats facing each other, and an outside seat for the driver.
bed
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noun
  1. A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, to sleep on.
  2. A prepared spot to spend the night in, as in camping bed.
  3. A garden plot, as in "bed of roses".
  4. The bottom of a lake or other body of water, as in "sea bed".
  5. An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, or other sessile shellfish is found.
  6. A flat surface or layer on which something else is to be placed, as a "bed of lettuce".
  7. A deposit of ore, coal etc.
  8. A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship, ship"s floor.
verb (bed, d, ed)
  1. To go to a sleeping bed.
  2. To put oneself to sleep.
  3. To settle, as machinery.
  4. To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
  5. To set out plants in a garden bed.
  6. (Slang) To have sexual intercourse.
belt
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noun
  1. A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
As part of the act, the fat clown's broke, causing his pants to fall down.
  1. A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
Keep your fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride.
  1. A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
The motor had a single that snaked its way back and forth around a variety of wheels.
  1. A powerful blow, often made with a fist.
After the bouncer gave him a solid to the gut, Simon had suddenly had enough of barfighting.
  1. (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product or feature (Corn Belt, Bible Belt).
verb
  1. (transitive) To encircle.
The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.
  1. (transitive) To fasten a belt.
Edgar belted himself in and turned the car's ignition.
The rotund man had difficulting belting his pants, and generally wore suspenders to avoid the issue.
  1. (transitive) To hit with a belt.
The child was remanded to state custody when the lacerations on her back where her parents had belted her in punishment were revealed.
  1. (transitive) To sing in a loud manner.
He belted out the national anthem.
  1. (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
He belted down a shot of whisky.
  1. (context, transitive, slang) To hit someone or something.
The angry player belted the official across the face, and as a result was ejected from the game.
  1. (intransitive) To move very fast
He was really belting along.
Berlin
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proper noun
  1. The capital city of Germany.
  2. One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation.
bicycle
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noun
  1. A vehicle that has two wheels, one behind the other, a steering handle, and a saddle seat or seats and is usually propelled by the action of a rider"s feet upon pedals.
  2. A traveling block used on a cable in skidding logs.
  3. The best possible hand in lowball.
verb (bicycl, es)
  1. To travel or exercise using a bicycle.
blinker
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noun
  1. Something that blinks, as the turn signal of an automobile.
  2. A blinder for horses; a bridle flap to limit side view, whatever obstructs sight or discernment: q:Matthew Green, WikiQuote?
  3. (rare) eyelid, Eyelid.
body
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noun (bodies)
  1. The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
  1. The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
The is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
  1. A corpse.
Her was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
  1. The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremity, extremities (limbs, head, tail).
The boxer took a blow to the .
  1. The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessory, accessories.
The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the of the car was in remarkable shape.
  1. (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
Penny was in the scullery, pressing the of her new dress.
  1. An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
The local train operating company is the managing for this section of track.
  1. A group of men or people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
I was escorted from the building by a of armed security guards.
  1. A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
We have now amassed a of evidence which points to one conclusion.
  1. Any physical object or material thing.
All bodies are held together by internal forces.
  1. Substance; physical presence.
We have given to what was just a vague idea.
  1. Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
The rioja, sadly, lacked .
  1. (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.W:Subroutine, W
brougham
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noun (plural: broughams)
  1. a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, designed in 1839. It had an open seat for the driver in front of the closed cabin for two or four passengers.
  • 1891: "Yes," he continued, glancing out of the window. "A nice little and a pair of beauties." " Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Scandal In Bohemia" (Norton 2005 p.12)
    1. an automobile, a sedan without a roof over driver's seat.
buckboard
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noun
  1. A simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-pulled wagon designed for personal transport as well as for transporting animal fodder and domestic goods, often with a spring-mounted seat for the driver.
buggy
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noun (buggies)
  1. A small horse-drawn cart.
  2. A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
  3. (colloquial) A shopping cart or trolley.
adjective
  1. Infested with insects.
  2. (computing) Containing programming errors.
bulk
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noun
  1. size, mass or volume
  2. the major part of something
  3. (in food) fibre
  4. (nautical) a ship's cargo
  5. (bodybuilding): excess body mass, especially muscle
  6. In brane cosmology, a hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
verb
  1. to be, or appear to be, massive
  2. to grow in size; to swell or expand
adjective
  1. being large in size, mass or volume
bus
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noun (pl=buses, pl2=busses)
  1. (context, automotive, vehicle) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
  2. An electrical conductor serving as a common connection for two or more circuits.
verb (busses or buses, bussing or busing, bussed or bused)
  1. (context, transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus.
  2. (context, transitive, automotive, transport) To transport students to school, often to achieve racial integration.
  3. (context, intransitive, automotive, transport) To travel by bus.
abbreviation bus.
  1. business
bypass
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noun (bypasses)
  1. a road that passes around something, such as a residential area
  2. a circumvention
  3. a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture
  4. an electrical shunt
  5. (medicine) an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass
verb (bypass, es)
  1. to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass
  2. to ignore the usual channels or procedures
byway
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noun
  1. a road that is not frequently travelled
  2. (context, by extension) an unpopular or arcane field of study
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