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noun
- A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks.
- (Usually paired with 'ashes'), garments worn as an act of penance. Now often used figuratively.
- After he realised the gravity of his crime he spent some time wearing sackcloth and ashes.
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| sacking |
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noun
- Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks).
- The farmer grabbed a handful of and rubbed down the cow.
verb
- (present participle of, sack)
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| sailcloth |
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noun - A strong, durable fabric suitable for making sails for ships or boats. This term can be used even when the fabric is used for other purposes.
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| sanglier |
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noun - (obsolete) A full-grown wild boar.
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| sateen |
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noun
- A type of cotton cloth with a shiny surface and dull back, woven using the technique that, when applied to silk or nylon, results in cloth called satin.
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| satin |
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noun - A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen).
adjective - Smooth and shiny, glossy. Particularly describing a type of paint.
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| satinet |
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noun
- a faux satin usually made of synthetic fiber or cotton.
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| Saxony |
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proper noun
- One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation.
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| say |
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verb (says, saying, said)
- To pronounce
- Please your name slowly and clearly.
- To recite
- Martha, will you grace?
- To communicate, either verbally or in writing
- He said he would be here tomorrow.
- To indicate in a written form
- The sign says it's 50 kilometres to Paris.
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| scatter rug |
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noun
- a small rug, especially one of several used as floor covering
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| scour |
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verb
- To clean, polish, or wash something by scrubbing it vigorously.
- He scoured the burner pans, to remove the burnt spills.
- To search an area thoroughly.
- They scoured the scene of the crime for clues.
- (veterinary medicine) Of livestock, to suffer from diarrhea.
- If a lamb is scouring, do not delay treatment.
- To move swiftly.
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| scrim |
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noun - A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,.
- A large military scarf, usually camouflage coloured and used for concealment when not used as a scarf.
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| scutch |
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noun
- An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them
verb (scutch, es)
- to beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibers from flax stalks
- 2005: "Scutching": the title of subsection 32.10.3 in section 32.10 "PROCESSING FIBER FLAX" " John Martin, Warren Leonard, David Stamp, Richard Waldren, Principles of Field Crop Production (4th Edition)
- 1976: His prey was more often the over-scutched huswives, the threepenny whores with well-whipped backs, both from the beadle and their own hot-blooded clients. " Robert Nye, Falstaff
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| selvage |
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noun - The edge of a woven fabric, where the weft (side-to-side) threads run around the warp (top to bottom) threads, creating a finished edge.
- Any edge of fabric finished so as to prevent raveling.
- The border on a sheet of postage stamps.
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| sendal |
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noun
- A light silk cloth
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| Serge |
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proper noun
- (given name, male), the French form of Sergius.
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| sericulture |
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noun
- the cultivation of silk
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| Set |
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proper noun (also Seth)
- An ancient Egyptian god, variously described as the god of chaos, the god of thunder and storms, or the god of destruction.
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| sett |
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noun (plural setts)
- The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.
- The pattern of distinctive threads and yarns that make up the plaid of a Scottish tartan.
- A small. square-cut piece of quarried stone used for paving and edging.
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| shaft |
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noun
- the long narrow body of a spear or arrow
- a beam or ray of light
- any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, the drive shaft of an engine
- the main axis of a feather
- (lacrosse) the long narrow body of a lacrosse stick
- a long narrow passage sunk into the earth, for mining etc
- a vertical passage housing a lift or elevator
- a ventilation or heating conduit
- a malicious act, as in "to give someone the shaft"
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| shag |
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noun
- Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
- Coarse shredded tobacco.
- A type of rough carpet pile.
verb (shagg, ing)
- (intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.
- (transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
- To chase after; especially : to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play
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| shed |
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noun
- (obsolete) A distinction or dividing-line.
- (obsolete) A parting in the hair.
- (obsolete) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
verb (sheds, shedding, shed)
- (context, transitive, archaic) To part or divide.
- A metal comb her golden hair.
- (context, transitive, archaic) To pour; to make flow.
- I have the blood of our enemies.
- (transitive) To allow to flow or fall.
- I didn't many tears when he left me.
- (transitive) To radiate, cast, give off
- Can you any light on this problem?
- (context, transitive, intransitive) To cast off, to let fall, be divested of.
- When we found the snake, it was in the process of shedding its skin.
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| sheer |
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noun
- (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
- (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
verb
- (nautical) To swerve from a course.
- To shear. (rare/archaic?)
adjective (er, more)
- (context, textiles) Very thin or transparent.
- Her light, dress caught everyone's attention.
- pure, Pure; unmixed; being only what it seems to be.
- I think it is genius to invent such a thing.
- This poem is nonsense.
- Straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular.
- It was a drop of 180 feet.
adverb
- Clean, clean; quite; at once.
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| shiner |
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noun - (countable) One that shines.
- (countable) (italbrac, colloquial) A bruised eye.
- (countable) A silver minnow.
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| shive |
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noun
- A slice, especially of bread.
- 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
- :In my cool room with the shutters shut and the thin shives of air and light coming through the slats, I cried myself to sleep in an overloud selfpitying transport.
- (obsolete) A sheave.
- A beam or plank of split wood.
- A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole.
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| short |
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noun
- A short circuit.
- (baseball) shortstop
- Jones smashes a grounder between third and .
verb
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit
adjective
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically dimensions.
- A word or phrase that can be said or written in less time to represent another word or phrase.
- "Tater" is for "potato".
- (context, of a person) With less height
- (cricket, of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman
- (cricket, of a fielder or fielding position) relatively close to the batsman
adverb
- (cricket) of a cricket ball, to bounce relatively far from the batsman so that it bounces higher than normal; opposite of full
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| shrink |
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noun
- (slang) A psychiatrist or therapist, also referred to as a head-shrinker.
verb (shrinks, shrinking, shrank, shrunk)
- (intransitive) To contract, to become smaller, especially through exposure to cold and moisture.
- This garment will when wet.
- (transitive) To cause something to shrink (intransitive)
- (intransitive) To attempt to avoid an unwanted or intimidating duty; as, to shrink from a task.
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| shrinkage |
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noun
- the act of shrinking, or the proportion by which something shrinks
- the loss of merchandise through theft
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| Silesia |
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proper noun
- A region of central Europe.
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| silk |
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noun
- (uncountable) A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).
- The thread was barely visible.
- (uncountable) A fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers.
- I had a small square of , but it wasn't enough to make what I wanted.
- The gown worn by a Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel
- (colloquial) a Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel
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| simple |
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noun
- (context, jargon, medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
adjective (simpler, simplest)
- having few parts or features; having no special features
- (colloquial) feeble-minded.
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| sinnet |
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noun
- (nautical) a braided cord
- 2004: Last night, the men were gathered on the foredeck laying up grass into for ropes by lantern-light & the prohibition on "supernuminaries" on the foredeck seemed not to apply. " David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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| skein |
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noun
- A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread round a fifty-four inch reel.
- (italbrac-colon, Wagon Making) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
- (italbrac-colon, zoology, provincial England) A group of wild fowl, (e.g. goose, geese, goslings) when they are in flight.
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| skirting |
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verb
- (present participle of, skirt)
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| sleazy |
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adjective (sleazi, er)
- Marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.
- Dishonorable; base; vulgar; raunchy
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| sliver |
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noun
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
- A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.
- Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings.
- (New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
verb
- (transitive) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
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| slug |
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noun (wikipedia, Slug (disambiguation), slug)
- Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell
- (physics, rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
- A discrete quantity of one fluid that flows though the line surrounded by another.
- A bullet.
- A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
- A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
- A title, name or header
- (slang) A lazy person, a sluggard.
- (context, television editing) A black screen
- (context, typesetting) A piece of typemetal imprinted by a Linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error
verb (slug, g, ed)
- To drink quickly; to gulp.
- To down a shot.
- (transitive) To hit very hard.
- He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.
- The batter slugged the ball out of the park.
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| spin |
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noun
- circular, Circular motion.
- (physics) A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.
- A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
- (cricket) rotation, Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
- A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing and rolling in a spinning motion.
verb (spins, spinning, spun or span, spun)
- To turn around quickly.
- To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
- 2006. In every administration there will be spokesmen and public affairs officers who try to spin the news to make the president look good. But this administration is trying to spin scientific data and muzzle scientists toward that end. — The Washington Post Editorial, The Politics of Science, Thursday, February 9, 2006; Page A22 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/08/AR2006020801991.html.
- (context, cricket, of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
- (context, cricket, of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.
adjective
- (cricket) Describing a spin bowler, or his style of bowling.
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| spindle |
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noun
- (spinning) a distaff, the rod used for spinning and then winding natural fibres, especially wool.
- a rod which turns, or on which something turns.
- a worldwide tree of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
- an upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.
verb (spindl, ing)
- To make into a long tapered shape.
- To impale on a device for holding paper documents.
- Do not fold, or mutilate this document.
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| spinning frame |
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noun
- a machine that draws and twists fibres and then winds it onto spools or spindles
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| spinning jenny |
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noun (wikipedia, Spinning Jenny)
- an early spinning machine having multiple spools
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| spinning wheel |
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noun
- a domestic device for making yarn or thread; having a single spindle and a wheel driven by hand or foot
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| spool |
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noun
- A device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
verb
- (computing): To send files to some device or program (a "spooler" or demon) that puts them in a queue for later processing of some kind. Without qualification, the spooler is the "print spooler" controlling output of jobs to a printer; but the term has been used in connection with other peripherals (especially plotters and graphics devices) and occasionally even for input devices.
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| sprang |
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verb
- (simple past of, spring)
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| staple |
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noun
- A basic or essential supply.
- A basic food.
- Rice is a in the diet of many cultures.
verb (stapl, ing)
- (transitive) To secure with a staple.
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| stapler |
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noun
- A device which binds together sheets of paper by driving a thin metal staple through the sheets and simultaneously folding over the ends of the staple against the back surface of the paper. Compare staple gun.
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| stretch |
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noun
- An act of stretching.
- I was right in the middle of a when the phone rang.
- To say crossing the street was brave was quite a stretch.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- That rubber band has quite a bit of stretch.
- A course of thought which similarly diverts from 'straight' logic
- A segment of a journey or route.
- It was an easy trip except for the last , which took forever.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- A length of time
- He did a 7-year in jail.
verb (stret, ch, es)
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- First, the skin over the frame of the drum.
- (transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- I managed to my coffee supply a few more days.
- (transitive) To try to make too much of.
- To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of "brave" considerably.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point.
- (intransitive) To extend one"s limbs or body in order to stretch the muscles.
- I woke up, yawned and stretched.
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| stripe |
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noun
- A long, straight region of a single colour.
- (in plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
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| substantive |
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noun
- (grammar) A word that names or refers to a person, place, thing, or idea. noun, Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, present participles, determiners, and numerals may all function as substantives in English and many other languages.
adjective
- Of the essence or essential element of a thing; as, "substantive information".
- Having substance and prompting thought.
- Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right; as, "substantive law".
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| suede |
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noun
- A type of soft leather, made from calfskin, with a brushed texture to resemble fabric, often used to make boots, clothing and fashion accessories.
- (modifying a noun and functioning as an adjective) Made of suede.
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| suiting |
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verb
- (present participle of, suit)
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| Swiss |
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proper noun
- A person from Switzerland or of Swiss descent.
adjective
- Of, from, or pertaining to Switzerland, the Swiss people or the Swiss language.
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| swivel |
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noun
- (Mechanical): A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.
- (military) A small piece of ordenance, turning on a point or swivel; -- called also swivel gun. --w:Wilhelm.
- (slang) strength of mind or character that enables one to overcome adversity; confidence; will -- Bob ain't got no swivel.
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