(countable) A cage to keep pet or zoological specimen birds in.
(uncountable) A game of chance played with dice; chuck-a-luck.
blackrag
bongrace
bongrace
noun
(obsolete) A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion.
(obsolete) A wide-brimmed hat.
bowgrace
bowgrace
noun
(nautical) A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from damage.
bracings
bracings
noun
plural of bracing
bracking
bricking
bricking
noun
The act of pelting with bricks.
verb
present participle of brick
brockage
brockage
noun
(coin collecting) A type of error coin in which one side of the coin has the normal design and the other side has a mirror image of the same design impressed upon it.
bulgaric
carbungi
carbungi
noun
An Australian cattail (Typha angustifolia)
caribing
clayberg
coberger
cokeburg
crabbing
crabbing
noun
(falconry) The fighting of hawks with each other.
(wool manufacture) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.
The act or art of catching crabs.
verb
present participle of crab
cribbage
cribbage
noun
(card games) A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the cribbage board used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic.
A point scored in this variety of pocket billiards.
A variety of pocket billiards that, like the card game, awards points for pairs that total 15. A player who pockets a ball of a particular number must then immediately pocket the companion ball that brings the number to 15.
cribbing
cribbing
noun
(ethology, equestrianism) A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure; cribbing and windsucking are regarded as equine forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
An act of plagiarism.
As a whole, the heavy structure built to support an existing structure from underneath, as with a mineshaft or when raising a building off its foundation, as for moving to another location,
The cribbing used to support anything from below or on a side, as with a retaining wall, or to prop up a piece of heavy machinery.
The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork.
verb
present participle of crib
crumbing
crumbing
verb
present participle of crumb
curbings
curbings
noun
plural of curbing
gabbroic
gabbroic
adj
Of, pertaining to, or containing gabbro
gorboduc
grayback
grayback
noun
Alternative spelling of greyback
greyback
greyback
noun
(dated) A louse.
(historical, US, colloquial) A Confederate soldier during the US Civil War (because of the grey uniforms).
(regional) Any of various grey birds.
icebergs
icebergs
noun
plural of iceberg
richburg
scarebug
scarebug
noun
(obsolete) A bugbear; an imaginary monster to frighten children.