to hit with the hand or a tool, weapon, etc.; to strike.

to play a certain percussion instrument by striking.

(lightning) to strike (an object).

(a spirit) to possess a person.

to drive forward (a cart, cattle, plough, etc.) 6) to appear; to come into sight.

to excel another in power, performance, quality, etc.

to remove; to erase; to obliterate.

(fig.) to eat (a good quantity of).

to divide one quantity by another.

to fell by cutting.

to shoot (an arrow).

(rain) to pour down heavily.

to beat one's upper arm or thigh with the slightly hollowed palm, (as to produce a heavy, short sound).

to swindle (money).

the principal top-beam of the roof of a building.

a position or space beside one; a side.

the lower front part of the human body between the chest and thighs; the abdomen; the belly.

a hollow, muscular organ of female mammals in which the ovum is deposited and the embryo and foetus are developed; the womb.

a very young, corn-bearing ear of a plant.

a leather guard for the forearm or the palm worn by an archer.

a large, leaflike part enclosing a flower (of plantain, screwpine, etc.).

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a stroke; a blow.

an animal or plant with the sexual organs of both the male and the female; a hemaphrodite.

a person having both the male and female characteristics.

a hole or hollow in a rock or in the stem or big branch of a tree.

a narrow, deep hole.

that which is hollow.

an empty, worthless thing.

(dial.) sexual intercourse.

the movable structure fixed to the door-frame, window-frame, etc., usu. with hinges, for opening or closing entrance to a building, room, etc.; a door.

the frame of a door.

a place for entering; door, gate, etc.; an entrance.

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a cow-shed.

a place of protection; a shelter.

a place (as a village, hamlet, etc.) where cowherds live.

a little house of the crudest kind.

(in gen.) a dwelling place; a house.

the front yard of a house.

a group of houses or a hamlet.