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String :: String (n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it..

Hayrake :: Hayrake (n.) A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses..

Rakeshame :: Rakeshame (n.) A vile, dissolute wretch..

Water Crake :: Water crake () The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia..

Parrot :: Parrot (n.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases..

Shelduck :: Shelduck (n.) The sheldrake.

Skitty :: Skitty (n.) A rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and the moor hen..

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.

Drake :: Drake (n.) Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank..

Mandrake :: Mandrake (n.) A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. It was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region..

Sheldfowl :: Sheldfowl (n.) The common sheldrake.

Racleness :: Racleness (n.) See Rakelness.

Kraken :: Kraken (n.) A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus..

Skieldrake :: Skieldrake (n.) The oyster catcher.

Rake :: Rake (n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc..

Rake :: Rake (v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft..

Skeelgoose :: Skeelgoose (n.) The common European sheldrake.

Strain :: Straik (n.) A strake.

Bergander :: Bergander (n.) A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.

Wale :: Wale (n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc..

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