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Slue :: Slue (v. t.) To turn about a fixed point, usually the center or axis, as a spar or piece of timber; to turn; -- used also of any heavy body..

Burden :: Burden (v. t.) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable)..

Cawk :: Cawk (n.) An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar..

Gravid :: Gravid (a.) Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety..

Sockdolager :: Sockdolager (n.) That which finishes or ends a matter; a settler; a poser, as a heavy blow, a conclusive answer, and the like..

Capstan :: Capstan (n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket..

Porter :: Porter (n.) A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar..

Lug :: Lug (v. i.) To pull with force; to haul; to drag along; to carry with difficulty, as something heavy or cumbersome..

Crash :: Crash (n.) Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels..

Slight :: Slight (superl.) Not stout or heavy; slender.

Blow :: Blow (n.) A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port..

Yaw :: Yaw (v. i. & t.) To steer wild, or out of the line of her course; to deviate from her course, as when struck by a heavy sea; -- said of a ship..

Cudgel :: Cudgel (n.) A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon..

Lug :: Lug (n.) The act of lugging; as, a hard lug; that which is lugged; as, the pack is a heavy lug..

Squeteague :: Squelch (n.) A heavy fall, as of something flat; hence, also, a crushing reply..

Barytes :: Barytes (n.) Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. See Barite..

Estramacon :: Estramacon (n.) A straight, heavy sword with two edges, used in the 16th and 17th centuries..

Knock :: Knock (v. i.) To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another..

Lead :: Lead (n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide..

Woolstock :: Woolstock (n.) A heavy wooden hammer for milling cloth.

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