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21/04/2025

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BALLASTAGE

A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port orharbor.

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TRUNCAL

Of or pertaining to the trunk, or body.

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LIDLESS

Having no lid, or not covered with the lids, as the eyes;hence, sleepless; watchful.A lidless watcher of the public weal. Tennyson.

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PETTICHAPS

See Pettychaps.

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TRAFFICKER

One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.

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BUSHHAMMER

A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, withpyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cutinto a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone.

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TROCHING

One of the small branches of a stag's antler.

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RESUSCITANT

One who, or that which resuscitates. Also used adjectively.

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NEMOPHILY

Fondness for forest scenery; love of the woods. [R.]

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CANTONMENT

A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to abody of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest foran army; quarters.

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MULTILOQUENCE

Quality of being multiloquent; use of many words;talkativeness.

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CURLYCUE

Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen onpaper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper.[Sometimes written carlicue.] [ Colloq. U.S.] To cut a curlycue, tomake a flourish; to cut a caper.I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a curlycue with my rightfoot. McClintock.