An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
A light, gentle wind.
Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.
Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
A brief workout for a racehorse.
A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.
To blow gently.
To move casually, in a carefree manner.
To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface.
To buzz.
A tantrum or emotional outburst.
An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the person is overwhelmed by intense, seemingly disproportionate emotions, behaving erratically and becoming unable to mask.
Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and potentially in radiation escaping.
A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
Computer engineers were at a loss last night to explain why the Government had been hit by arguably the worst electronic meltdown in the history of Whitehall. https://web.archive.org/web/20041209011615/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=587262