creeper vs weed

creeper

noun
  • A person or a thing that crawls or creeps. 

  • A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper. 

  • A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed. 

  • Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen. 

  • Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus. 

  • The lowest gear of a tractor or truck. 

  • A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons. 

  • A person who creeps people out; a creepy person. 

  • A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping. 

  • An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water. 

  • A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon an auto mechanic may lie on their back and gain better access to the underbody of a vehicle. 

  • A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures. 

  • A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing. 

  • A ball that travels low, near ground level. 

  • A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position. 

  • A treecreeper. 

weed

noun
  • A puny person; one who has little physical strength. 

  • Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing. 

  • Tobacco. 

  • Underbrush; low shrubs. 

  • A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted. 

  • Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless. 

  • Cannabis. 

  • Lymphangitis in a horse. 

  • A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from. 

verb
  • To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria. 

  • To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area. 

  • To pilfer the best items from a collection. 

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