A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.
A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
A wooden footstool.
An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
To play the game of cricket.
A type of large roofing slate.
A queen apple.
An adult female cat capable of breeding.
A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.
Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
s around the queen (sense 6) of the hive, marked with a pink dot]] A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
A queen scallop.
An excellent woman.
A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
A female monarch.
To provide with a new queen bee.
To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
To promote a pawn to a queen.
To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
To be the queen bee of a colony.