A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
A skewer.
A misty shower; dew.
The unbranched antler of a young deer.
One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
To be misty; to drizzle.
To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.
Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
A heavy drinker.
A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.
Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak up the money or efforts of others like a sponge).
A type of light cake.
A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, corresponding to the heel.
A person who readily absorbs ideas.
Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
A type of steamed pudding.
Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
A porous material such as sponges consist of.
A nuclear power plant worker routinely exposed to radiation.
To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
To take advantage of the kindness of others.
To get by imposition; to scrounge.
To use a piece of wild sponge as a tool when foraging for food.
To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.
To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.