blunt vs hydrofoil

blunt

noun
  • A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave. 

  • A marijuana cigar. 

  • A short needle with a strong point. 

  • A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip. 

adj
  • Having a thick edge or point; not sharp. 

  • Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech. 

  • Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute. 

  • Hard to impress or penetrate. 

  • Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive. 

verb
  • To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt. 

  • To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of 

hydrofoil

noun
  • A wing attached to the hull of a ship that raises it out of the water when travelling at speed and thus reduces drag. 

  • A vessel equipped with such a device. 

verb
  • To operate or use or ride atop a hydrofoil wing on a hull so equipped. 

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