A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.
A police officer.
A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
A Christmas cracker.
A firecracker.
A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).
An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person.
The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope and produces a cracking sound.
A bird, the dotterel.
Flatus.
Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)
The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
The ability to breathe easily.
Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".
The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
To perceive or follow by scent.
To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
To travel in a way that is not straight.
To cover or surround with something coiled about.
To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.