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Enwallow :: Enwallow (v. t.) To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow..

Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy..

Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out..

Fishhawk :: Fishhawk (n.) The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard..

Ducker :: Ducker (n.) One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver..

Plunge :: Plunge (v. i.) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations..

Souse :: Souse (v. t.) To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.

Ram :: Ram (n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press.

Estrapade :: Estrapade (n.) The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously..

Immerse :: Immerse (v. t.) To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge..

Plunge :: Plunge (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.

Spear :: Spear (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod..

Dip :: Dip (v. i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke..

Dive :: Dive (v. i.) To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid..

Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend..

Emerge :: Emerge (v. i.) To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity..

Dowse :: Dowse (v. t.) To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse..

Plunged :: Plunged (imp. & p. p.) of Plung.

Alfet :: Alfet (n.) A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

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