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Dip :: Dip (v. t.) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

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

Header :: Header (n.) A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header..

Plunge :: Plunge (v. i.) To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt..

Plunger :: Plunger (n.) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence.

Plunge :: Plunge (n.) Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties..

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..

Dive :: Dive (v. i.) Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore..

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

Dip :: Dip (v. t.) To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again..

Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.

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

Plunger :: Plunger (n.) The firing pin of a breechloader.

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

Airometer :: Airometer (n.) A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water..

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..

Duck :: Duck (v. i.) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.

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

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. t.) To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck.

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