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Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel.

Capulin :: Capulin (n.) The Mexican cherry (Prunus Capollin).

Elope :: Elope (v. t.) To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart..

Trunkfish :: Trunkfish (n.) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish..

Spinner :: Spinnaker (n.) A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind..

Retrieve :: Retrieve (n.) The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term.

Dram :: Dram (n.) As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison..

Ocypodian :: Ocypodian (n.) One of a tribe of crabs which live in holes in the sand along the seashore, and run very rapidly, -- whence the name..

Cursores :: Cursores (n. pl.) A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders.

Venturesome :: Venturesome (a.) Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act..

Rundle :: Rundle (n.) A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.

Truncated :: Truncated (a.) Cut off; cut short; maimed.

Pitot''s Tube :: Pitot's tube () A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height to which the fluid rises in the tube; a kind of current meter..

Tail :: Tail (n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.

Billethead :: Billethead (n.) A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

Peach :: Peach (n.) A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, / Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible..

Tun :: Tun (n.) A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt..

Induviate :: Induviate (a.) Covered with induviae, as the upper part of the trunk of a palm tree..

Trot :: Trot (n.) Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.

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