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Holdback :: Holdback (n.) Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle.

Stopcock :: Stopcock (n.) A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc..

Skew :: Skew (n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place..

Contravallation :: Contravallation (n.) A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged..

Whinchat :: Whinchat (n.) A small warbler (Pratincola rubetra) common in Europe; -- called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet..

Checkers :: Checkers (v.) A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them..

Cheque :: Cheque (n.) See Check.

Check :: Check (a.) Checkered; designed in checks.

Scrim :: Scrim (n.) Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc..

Checker :: Checker (v. t.) One who checks.

Lichen :: Lichen (n.) A name given to several varieties of skin disease, esp. to one characterized by the eruption of small, conical or flat, reddish pimples, which, if unchecked, tend to spread and produce great and even fatal exhaustion..

Mate :: Mate (n.) Same as Checkmate.

Freak :: Freak (v. t.) To variegate; to checker; to streak.

Check :: Check (v. i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc..

Deal :: Deal (v. i.) To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with..

Checker :: Checker (n.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors..

Checkless :: Checkless (a.) That can not be checked or restrained.

Snub :: Snub (n.) A check or rebuke; an intended slight.

Stop :: Stop (n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction..

Convoy :: Convoy (n.) A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill..

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