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Chuck
- noun -
- a holding device consisting of adjustable jaws that center a workpiece in a lathe or center a tool in a drill
- informal terms for a meal
- pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin
- the part of a forequarter from the neck to the ribs and including the shoulder blade
- throw away; "Chuck these old notes"
- throw carelessly; "chuck the ball"
Phoca
- noun - type genus of the Phocidae: earless seals
Shack
- noun - make one's home in a particular place or community; "may parents reside in Florida"
- move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly; "John trailed behind his class mates"; "The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart"
- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
Shock
- noun - (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor; "loss of blood is an important cause of shock"
- a bushy thick mass (especially hair); "he had an unruly shock of black hair"
- a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses; "the old car needed a new set of shocks"
- a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field; "corn is bound in small sheaves and several sheaves are set up together in shocks"; "whole fields of wheat in shock"
- a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body; "subjects received a small electric shock when they made the wrong response"; "electricians get accustomed to occasional shocks"
- a sudden jarring impact; "the door closed with a jolt"; "all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absor
Shuck
- noun - material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- remove from the shell; "shuck oysters"
- remove the shucks from; "shuck corn"
Theca
- noun - a case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule
- outer sheath of the pupa of certain insects
Thick
- adjective - (of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night"
- (used informally) associated on close terms; "a close friend"; "the bartender was chummy with the regular customers"; "the two were thick as thieves for months"
- (used informally) stupid
- abounding; having a lot of; "the top was thick with dust"
- hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods"
- having a short and solid form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man"
- having component parts closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds"; "a thick forest"; "thick hair"
- in quick succession; "misfortunes come fast and thick"
- not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions; "an
Whack
- noun - a share, as he received a good whack of the loot
- hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy"
- the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack"
- the sound made by a sharp swift blow
Which
- unknown - used with a noun in requesting that its referent be further specified, identified, or distinguished from the other members of a class