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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In physical geography, a reëntrant corner in an escarpment; an alcove.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Western & Southern U. S. An interior corner; a nook; hence, an angular recess or hollow bend in a mountain, river, cliff, or the like.

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  • WORDIE CHALLENGE: define this word!

    December 13, 2008

  • American military slang term for a series of under-financed and largely inconclusive recon missions in Japan during World War II.

    December 27, 2008