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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A start in a hunt or race.
  • noun In printing, a mechanism which prevents or throws off impressions while other parts of the printing-machine continue at work or revolving.
  • noun An incidental product.

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

  • noun engraving A start in a hunt or a race.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun UK A start in a hunt or a race.
  • noun A throw taken from the centre line which resumes play after each goal and at the start of each period.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb get rid of
  • verb get rid of

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