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ulu
a knife with a broad, nearly semicircular blade joined to a short haft at a right angle to the unsharpened side.
jus
n
juice; gravy.
fez
a felt cap, usually of a red color, having the shape of a truncated cone, and ornamented with a long black tassel.
awn
n
a bristlelike appendage of a plant, especially on the glumes of grasses.
zax
n
a hatchetlike tool for cutting and punching nail holes in roofing slate.
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sty
n
a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
byssus
n
a collection of silky filaments by which certain mollusks attach themselves to rocks.
hoy
n
a heavy barge used in harbors.
mew
n
a pen in which poultry is fattened.
kex
n
the dry, usually hollow stem or stalk of various plants, especially of large plants belonging to the parsley family, as cow parsnip or wild chervil.
wud
a
wood mad.
wye
n
a track arrangement with three switches and three legs for reversing the direction of a train.
yob
n
a teenage lout or hooligan.
zoa
n
any individual, or the individuals collectively, produced from a single egg.

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