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  • Lanellundefined Offline
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    Lanell
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    #15

    to move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act

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      Urooj.Zafar
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      to cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox

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        #17

        to bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent

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          #18

          to pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask

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            a convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort

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            • Kaiundefined Offline
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              Kai
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              #20

              a tail, or anything projecting like a tail

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              • Tanya Shivariundefined Offline
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                Tanya Shivari
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                #21

                the handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle

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                • Gembakrofeundefined Offline
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                  Gembakrofe
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                  #22

                  the arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse

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                  • Emorynaseapsundefined Offline
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                    #23

                    A long handle or tail; whence, by analogy, start point. But
                    sometimes applied by navigators to any point from which a departure is
                    taken. Also, the expected place of a struck whales rising, after having
                    plunged or sounded.--To start, applied to liquids, is to empty; but if
                    to any weight, as the anchor, c., implies to move.--To start bread.
                    To turn it out of bags or casks, and stow it in bulk.--To start a
                    butt-end. When a plank has loosened or sprung at the butt-end, by the
                    ships labouring, or other cause.--To start a tack or sheet. To slack
                    it off, as in tacking or manœuvring, raise tacks and sheets.

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                      Ernesto
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                      #24

                      To cause an engine to work.

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                      • inetryconydotundefined Offline
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                        #25

                        a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game

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                          a signal to begin (as in a race)

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                            Gornwexy 0
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                            the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)

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                              Gembakrofe
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                              #28

                              play in the starting lineup

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                                Vania
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                                #29

                                the handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle

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                                  Jacobanade
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                                  #30

                                  the curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket

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                                    A long handle or tail; whence, by analogy, start point. But
                                    sometimes applied by navigators to any point from which a departure is
                                    taken. Also, the expected place of a struck whales rising, after having
                                    plunged or sounded.--To start, applied to liquids, is to empty; but if
                                    to any weight, as the anchor, c., implies to move.--To start bread.
                                    To turn it out of bags or casks, and stow it in bulk.--To start a
                                    butt-end. When a plank has loosened or sprung at the butt-end, by the
                                    ships labouring, or other cause.--To start a tack or sheet. To slack
                                    it off, as in tacking or manœuvring, raise tacks and sheets.

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                                      Magaret
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                                      #32

                                      To cause an engine to work.

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