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nouna former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be lockedtype of:
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nouna frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod
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nouna frame that supports a boat while it is under construction
Definition that contains stocks
- crash a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
- bull try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying
- collapse a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
- registrar a person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the company
- subscribe offer to buy, as of stocks and shares
- stockbroker an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds
- fireweed tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant
- golden maidenhair mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia
- digger wasp solitary wasp that digs nests in the soil and stocks them with paralyzed insects for the larvae
- typhaceae perennial marsh plants with creeping rootstocks and long linear leaves