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1. Ackermann, n. View full entry 1898
...attrib. Designating a steering mechanism designed so that, when a vehicle turns, both the outer and the inner wheels remain perpendicular to the radius of the turn, even though the outer...
2. Ada, n.2 View full entry 1979
...(The name of) a high-level programming language used chiefly in real-time control systems, e.g. for aircraft navigation....
3. Aldis, n. View full entry 1902
...a kind of anastigmatic compound lens that is a doublet consisting of a front lens which is convex on one side and concave on the other and a back lens which is...
4. American, n. and adj. View full entry 1568
...An indigenous inhabitant of (any part of) the Americas; an American Indian. Now only with modifying word, as indigenous American, original American, etc.; see also Native American...
5. America's Cup, n. View full entry 1869
...The trophy or title awarded to the winner of an international yacht match which now involves a series of races between teams representing yacht clubs but usually identified by their country of...
6. ˈApex, n.2 (and adj.) View full entry 1971
...A system whereby airline tickets for scheduled flights may be bought at a reduced rate on certain conditions (usually including payment in advance and a specified interval between outward and return flights);...
7. A.S.L.E.F. | ASLEF | Aslef, n. View full entry 1914
...The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, a British trade union; nowadays, the trade union to which train drivers belong....
8. AWACS, n. View full entry 1966
...An airborne long-range radar system for detecting other aircraft, including low-flying ones, and controlling weapons directed against them....
9. awning, n. View full entry 1624
...A roof-like covering of canvas or similar material, used as a shelter from sun, rain, etc.; esp. above the deck of a vessel....
10. badge, n. View full entry 1440
...Originally: a heraldic symbol worn as an identifying mark by a knight and his retainers (= cognizance5a; sometimes more fully badge of arms). In later use: any...
11. baffle, v. View full entry 1548
...To subject to public disgrace or infamy; spec. to disgrace a perjured knight with infamy. Obs....
12. ballahoo, n. View full entry 1815
...A type of fast-sailing two-masted schooner. Also used as a term of contempt for a sluggish, slovenly, or ungainly vessel (cf. ballyhoo, ballyhoo of blazes). Now rare...
13. † ballatoon, n. View full entry 1725
...A heavy barge or boat used on Russian rivers for the transport of timber....
14. basket, n. View full entry a1300
...A vessel of wickerwork, made of plaited osiers, cane, rushes, bast, or other materials....
15. bat, n.2 View full entry ?c1225
...A stick, a club, a staff for support and defence. (In 1387 applied to a crosier.) arch. Still dial. (Kent, Sussex, etc.) = staff, walking-stick....
16. beach, n. View full entry c1535
...(Usually collect., formerly occas. with pl.): The loose water-worn pebbles of the sea-shore; shingle....
17. Beaufort scale, n. View full entry 1858
...A series of numbers from 0 to 12 assigned by Captain (later Admiral Sir Francis) Beaufort to indicate the strength of the wind from a calm, force 0, to a hurricane, force...
18. becket, n.2 View full entry 1769
...A simple contrivance, usually a loop of rope with a knot on one end and eye at the other, but also a large hook, or a wooden bracket, used for confining loose...
19. beep, n. View full entry 1951
...The sound made by a horn on a motor car or other vehicle; a short high-pitched sound such as is emitted by an echo-sounder, a radar device, etc. Also attrib....
20. Belisha, n. View full entry 1934
...Used attrib. with reference to officially recognized pedestrian crossings in the United Kingdom of a type introduced when Hore-Belisha was Minister of Transport and now largely superseded....
