heavy
Webster Dictionary
heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught
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mace
Webster Dictionary
a heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor
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slug
(ʌg)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
any heavy piece of crude metal.
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shot
(ʃɒt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a heavy metal ball used in shot-putting contests.
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gib
(ɪb)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
(in carpentry or ironwork) a heavy metal strap for fastening two members together.
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shot put
(shot put)
Princeton's WordNet
an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball is hurled as far as possible
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drawbar
(ˈdrɔˌbɑr)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a heavy metal bar attached to the rear of a tractor and used as a hitch for pulling machinery.
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wrecker's ball
(ˈrɛk ər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a heavy metal ball swung on a cable from a crane and used in demolition work.
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lead
Webster Dictionary
one of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide
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shot
(shot)
Princeton's WordNet
sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put
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chock
(ʃɒk)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a heavy metal fitting on a deck or wharf that serves as a fairlead for a cable or chain.
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hammer
(hammer)
Princeton's WordNet
a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw
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jaws of life
(ʒɔd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a heavy-duty tool that can cut through metal or pry apart sections of it: used esp. to free people trapped in wrecked vehicles.
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hammer throw
(hammer throw)
Princeton's WordNet
an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible
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clang
(æŋ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
to give out a loud, resonant sound, as that produced by a large bell or two heavy pieces of metal striking together.
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placer
(ˈplæs ər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a natural concentration of heavy metal particles, as gold or platinum, in sand or gravel deposited by rivers or glaciers.
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mercury
(mercury, quicksilver, hydrargyrum, Hg, atomic number 80)
Princeton's WordNet
a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
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hydrargyrum
(mercury, quicksilver, hydrargyrum, Hg, atomic number 80)
Princeton's WordNet
a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
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hg
(mercury, quicksilver, hydrargyrum, Hg, atomic number 80)
Princeton's WordNet
a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
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quicksilver
(mercury, quicksilver, hydrargyrum, Hg, atomic number 80)
Princeton's WordNet
a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
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penicillamine
(penicillamine, Cuprimine)
Princeton's WordNet
a drug (trade name Cuprimine) used to treat heavy metal poisoning and Wilson's disease and severe arthritis
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atomic number 80
(mercury, quicksilver, hydrargyrum, Hg, atomic number 80)
Princeton's WordNet
a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
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cuprimine
(penicillamine, Cuprimine)
Princeton's WordNet
a drug (trade name Cuprimine) used to treat heavy metal poisoning and Wilson's disease and severe arthritis
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lead
(ɛd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a heavy, comparatively soft, malleable, bluish-gray metal, sometimes found in its natural state but usu. combined as a sulfide, esp. in galena.
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chelation
(chelation)
Princeton's WordNet
(medicine) the process of removing a heavy metal from the bloodstream by means of a chelate as in treating lead or mercury poisoning
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chock
Webster Dictionary
a heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc
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pick
(ɪk)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a heavy tool consisting of a curved metal head tapering to a point at one or both ends, mounted on a wooden handle, and used for breaking up soil, rock, etc.
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stamp
Webster Dictionary
to crush; to pulverize; specifically (Metal.), to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill
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rings
(rings)
Princeton's WordNet
gymnastic apparatus consisting of a pair of heavy metal circles (usually covered with leather) suspended by ropes; used for gymnastic exercises
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metal detector
(metal detector)
Princeton's WordNet
detector that gives a signal when it detects the presence of metal; used to detect the presence of stray bits of metal in food products or to find buried metal
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