(n.) One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; -- called also clapper.
(n.) a harness maker.
(n.) One who slaughters worn-out horses and sells their flesh for dog's meat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe it's left him knackered, but when we talk in the backroom of an ad hoc campaign office in the small agricultural town of Thrapston, he answers most questions using standard-issue candidate's boilerplate.
(2) The boys have just done eight gigs in nine nights and they're knackered.
(3) Prey is a gritty, concretey number, and while Reinhardt may be the least-kempt of the cast, every character drinks too much, looks constantly knackered and is therefore entirely believable.
(4) As Petra, another member of the team, finishes mopping the floors, and Andrew, the shift manager, cashes up the tills in the office downstairs, I slump on to a bar stool, knackered.
(5) The broadcaster described feeling like "a sort of knackered version of myself" after the stroke, which left him with mobility issues down his left side.
(6) "And watching the match, Pirlo and most of the Italians looked knackered, even misplacing easy short passes to unmarked colleagues, and either not making runs or making runs that were lazy and easy to catch off-side.
(7) Respected animal welfare organisations have warned governments for several years about the growing trade in knackered horses both between Ireland, the UK, France and Belgium, and between North and South America, and continental Europe.
(8) 71 min: Dean Windass, who looks knackered, is replaced by Caleb Folan.
(9) I lean on Suárez’s shoulder and tell him I’m knackered.
(10) But one staff member said: "It was like a car that looked good from the outside but it was knackered."
(11) ET 1 min: Both teams look knackered, with the exception of Gattuso on the Milan team, who looks like a Tazmanian devil on amphetamines.
(12) It's set in and around Kansas City 2044, but the future looks, frankly, knackered.
(13) 9.26pm GMT Arsenal substitution: Flamini on for Oxlade-Chamberlain, who looks knackered.
(14) It's feeling physically knackered, such as in the knees from years of standing up day after day.
(15) Real Madrid 3-1 Atlético Madrid (Marcelo ET 28) Atlético are knackered.
(16) "I arrived here just knackered, thinking I don't really want to do this," admits Coogan.
(17) He agreed, saying sitting back and absorbing constant attacks knackers you.
(18) Ministers were knackered and most had already disengaged from their jobs.
(19) Perhaps this is the person she truly wants to be – an ordinary mum, bit knackered, only able to get out of the house because her own mum's doing the babysitting – and was just unlucky to fall in love with Prince William rather than the local butcher.
(20) After all, being sleep deprived makes you miserable, knackered and liable to crash the car.
(v. i.) To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.
(n.) A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural.
(n.) The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber.
(n.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain.
(n.) Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
(v. t.) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
(v. i.) To take or get a supply of wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) A modification of the manual glucose oxidase-gum guaiacum method of Shipton, B., Wood, P.J.
(2) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(3) Wood tells clients: Carney said an interest rate hike: “could happen sooner than markets currently expect”.
(4) Also, isotypes to HCHO-HSA resulted from the exposure and no other sources, such as smoking, mobile home residency, and use of wood stoves.
(5) It reveals just how China's appetite for wood has grown in the past decades as a result of consumption by the new middle classes, as well as an export-driven wood industry facing growing demand from major foreign furniture and construction companies.
(6) Wood will play Brinnin, an American poet and literary scenester who was friends with Thomas as well as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.
(7) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
(8) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
(9) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(11) Even if you're being generous, Wood's vision of an alternative can feel like a utopian work in progress.
(12) Erythema gyratum repens is a cutaneous eruption with a unique morphology resembling a wood grain pattern.
(13) We discuss the tasks and present data on financial planning, on putting financial plans into operation, and on monitoring progress toward financial independence for a set of ten demonstration projects sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
(14) Campbell, Ann E. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.
(15) The paper has expanded its distribution to stations including St John's Wood and Putney.
(16) And what the hell do bears get up to in those woods?
(17) I am being prayed for in the woods of northern California!
(18) The contract envisaged freeing up staff time by moving to a ‘self-service’ model where, for example, residents send their own faxes and book their own visits.” The report also discloses that the kiosks are being used by detainees to order their food and can be used in the languages most commonly spoken at Yarl’s Wood.
(19) But we will need the nurseries as they are going to be very important in restocking woods" if varieties that are resistant to ash dieback become available.
(20) Grid reference: 54.5763, -2.8734 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Lower Ddwli Falls, Waterfall Woods, Brecon Beacons In the south-west hills of the Brecon Beacons , near Ystradfellte, you'll find some of the most amazing waterfall plunge pools in Britain.