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Quahaug
- noun - an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians
- Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes
Quaking
- verb - shake with fast, tremulous movements; "His nostrils palpitated"
- shake with seismic vibrations; "The earth was quaking"
Queuing
- verb - form a queue, form a line, stand in line; "Customers lined up in front of the store"
Quoting
- verb - cited as evidence
- name the price of; "quote prices for cars"
- put quote marks around; "Here the author is quoting his colleague"
- refer to for illustration or proof; "He said he could quote several instances of this behavior"
- repeat a passage from; "He quoted the Bible to her"
Racking
- verb - causing great physical or mental suffering; "a wrenching pain"
- draw off from the lees; "rack wine"
- fly in high wind
- go at a rack; "the horses single-footed"
- obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"
- put on a rack and pinion; "rack a camera"
- run before a gale
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- stretch to the limits; "rack one's brains"
- torment emotionally or mentally
- torture on the rack
- work on a rack; "rack leather"
Rafting
- verb - make into a raft; "raft these logs"
- transport on a raft; "raft wood down a river"
- travel by raft in water; "Raft the Colorado River"
Ragging
- verb - break into lumps before sorting; "rag ore"
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations;
- censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
- harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"
- play in ragtime; "rag that old tune"
- treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
Raiding
- verb - characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"
- enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly"
- search for something needed or desired; "Our babysitter raided our refrigerator"
- search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on; "The police raided the crack house"
- take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock; "T. Boone Pickens raided many large companies"
Railing
- verb - a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- complain bitterly
- convey (goods etc.) by rails; "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium"
- criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies"
- enclose with rails; "rail in the old graves"
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat; "They are railing for fresh fish"
- lay with rails; "hundreds of miles were railed out here"
- material for making rails or rails collectively
- provide with rails; "The yard was railed"
- separate with a railing; "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace"
- spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews"
- travel by rail or train; "They railed from Rome to Venice"; "She trained to Hamburg"
Raining
- verb - falling in drops or as if falling like rain; "watched the raining apple blossoms"
- precipitate as rain; "If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding"