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Potshots
- noun - a shot taken at an easy or casual target (as by a pothunter)
- criticism aimed at an easy target and made without careful consideration; "reporters took potshots at the mayor"
Ratchets
- noun - mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction
- move by degrees in one direction only; "a ratcheting lopping tool"
Ratitate
- - Of or pertaining to the Ratitae.
Retinite
- - An inflammable mineral resin, usually of a yellowish brown color, found in roundish masses, sometimes with coal.
Retracts
- verb - formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
- pull away from a source of disgust or fear
- pull inward or towards a center; "The pilot drew in the landing gear"; "The cat retracted his claws"
- use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
Retreats
- noun - (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
- (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
- (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat; "the disorderly retreat of French troops"
- a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- an area where you can be alone
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"
- move away, as for privacy; "The Pope retreats to Castelgondolfo every summer"
- move back; "The glacier retrogrades"
- pull back or move away or backward;
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation; "the religious retr
Ritenuto
- adjective - gradually decreasing in tempo
Rotalite
- - Any fossil foraminifer of the genus Rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation. See Illust. under Rhizopod.
Rotavate
- unknown - break up or till (soil) using a rotavator.
"the field has been ploughed and rotavated"
Definitions from Oxford Languages
- To mechanically till soil.