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Popeling
- - A petty or deputy pope.
Positing
- verb - put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot"
- put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
- take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature"
Pouching
- verb - put into a small bag
- send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels
- swell or protrude outwards; "His stomach bulged after the huge meal"
Pouncing
- verb - move down on as if in an attack; "The raptor swooped down on its prey"; "The teacher swooped down upon the new students"
Pounding
- verb - an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart); "he felt a throbbing in his head"
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle; "pound the roots with a heavy flat stone"
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist"
- move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the room"
- move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast"
- partition off into compartments; "The locks pound the water of the canal"
- place or shut up in a pound; "pound the cows so they don't stray"
- repeated heavy blows
- shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits; "The prisoners are safely pounded"
- strike or drive against with a heavy impact; "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door"
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard";
Powering
- verb - supply the force or power for the functioning of; "The gasoline powers the engines"
Roaching
- verb - comb (hair) into a roach
- cut the mane off (a horse)
Roasting
- verb - cook with dry heat, usually in an oven; "roast the turkey"
- cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added); "the slow roasting took several hours"
- subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"
Rockling
- - Any species of small marine fishes of the genera Onos and Rhinonemus (formerly Motella), allied to the cod. They have three or four barbels.