Things you didn't know had a name

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  1. aglet
    metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon
  2. feat
    a notable achievement
  3. ferrule
    a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting
  4. harp
    a chordophone with strings between the neck and the soundbox
  5. hemidemisemiquaver
    a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note
  6. keeper
    one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals
  7. kick
    drive or propel with the foot
  8. peen
    the part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface
  9. rowel
    a small spiked wheel at the end of a spur
  10. saddle
    a seat for the rider of a horse or camel
  11. wamble
    move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion
  12. zarf
    an ornamental metal cup-shaped holder for a hot coffee cup
  13. ophryon
    the craniometric point in the midline of the forehead immediately above the orbits
  14. crinion
    point where the hairline meets the midpoint of the forehead
  15. trichion
    point where the hairline meets the midpoint of the forehead
Created on Mon May 20 09:16:20 EDT 2013

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