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  • station
    [W Car.; OED to assign (a soldier) to a certain place] v. to reside: My mother station in Nassau (COB). (Black)
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  • starvation
    [OED deprivation of food] n. hard times; famine: 1918 It was a very starvation. . . "Why don't you go and
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  • star
    [cf. Guy. star man present favorite admirer (Yansen 26); Jam. Rasta star guys, men (Pollard 1980:20)] n. best friend (among
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  • staple
    [OED, storehouse for provisions obs. → 1688] n. barn: 1966 In the staple he catch one of the biggest [goats] (Crowley
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  • stand-foots
    [W Car.; now identified with stand, but probably from stern (nautical); cf. bow foots fore legs] n. pl. 1. the
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  • standing polices
    [cf. Brit. sleeping policemen bumps in road to prevent speeding, and POLICE policeman] n. pl. trees along the roadside, because they stop
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  • stand
    v. 1. [Atlantic; cf. OED with force of copula in stand godfather, stand alone, etc.; cf. Brit. dial. North stand (of circumstances) to
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  • stanch, stench
    [cf. OED stanch, Scots stench that which stops or allays obs. → 1790; stanch, staunch to stop the flow of (water); to
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  • stall (up)
    [OED to keep (an animal) in a stall, esp. for fattening; to take away (a person's) appetite, to satiate (now dial)]
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  • stain bark
    [from red-brown bark] n. a shrub, Melochia tormentosa: 1905 (Shattuck 259). = VELVET BUSH (San Sal.)
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