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gig collapse: a booking for musicians; "they played a gig in New Jersey"; small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood; tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain; long and light rowing boat; especially for racing; a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting

hightail collapse: leave as fast as possible; "We hightailed it when we saw the police walking in"

breeze collapse: a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck"; to proceed quickly and easily; blow gently and lightly; "It breezes most evenings at the shore"

fly-by-night collapse: a debtor who flees to avoid paying; ephemeral; "the symphony is no fly-by-night venture"; of businesses and businessmen of questionable honesty; "a fly-by-night operation"

spinner collapse: fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water; board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game; someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)

stratum collapse: one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)

corruptible collapse: capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"

ephemeral collapse: lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"

catapult collapse: medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles; a device that launches aircraft from a warship; shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult; "the enemy catapulted rocks towards the fort"

skim collapse: reading or glancing through quickly; a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid; "there was a thin skim of oil on the water"; used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed; "yogurt made with skim milk"; "she can drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter"; read superficially; remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of milk"; coat (a liquid) with a layer; cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"

evade collapse: use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid; "The con man always evades"; practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades"

aperture collapse: an man-made opening; usually small; a device that controls amount of light admitted; a natural opening in something

haw collapse: the nictitating membrane of a horse; utter `haw'; "he hemmed and hawed"

run away collapse: escape from the control of; "Industry is running away with us all"

scape collapse: erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip

dibble collapse: a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs; make a hole with a wooden hand tool; "dibble the ground"; plant with a wooden hand tool; "dibble Spring bulbs"

arboretum collapse: a facility where trees and shrubs are cultivated for exhibition

dugout collapse: either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game

foxhole collapse: a small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire

jungle collapse: a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival; an impenetrable equatorial forest

taxi collapse: travel slowly; "The plane taxied down the runway"; ride in a taxicab

whiz collapse: a buzzing or hissing sound as of something traveling rapidly through the air; "he heard the whiz of bullets near his head"

tier collapse: one of two or more layers one atop another; "tier upon tier of huge casks"; "a three-tier wedding cake"; something that is used for tying; "the sail is fastened to the yard with tiers"; a worker who ties something; any one of two or more competitors who tie one another

shell collapse: the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc; ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun; the housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has a walnut case"; a very light narrow racing boat; a rigid covering that envelops an object; "the satellite is covered with a smooth shell of ice"; the exterior covering of a bird's egg; the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts; the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals; remove from its shell or outer covering; "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels"; look for and collect shells by the seashore; hit the pitches of hard and regularly; "He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning"; fall out of the pod or husk; "The corn shelled"

inlet collapse: an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)

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