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noun
A method of preparing fowl and poultry, where the back is split apart and the bird is flattened down the breast, looking somewhat like a toad; spatchcock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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noun
A type of piquant sauce flavored with tarragon, lemon or vinegar, and other spices, that is traditionally served with a fowl cooked in the crapaudine style.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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noun
A form of torture in which the hands and feet are tied together behind the back, forcing the victim's body to bow, and sometimes accompanied by additional forms of torture, such as suspending the body by the point where the hands and feet are tied or beating.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
An ulcer on the coronet of a horse, sheep, or donkey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
A toadstone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A device for calibrating a pendulum consisting of a dilatable plate that produces an artificial tilt of a clinometer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
An heirloom variety of beet originating in France, and considered possibly the oldest beet cultivar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The socket in which the pivot of a door turns.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rare, uncountable
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History
Etymology tree French crapaud Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnus French -in Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-eh2 Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -am Old French -e French -e French -ine French crapaudinebor. English crapaudine Borrowed from French crapaudine.
