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noun
An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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noun
oil cake
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, uncountable
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verb
To hang down; to cause something to hang down
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
To arch over (something); to vault.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, obsolete
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verb
To hang in reliance on; to depend (on or upon); to be contingent on.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
To pen; to confine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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History
Borrowed from Middle French pendre (“to hang”), from Late Latin pendĕre, from Latin pendēre.
Compare pen (“to shut in”).
Back-formation from pending.
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
