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A brownish grey color. +

Of a brownish grey color.

A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.

An urgent request or demand of payment.

To ask or beset a debtor for payment.

To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.

A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.

(fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.

An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.

(archaeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.

(dated) To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.

A mound or small hill.

(Imitating a deep bass note, such as that found in suspenseful music.)