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The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.

A bundle or set of such hides.

(obsolete) A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.

The leather made from such hide.

(informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.

(informal, chiefly UK, Australia) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.

(informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A very untidy house or room.

(informal, chiefly UK, dated) A brothel.

(informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity. +

(snatch) (Northern England) To snatch; take up hastily; filch

(obsolete) To hold or keep (together)

(Northern England) To conduct oneself; act

A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.

A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.

(rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.

The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.

(Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.

(gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.

(Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

To perform the kip maneuver.