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stud🔊

A male animal, especially a stallion, kept for breeding.

📑 Synonyms: sire

A female animal, especially a broodmare, kept for breeding.

(by extension) A group of animals kept for breeding, also of locomotives.

💬 Quotations
He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories.

An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.

A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.

(colloquial) A sexually attractive, promiscuous male.

📑 Synonyms: he-man hunk stallion

(chiefly African-American, LGBTQ, slang) A sexually dominant lesbian.

A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.

💬 Quotations
Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems / And studs of pearl.
A belt of straw and ivy buds, / With coral clasps and amber studs.

(jewelry) A style of earring where the decorative element is mounted on a straight post.

(construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.

(obsolete) A stem; a trunk.

(poker) A type of poker in which the player cannot discard, and some of the cards are exposed.

📑 Synonyms: stud poker

(engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.

(engineering) A stud bolt.

An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.

To set with studs; to furnish with studs.

To decorate as a stud does.

To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.

To set (something) over a surface at intervals.