(n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.
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(v. t.) To hurl, drive, or strike violently; -- often with it as an object.
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(n.) A plowshare.
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(n.) The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.