tearer
31ball-breaker, ball-buster — n a. a very aggressive, dominant or demanding woman b. an excessively hard taskmaster or martinet c. an exhausting, demanding task. Compare ball tearer All these terms were adopted in Britain and Australia in the 1970s from American usage …
32tear — tear1 [tɛ:] verb (past tore; past participle torn) 1》 pull or rip apart or to pieces. ↘make a hole or split in. ↘damage (a muscle or ligament) by overstretching it. ↘(tear something down) demolish something. 2》 (tear something apart)… …
33biter — n. 1. Render, seizer, tearer, taker. 2. Cheat, cheater, misleader, beguiler, cozener, trickster, jockey, knave …
34Friar Tuck — Companion of *Robin Hood in some sources from 1475 onwards, Tuck may have originally been an independent comic figure based on the medieval stereotype of a disreputable friar fond of fighting, hunting, and wenching. He is almost certainly the… …
35der-, heavy basis derǝ-, drē- — der , heavy basis derǝ , drē English meaning: to cut, split, skin (*the tree) Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schinden, die Haut abziehen, abspalten, spalten” Note: Root der , heavy basis derǝ , drē : “to cut, split, skin (*the tree)”… …
36tear — tear1 [ter] vt. tore, torn, tearing [ME teren < OE teran, to rend, akin to Ger zehren, to destroy, consume < IE base * der , to skin, split > DRAB1, DERMA1] 1. to pull apart or separate into pieces by force; rip or rend (cloth, paper,… …
37tear — 1. v. & n. v. (past tore; past part. torn) 1 tr. (often foll. by up) pull apart or to pieces with some force (tear it in half; tore up the letter). 2 tr. a make a hole or rent in by tearing (have torn my coat). b make (a hole or rent). 3 tr.… …
