These are the meanings of the letters WHETROCK when you unscramble them.
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Choker (n.)
One who, or that which, chokes.
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Choker (n.)
A stiff wide cravat; a stock.
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Hector (n.)
A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.
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Hector (v. t.)
To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying.
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Hector (v. i.)
To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent.
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Rochet (n.)
A linen garment resembling the surplise, but with narrower sleeves, also without sleeves, worn by bishops, and by some other ecclesiastical dignitaries, in certain religious ceremonies.
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Rochet (n.)
A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
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Rochet (n.)
The red gurnard, or gurnet. See Gurnard.
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Rocket (n.)
A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.
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Rocket (n.)
Damewort.
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Rocket (n.)
Rocket larkspur. See below.
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Rocket (n.)
An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.
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Rocket (n.)
A blunt lance head used in the joust.
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Rocket (v. i.)
To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.
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Rotche (n.)
A very small arctic sea bird (Mergulus alle, or Alle alle) common on both coasts of the Atlantic in winter; -- called also little auk, dovekie, rotch, rotchie, and sea dove.
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Tocher (n.)
Dowry brought by a bride to her husband.
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Troche (n.)
A medicinal tablet or lozenge; strictly, one of circular form.
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Wretch (v. t.)
A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy.
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Wretch (v. t.)
One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch.