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1. Tap: noun a device by which a flow of liquid or gas from a pipe or container can be controlled. Look for a model with digital output temperature control, which delivers consistently hot water from the tap , regardless of flow rate. 2. Aircraft: noun an airplane, helicopter, or other machine capable of flight. Launched with this jumbo team aboard for a test flight, the aircraft failed to gain height. 3. Barbed wire: noun wire with clusters of short, sharp spikes set at intervals along it, used to make fences or in warfare as an obstruction. A tall, impenetrable wall with barbed wire and sharp metal spikes on top surrounded the entire complex. 4. Crop: noun; a cultivated plant that is grown as food, especially a grain, fruit, or vegetable. 5. Fermentation: noun; the chemical breakdown of a substance by bacteria, yeasts, or other microorganisms, typically involving effervescence and the giving off of heat. 6. Silos: noun a tower or pit on a farm used to store grain. Just as I imagined it, with cows everywhere and lots of farms, silos , grain elevators, lakes - the whole nine yards. an underground chamber in which a guided missile is kept ready for firing. This system allowed Looking Glass to transmit launch codes to the intercontinental ballistic missiles in their underground silos should ground launch control centers become disabled. 7. Drawbar: noun a bar on a vehicle to which something can be attached to pull it or be pulled.
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1. Tap: noun

a device by which a flow of liquid or gas from a pipe or container can be controlled.Look for a model with digital output temperature control, which delivers consistently hot water from the tap , regardless of flow rate.

2. Aircraft: noun

an airplane, helicopter, or other machine capable of flight.Launched with this jumbo team aboard for a test flight, the aircraft failed to gain height.

3. Barbed wire: noun

wire with clusters of short, sharp spikes set at intervals along it, used to make fences or in warfare as an obstruction.A tall, impenetrable wall with barbed wire and sharp metal spikes on top surrounded the entire complex.

4. Crop: noun; a cultivated plant that is grown as food, especially a

grain, fruit, or vegetable.

5. Fermentation: noun; the chemical breakdown of a substance by bacteria, yeasts, or other microorganisms, typically involving effervescence and the giving off of heat.

6. Silos: noun

a tower or pit on a farm used to store grain.Just as I imagined it, with cows everywhere and lots of farms, silos , grain elevators, lakes - the whole nine yards.

an underground chamber in which a guided missile is kept ready for firing.This system allowed Looking Glass to transmit launch codes to the intercontinental ballistic missiles in their underground silos should ground launch control centers become disabled.

7. Drawbar: noun

a bar on a vehicle to which something can be attached to pull it or be pulled.They come from carelessness, no cover on PTO, working in the night or the day, tipping trailers under ESB cables, riding on drawbars , and a host of other practices.

one of a number of bars that may be pulled out to control harmonics on an electric organ.In the Hammond organ, the fundamental and up to eight harmonics were available and were controlled by means of drawbars and preset keys or buttons.

8. Spreaders: noun

a device used for spreading or scattering a substance over a wide area.They mix them with soil and distribute them with a device similar to a fertilizer spreader .

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9. Cab: noun

The driver's compartment in a truck, bus, or train.

10. Shaft: noun

a long, narrow part or section forming the handle of a tool or club, the body of a spear or arrow, or a similar implement.the shaft of a golf club

11. Field: noun

an area of open land, especially one planted with crops or pasture, typically bounded by hedges or fences.a wheat field

12. Grain: noun; wheat or any other cultivated cereal crop used as food.

13. Preservation: noun; the action of preserving something.

14. Degree: noun; the amount, level, or extent to which something happens or is present.

15. Harvest: noun

the process or period of gathering in crops.helping with the harvest

16. Batch: noun

a quantity or consignment of goods produced at one time.a batch of cookies

17. Media: noun; an ancient region of Asia, southwest of the Caspian Sea, corresponding approximately to present-day Azerbaijan, northwestern Iran, and northeastern Iraq.

18. Paperwork: noun; routine work involving written documents such as forms, records, or letters.

19. Amount: noun

a quantity of something, typically the total of a thing or things in number, size, value, or extent.the sport gives an enormous amount of pleasure to many people

20. Treadle: noun

a lever worked by the foot that imparts motion to a machine.She had a treadle sewing machine and mended everything.


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