Fang vs Wordgame - What's the difference?
fang | wordgame |
(transitive, dialectal, or, archaic) To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.
* J. Webster
(transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To take; receive with assent; accept.
(transitive, obsolete, as a guest) To receive with hospitality; welcome.
(transitive, obsolete, a thing given or imposed) To receive.
(dialectal) To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.
A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
* Evelyn
(mining) A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.
(rare, in the plural) Cage-shuts.
(nautical) The coil or bend of a rope; (by extension) a noose; a trap.
(nautical) The valve of a pump box.
a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh
(in snakes) a long pointed tooth for injecting venom
(rare) To strike or attack with the fangs.
To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
* Philips
As nouns the difference between fang and wordgame
is that fang is a grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold while wordgame is alternative form of lang=en.As a verb fang
is to catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.As a proper noun Fang
is collective A people of western Africa.fang
English
(wikipedia fang)Etymology 1
From (etyl) fangen, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- He's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged .
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) fang, .Noun
(en noun)- the protuberant fangs of the yucca
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 3
From an abbreviation of fangtooth, from (etyl) *.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(en verb)- chariots fanged with scythes
