mumbling; chewing one's words; chewing (food); squirming; wriggling
on the water; aquatic; waterside; water's edge
device; instrument; vessel; container; ability; capacity
of good omen; auspicious; lucky; auguring well (for); boding well (for)
great laughter; burst of laughter
white; striped mullet fry (Mugil cephalus); (spoken) line (in a play, film, etc.); one's lines; white dragon tile; winning hand with a pung (or kong) of white dragon tiles; Belgium
ship's captain; skipper; length of a ship; boatman
sinking; foundering; getting dead drunk; having too much fun (esp. in a red-light district, etc.) and missing work or neglecting one's duties; staying in one place for a long time
northerly (wind); from the north
(volcanic) crater; caldera; burner (of a boiler)
tear; rip; rent; slit; crack; chasm
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
clanging (of a bell); jangling; ding-dong; continuously; incessantly; one after another
white; correction fluid; white-out
register of names; list of names; roll; register; roster
someone else's hands; someone else's possession; hand (worker); aide; labor; labour
time appointed for meeting (assembling); time one is supposed to meet
continuous; nonstop; consecutive; removing partitions (to create an open space); joining separate rooms into one
to put someone to work; to make someone work
noisily (playing a musical instrument); doing something on and on
annoying; infuriating; provoking; irritating; aggravating; vexing
to content oneself with; to be resigned to (one's fate); to be contented (satisfied) with (one's lot)
breaking the front line; frontal breakthrough
to be useful; to be helpful; to serve the purpose
siege; encirclement; envelopment; surrounding; besiegement
indomitably; undauntedly; resolutely; determinedly
gotcha; alrighty; got it; OK