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The Wind blows and we Wind up clocks....How many other words have such different meanings....?

This is your homework for tonight .....There is also the same sounding words that are spelt different too,two ,to ....
Ill start you off....Steak and Stake .....these too even have the same letters just arranged different....:) 

Posted - June 28, 2018
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  •   June 29, 2018 4:36 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Sorry.....I should have told you earlier, but felt for sure that you already realized that...:( 
      June 29, 2018 4:49 PM MDT
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  • 34283
    Trump..
    1. Blow of a horn (shofar)
    2. A spade in card game Spades
    3. To overpower
    4. Surname
    5. False charges (trumped-up)
      June 29, 2018 11:05 AM MDT
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  • 16791
    It's also UK slang for fart.
      June 29, 2018 12:17 PM MDT
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  • 423
    Not many words whose homonym is its own antonym though, but the fifth verse of the poem 'Reinforced Concrete' includes such an instance.

    'Reinforce the world with concrete

    Make it stronger, squarer, right.

    Rip God's handiwork asunder,

    Raze the trees and raise the blight.'


    Who would have guessed?

      June 29, 2018 11:57 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    Not me.  :)
      June 29, 2018 4:27 PM MDT
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  • 423
    Ah, so good guessing is not one of your attributes Ms Jugs. But surely you must have others?
      July 1, 2018 11:06 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    Raze and raise have different meanings.
    Its not for me to do the screenings.
    My attributes are never hidden .
    There out in front and that's a given...
    Now what you said was very well put.
    But all I've got is this ear Foot ....

    :)D 
      July 1, 2018 6:40 PM MDT
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  • 423
    Jumping Jehoshaphat Jugs - I'm blown away! This forum really does have talent oozing out of every corner.
      July 2, 2018 11:37 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    Im not surprised.
    With all such Gusto .
    If youve got the wind .
    Then of course you must go.
    Im being breezy,so you can tell. 
    But I don't stand up straight in strong winds as well. 

    :)
      July 2, 2018 1:07 PM MDT
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  • 16791
    Bow
    F**k
    Gear
    Crack
      June 29, 2018 12:05 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Ones a laugh in Ireland..... :) 
      June 29, 2018 4:28 PM MDT
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  • 16791
    Craic. Not quite the same thing, although pronounced the same. I was thinking fracture and cocaine.
      June 29, 2018 5:43 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    I never knew it was spelt that way in Ireland...:)
      June 29, 2018 6:28 PM MDT
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  • 423
    As an aside, and quite by chance, 'craic' is a name by which seaweed was once known in the Channel Islands. At least that's the pronunciation, I don't know about the spelling though.
      July 1, 2018 11:09 AM MDT
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