(Northumbria, chiefly in place names) Alternative form of dene.

One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman. / A drug dealer, one who peddles illicit drugs. / A particular type of stock broker or trader.

(transitive) To make deaf, either temporarily or permanently. / (transitive) To make soundproof. / (transitive, rare, dialectal, sometimes figuratively) To stun, as with noise.

(cricket) The bat when held with a light grip such that it gives when the ball strikes it, and the ball loses momentum and falls to the ground.

(transitive, cricket) To play (the ball) with a dead bat.

(ball games) The ball when dead and out of play.

(medicine, historical) A pandemic outbreak of bubonic plague throughout Europe and most of Asia in the 14th century that killed nearly half the population of Europe and Asia.

(automotive) A position in the four-stroke combustion process wherein the piston is at the topmost point in its stroke. This can either be during the compression phase or the combustion phase.

Alternative spelling of deadbeat

Alternative spelling of dead weight