(rail transport, principally US) The V-shaped device on the front of a locomotive (or other large vehicle) shaped so as to push objects on the tracks out of the way, to prevent major damage to the train.

(US, informal) Baked beans (various different recipes).

(intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear. / (intransitive, archaic) To crouch in general. / (transitive) To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.

(obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.

Somebody with whom one works.

A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell. / (by extension, dated) Any gastropod of the genus Cypraea; its shell.

An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex.

(countable) A hide of a cow. / (uncountable) Any quantity of hides of cows. / (uncountable) Leather made from the hide of cows. / A coarse whip made of untanned leather.

(transitive) To flog with a cowhide.

A person living in the city who dresses in clothes that suggest a film of the western genre.