Alternative form of terracotta

Alternative form of terracotta

(Britain, slang) Sexual activity in a public lavatory, especially homosexual activity between men.

(medicine, uncountable) An oral dryness often associated with certain medicines and recreational drugs. / A snake, Agkistrodon piscivorus, the water moccasin.

(chemistry, physics) The characteristic change in optical rotatory dispersion and/or circular dichroism in the vicinity of an absorption band of a substance.

Alternative spelling of terracotta

(Scotland) Alternative form of cotter (“peasant inhabiting a cottage”)

(mechanical engineering) A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together. / (informal) A cotter pin.

(transitive) To fasten with a cotter.

(historical) A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.