to sustain a living by eating produce that one harvests or hunts from the countryside.

Defeated; in a cowardly or miserable manner. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tail, between, one's, legs.

delay in communications or information processing caused by signal propagation being limited by the speed of light.

A thermal lance.

A tool that burns iron in an oxygen-rich environment to create very high temperatures for cutting.

plural of estate in land

Even someone with limited abilities or opportunities is dominant over, and considered special by, those who have even fewer abilities and opportunities; the value of any ability depends on its prevalence.

(law) An interest in land that is or may become possessory of a physical area of land, almost always with a set geographic location; real estate; real property.

plural of constructed language

(UK, birdwatching) The red-legged partridge.