Short for 民間放送 (minkan hōsō).

Synonym of 落花生 (rakkasei, “peanut”)

a sickle / a sickle-shaped weapon, such as a polearm with a sickle-shaped blade, or a 鎖鎌 (kusarigama)

(Classical Japanese grammar) a verbal conjugation class in which the verb stem ends in r- with four irregular bases: -a, -i, -u, and -e