These are the meanings of the letters OPELY when you unscramble them.
- Lope (imp.)
of Leap.
- Lope (n.)
A leap; a long step.
- Lope (n.)
An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps.
- Lope (v. i.)
To leap; to dance.
- Lope (v. i.)
To move with a lope, as a horse.
- Ploy (n.)
Sport; frolic.
- Ploy (v. i.)
To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
- Pole (n.)
A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.
- Pole (n.)
A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5/ yards, or a square measure equal to 30/ square yards; a rod; a perch.
- Pole (n.)
A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.
- Pole (n.)
A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian.
- Pole (n.)
Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.
- Pole (n.)
One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.
- Pole (n.)
See Polarity, and Polar, n.
- Pole (n.)
The firmament; the sky.
- Pole (v. t.)
To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.
- Pole (v. t.)
To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.
- Pole (v. t.)
To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.
- Pole (v. t.)
To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
- Poly (n.)
A whitish woolly plant (Teucrium Polium) of the order Labiatae, found throughout the Mediterranean region. The name, with sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other related species of the same genus.
- Yelp (n.)
A sharp, quick cry; a bark.
- Yelp (v. i.)
To boast.
- Yelp (v. i.)
To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.