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(Informal) A child's doll.

Any of several tropical and subtropical live-bearing fishes of the genus Poecilia of the Americas, often kept in home aquariums.

A low mobile platform that rolls on casters, used for transporting heavy loads.

A powdered form of MDMA.

Such a platform as used by one working underneath a motor vehicle.

A woman or girl, especially of low status.

A hand truck.

(slang) An effeminate male, a male homosexual.

A wheeled apparatus used to transport a movie camera steadily along the ground or along a track.

Pure MDMA powder.

A movie shot made by a camera moving steadily on a dolly; a tracking shot.

A mollemoke.

A small locomotive, as for use in a railroad yard or on a construction site.

A female cat, a she-cat usually spayed

A wooden implement for stirring clothes in a washtub.

A bird, the wagtail.

A tool used to hold one end of a rivet while the opposite end is being hammered to form a head.

A molly bolt.

A small piece of wood or metal placed on the head of a pile to prevent damage to the pile while it is being driven.

A fish of the genus Poecilia, except for those known as guppies.

To move a dolly in a specified direction

To engage in (male) homosexual activity with.

A doll.

Same as Mollemoke.

(cooking) A roughly cylindrical wooden object used as a base when molding pie crust.

A pet or colloquial name for Mary.

A contrivance for stirring:

Popular aquarium fish

A disc with downward legs and a vertical handle, used for agitating laundry.

A device turned on a vertical axis by a handle or a winch, giving a circular motion to ore being washed.

A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.

In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.

A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.

A small truck without means of steering, to be slipped under a load.

A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.

(film) A specialized piece of film equipment resembling a little cart on which a camera is mounted.

(slang) A young woman, especially one who is frivolous or vapid.

A fashionable young woman, one who follows the latest music or clothing fashions.

A ball hit by a batsman such that it goes gently to a fielder for a simple catch.

(gambling) A marker placed on the winning number by the dealer at roulette.

(India) An offering of fruit or flowers.

To hit a dolly.

(transitive) To move (an object) using a dolly.

(transitive) To wash (laundry) in a tub using the stirring device called a dolly.

(transitive) To beat (red-hot metal) with a hammer.

(transitive) To crush ore with a dolly.

(Polari) Pretty; attractive.

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A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.

A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.

In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.

A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.

A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.

A child's mane for a doll.

Conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted

Conveyance consisting of a wheeled platform for moving heavy objects

A small replica of a person; used as a toy