At full tilt
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- At grade
a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper. a cl-ss of persons or things of the same relative rank, quality, etc. a step or stage in a course or process. a single division of a school cl-ssified according to the age or progress […]
- At-hack
a rack for drying food, as fish. a rack for holding fodder for livestock. a low pile of unburnt bricks in the course of drying. to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding. falconry. to train (a young hawk) by letting it fly freely and feeding it at a or a . […]
- At gunpoint
the or aim of a . at gunpoint, under threat of being shot: he carried out the robber’s orders at gunpoint. noun the muzzle of a gun at gunpoint, being under or using the threat of being shot also, at knifepoint. under coercion, as in i’m going to hold him at gunpoint for that raise […]
- At half-mast
halfway up or down, as in the church bells tolled off and on all day and the flags were at half-mast. this term refers to placing a flag halfway up a ship’s mast or flagpole, a practice used as a mark of respect for a person who has died or, at sea, as a distress […]
- At hand
the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb. the corresponding part of the forelimb in any of the higher vertebrates. a terminal prehensile part, as the chela of a crustacean, or, in falconry, the foot of a falcon. something resembling a […]