nigger

Definitions

• (offensive) A black person; a person of black African descent.
• (offensive) A member of another typically dark-skinned people now especially in combinations, e.g. m.
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• (now) A fish, the luderick (Girella tricuspidata).
• (now) A dark brown butterfly, .
• (archaic) An impurity in the covering of an electrical conductor which serves to make a partial short circuit, and thus becomes sufficiently heated to burn and destroy the insulation.
• (UK) A kind of sea cucumber, , the cotton spinner.
• (archaic) The larva of the turnip sawfly, an agricultural pest.
• (archaic) A strong iron-bound timber with sharp teeth or spikes protruding from its front face, forming part of the machinery of a sawmill, and used in canting logs, etc.
• (archaic) A steam-capstan on some Mississippi river boats, used to haul the boat over bars and snags by a rope fastened to a tree on the bank.
• (film) A black screen used in conjunction with the camera to block light or produce special lighting effects.