Definitions of baffle
v. t. - To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
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v. t. - To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
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v. t. - To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
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v. i. - To practice deceit.
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v. i. - To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
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n. - A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
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n. - A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated.
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n. - A grating or plate across a channel or pipe conveying water, gas, or the like, by which the flow is rendered more uniform in different parts of the cross section of the stream; -- used in measuring the rate of flow, as by means of a weir.
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n. - A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
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The word "baffle" uses 6 letters: A B E F F L.
No direct anagrams for baffle found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after baffle (in bold), or to abeffl in any order:
a - affable d - baffled e - effable r - baffler s - baffles
Shorter words found within baffle:
ab able ae aff al alb ale alef ba baff bal bale be bel blae ef eff el elf fa fable feal flab flea la lab lea leaf
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