stoop

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stoop englannista suomeksi

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An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
{{quote-text|en|year=1819|publisher=Washington Irving|chapter=Bracebridge Hall|title=Hall/Hawking|Hawking
To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
(RQ:Chesnutt House Behind the Cedars)
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To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
Of a of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
(RQ:Shakespeare Cymbeline)
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To cause to incline downward; to slant.
To cause to submit; to prostrate.
(RQ:Homer Chapman Odysseys)
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
(RQ:Shakespeare Venus and Adonis)
{{RQ:Dryden Annus Mirabilis
(RQ:Addison Cato)
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
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(RQ:Bacon Essayes)
A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout.
The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.

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{{quote-book|en|year=1856|author=James Fenimore Cooper|title=Satanstoe or The Littlepage Manuscripts: A Tale of the Colony|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=U2wJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA110&|page=110|location=London
1905 ''Carpentry and Building'', vol. 27 (January 1905), NY: David Williams Company, page 2

...the entrance being at the side of the house and reached by a low front stoop with four or five risers...