crossarm; bracket; blade; semaphore
barrier; gate; seki (in go); mutual life
to place on (something); to give (someone) a ride; to give a lift; to load (luggage); to carry; to send out (on the airwaves, etc.); to deceive
bombarding; shelling; bombardment
very; much; greatly; a lot of
honour; honor; dignity; prestige; reputation; appearances
pardon; forgiveness; tolerance; leniency; mercy; going easy (on someone)
to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign
to make someone drink; to force someone to drink; to serve (alcohol); to treat someone (to drinks); to be drinkable (esp. of alcohol); to be palatable
to trick; to cheat; to deceive; to coax; to wheedle; to soothe and humor (humour)
to tie; to bind; to fasten; to restrict (freedom); to tie down (with rules, regulations, etc.); to fetter
duck; easy mark; sucker; sitting duck
dry riverbed; river beach
to run away; to flee; to make off; to start to run away
to suffer an embarrassing defeat
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)
to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)
dangerous; in danger; facing imminent danger; precarious (situation); perilous (state, balance, etc.); in doubt
one child; only child; one of several children (esp. the son and heir); one stone (in the game of go)
to run to; to come running; to rush (someplace); to hasten
to bring down (an animal, opponent, etc.); to kill; to shoot dead; to shoot down
crossing swords; fighting with swords; cutting each other (in fighting)
fighting with real swords; game played in real earnest
younger scholar; future reference
there; that situation; that occasion; the spot (i.e. "on the spot"); immediately; then and there
to get (someone) drunk; to inebriate; to intoxicate; to charm; to enchant
drying rice on a rack; rack for drying rice
thirteen; 13; king (playing card)
female help; female labor; woman's handwriting; (arch.) hiragana
to pay attention; to be watchful
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
to hold in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to have (problems, debts, etc.); to take on (a responsibility); to employ; to have (on one's staff)
ladder; stairs; going to several places in succession (e.g. barhopping)
near; close by; within reach; familiar
article; item; quality; flirtatiousness; coquetry
going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease