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noun

• a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)

• the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand

adverb

• directly

verb

• hit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand

• to play music at loud volume

20%6 Weapon featured in old-fashioned duel scenes
noun

• a dagger with a slender blade

• formerly a long hairpin; usually with an ornamental head

• a small sharp-pointed tool for punching holes in leather or fabric

• a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops

20%5 Lost his nose in a duel
noun

• Danish astronomer whose observations of the planets provided the basis for Kepler's laws of planetary motion (1546-1601)

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