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Whip Ringleader Held By Officer

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noun

• the yield from plants in a single growing season

• a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale

• a collection of people or things appearing together

• the output of something in a season

• the stock or handle of a whip

• a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

verb

• cut short

• prepare for crops

• yield crops

• let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

• feed as in a meadow or pasture

• cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

35%10Ringleader of a task
noun

• the presiding member of the jury and the one who speaks on their behalf

35%7Ringleader
noun

• an executioner who beheads the condemned person

• the head of a tribe or clan

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