This page gathers the 21 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Northeastern” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry.
- brook noun A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
- bureau noun A chest of drawers for clothes.
- camp wood noun A type of firewood sold at roadside stands for use in camping, campfires, or cabins, that provides an efficient, low-smoke burning.
- cellar noun A basement.
- clicker noun The remote-control device used to change settings on a television set, VCR, or other electronic equipment.
- clove noun A narrow valley with steep sides.
- elastic noun Specifically, a hair tie.
- gimp noun Gumption.
- ground pea noun Apios americana, a climbing vine of eastern North America.
- kill noun A creek or stream; (more loosely) any watercourse, such as a channel or arm of the sea.
- main road noun A major urban road, off which lead many smaller streets, many of them cul-de-sacs.
- mercury noun Poison ivy or poison oak (genus Toxicodendron, especially the eastern poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) or Atlantic poison oak…
- noddy noun Synonym of northern fulmar (“an Arctic seabird, Fulmarus glacialis”).
- paper verb To cover someone's house with toilet paper. Otherwise known as toilet papering or TPing.
- pie noun A pizza.
- scrap paper noun scratch paper
- sleet noun Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.
- sneaker noun An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole. A trainer.
- teeter-totter noun A type of glider swing; a piece of playground equipment consisting of a tandem swing attached to a swingset, with two riders facing each…
- torpedo noun Synonym of submarine sandwich.
- tractor-trailer noun A large truck consisting of an engine and cab section (the tractor) and a cargo-carrying semi-trailer or trailer.