nigger

(see usage notes) A member of another typically dark-skinned people (now especially in combinations, e.g. prairie nigger, sand nigger).

A friend.

A fish, the luderick (Girella tricuspidata).

A dark brown butterfly, Orsotriaena medus.

An impurity in the covering of an electrical conductor which serves to make a partial short circuit, and thus becomes sufficiently heated to burn and destroy the insulation.

A kind of sea cucumber, Holothuria forskali, the cotton spinner.

The larva of the turnip sawfly, an agricultural pest.

A strong iron-bound timber with sharp teeth or spikes protruding from its front face, forming part of the machinery of a sawmill, and used in canting logs, etc.

A steam-capstan on some Mississippi river boats, used to haul the boat over bars and snags by a rope fastened to a tree on the bank.

A black screen used in conjunction with the camera to block light or produce special lighting effects.

To clear land by laying light pieces of round timber across the trunks of the trees and setting fire to them at the point of contact, by which means the trees are slowly burned through.

To exhaust (soil) by cropping it year by year without manure.

To behave as a stereotypical black person.

To treat as inferior.