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1 lit. with his head attached to a beam and stabbing his thigh with an awl (idiom)

2 fig. to study assiduously and tirelessly

1 to capture

1 tomato juice

1 rotating turret

1 ding-a-ling

2 (onom.) for sound of bell

1 fuel pins

1 each one distinguishable

1 student loan

1 of equal value

1 female general

2 (fig.) woman who is a leading figure in her area of expertise

1 Pervez Musharraf (1943-), Pakistani general and politician, president 2001-2008

1 to rise to action with a determined shake of the arms

1 Cape Verde

1 binoculars

1 prolonged war

2 war of attrition

1 to clear a wild area for cultivation

2 to put under the plow

1 high and steep

1 scholar's rock (one of the naturally-eroded, fantastically-shaped rocks put on display indoors or in gardens in China)

1 Muzha (old spelling: Mucha), suburb to the southeast of Taipei