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advocate, aegis, arch dam, arm guard, back, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, breakwater, breastwork,

   uncelebrated - inglorious, little known, nameless, no credit to, obscure, undistinguished, unheard-of, unknown, unnoticed, unpopular, unsung ,

   stock market quotations - asking price, bid, bid price, list price, net, quotation ,

   convulse - afflict, agitate, agonize, ail, amuse, beat, beat up, beguile, bite, bloody, bug, burn, chafe, churn, churn up,

   lever - agent, appliance, bar, beam, boom, cant hook, claw bar, contrivance, crab, crane, crank, creature, crow, crowbar, derrick,

   planter - agriculturalist, agriculturist, agronomist, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, colonial, colonist, colonizer, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm labourer, farmer,

   lost to view - away, extinct, gone, lost, missing, no more, non-existent, out of sight ,

   speak fair - accost, address, appeal to, approach, bespeak, buttonhole, greet, hail, invoke, salute, speak, speak to, take aside, talk to ,

   insect-eating - cannibal, carnivorous, dietetic, dining, eating, gluttonous, herbivorous, insectivorous, nourishing, nutritious, omnivorous, postprandial, vegetarian ,

   custodian - air warden, attendant, attorney, bailiff, bull, butler, caretaker, char, charwoman, cleaner, cleaner-off, cleaner-up, cleaning lady, cleaning man, cleaning woman,

   inseparable friend - acquaintance, advocate, alter ego, backer, brother, confidant, familiar, fellow, fellow man, intimate, lover, neighbour, other self, partisan, pick-up,