noun:

• preventing a ship from passing or from leaving port

noun:

• leader of a rebel army or band of rebels

noun:

• spot application; dispensing a drop or spot of something

noun / ~する noun:

• snow melting (usu. a system or device); snow removal

noun:

• adopter; adopting parent or parents; adoptive parent or parents; foster parent or parents

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to carry forward (i.e. on a balance sheet); to transfer

noun / ~する noun:

• superscription (on a letter, parcel, etc.); address
• overwriting (data, file, etc.) - IT term ➜ オーバーライト

noun:

• important point (e.g. on a route)
• important role (responsibility, etc.)
• opposition - Astronomy term ➜ 合【ごう】

noun:

• particle that attaches to a phrase and acts on the whole phrase - e.g. the の of のです ➜ のです

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to hold on to something (secret, lead in a race, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• two people using the same (vehicle) (often two on a bike)

noun:

• moving gadget on a pachinko machine designed to add excitement to play - obscure term

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to rock the left hand (to produce vibrato on a koto, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• slip-guard (on one side of the body of a shamisen) ➜ 胴掛け

noun:

• climbing kiln; ascending kiln; connected (pottery) kilns built on a slope

noun:

• debt bondage (ritsuryo system); forced labor on failure to pay a debt

noun:

• magic mallet; lucky mallet; nursery-tale mallet that delivers one's heart's desire at a wave

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to go; to come; to turn out (at a meeting, event, etc.); to show up; to make your way to

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• crisp (not moist or juicy); crunchy; flaky (as in pastry) - onomatopoeia
• crunching sound (of walking on snow, frost, sand, etc.) - onomatopoeia
• doing skillfully and efficiently; doing quickly; proceeding smoothly - onomatopoeia
• sound of pouring liquid - onomatopoeia - archaism
• speaking clearly - onomatopoeia - archaism

noun:

• New Year ornament (usu. of straw, fern leaves, seaweed and bitter orange fruit, and hung at the entrance of a home)

adverb:

• somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why

noun:

• local warriors, or provincial or district officials, who developed paddy field lands

noun / ~する noun:

• intermission during a performance (e.g. variety show, play, sumo, etc.)
• temporary departure of an actor (between the first and second halves of a noh or kyogen performance, during which time they change costumes, etc.)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out
• to arrive at (a certain outcome); to come to; to end with

adverb / ~の noun:

• reasonably; fairly; all right; moderate - onomatopoeia

adverb:

• hurriedly; in a rush; having barely finished - in the form もそこそこに - onomatopoeia

suffix:

• approximately; about; or so