曳

Meaning

曳 centers on pulling or dragging something with effort: a tug or jerk. The meanings 'admit', 'install', 'quote', and 'refer to' are less common and may represent extended uses where something is drawn in or brought forward.

• 曳航えいこう

  towing (a ship)

• 曳山ひきやま

  festival float

• 千曳ちびき

  something so heavy it must be pulled by a thousand men; pulling with strength of a thousand people

• 揺曳ようえい

  flutter; linger

• 曳々えいえい

  heaving; pulling

• 曳光弾えいこうだん

  tracer bullet; star shell; flare bomb

• 曳子ひきこ

  jinrikisha puller

• 曳家ひきや

  building relocation (without disassembly); house relocation

• 曳火えいか

  airburst; bursting in the air (of a shell, projectile, etc.)

• 曳火弾えいかだん

  time-fuze shell; time-fuse shell; air-burst shell

• 曳痕弾えいこんだん

  tracer bullet; tracer shell

• 曳網ひきあみ

  dragnet; seine

• 曳舞ひきまい

  building relocation (without disassembly); house relocation

• 曳船えいせん

  tugboat; tug; towboat

• 蓑曳鶏みのひきどり

  minohiki chicken (Japanese long-tailed breed)

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