duns

noun

Meaning

A brownish grey colour.
A collector of debts.
An urgent request or demand of payment.
To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.
To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.
A mound or small hill.

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