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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós (“covered”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to cover”).

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inherited from *ḱlitós✻
inherited from *hlidą✻
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Definitions

The top or cover of a container.
A cap or hat.
One ounce of cannabis.
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1. 4
  A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
  - Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.
  - the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders
2. An operculum or other lid-like cover.
3. A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
4. In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
5. 8
  Clipping of eyelid.
  - But he suddenly started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.
6. A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a…
  A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
7. 10
  A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
  - Basically he says that there is a lid on my organization and on my future, and that lid is me. I am the problem with my company and you are the problem with your company.
8. A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid).
9. The sky.
10. One's mind.
11. To put a lid on (something).

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Derived

blow one's lid, blow the lid off, bootlid, call a lid, decklid, delid, earlid, eyelid, flip one's lid, flip the lid, flip your lid, keep a lid on, keep the lid on something, someone, lidder, lidful, lidless, lid-lifter, lidlike, lidlock, lift the lid, potlid, put a lid on it, put the lid on, put the tin lid on it, skid lid, Sutton Hoo purse-lid, there is a lid for every pot, there's a lid for every pot, tin lid, trunklid

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at lid. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at lid. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at lid

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