(n) parallel bars
(n) knitting needle
(n) grave robber
grave robbing
(n) bang bang chicken (Szechuan dish of chicken in a spicy sauce) (chi: bang bang ji)
(n,vs) indiscriminate learning by heart
(n,vs) cancellation
writing off (a debt)
(n) bar magnet
(n) (obsc) Edo-era street merchant who carried wares hanging from a pole, hawking them in the street
(n) stick figure; stick person
(n) stick
piece of wood
bit of a broken pole
(n) galley setting
(n) game in which the object is to topple the opposing team's pole
(n,vs) reading in a monotone
reading a Chinese classical text without translating it into Japanese
(n) bang bang chicken (Szechuan dish of chicken in a spicy sauce) (chi: bang bang ji)
(n) standing upright
standing bolt upright
rearing
(P)
(n) bodyguard
(P)
(n) (1) wooden pole (often oak), 6 shaku long
(2) shoulder pole
(n) (obsc) flail (for threshing grain)
(n) matchstick
(n) metal rod in a wooden plane which holds the chip breaker against the blade
(n) fire hook
poker
slice bar
(n) log
(exp) making a strong person even stronger (like giving an metal rod to an ogre)
as strong as can be
(n) (1) a gossip
(2) night watchman
(n) freeloader
slacker
lazy worker who does not deserve his salary
(n) pole used to hand things up a ladder
(n) charred stake
(n) a bar
(adj-na,n) exaggeration
making a mountain out of a molehill
(n) person living off other people's taxes
tax parasite
(a derogatory term for) public servants