verb: (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To injure (anything) by rough handling; handle roughly.
verb: (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To begrime; soil with mud; daub; smear.
verb: (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To work persistently or laboriously; be occupied in working (e.g. in the earth, rake among dirt, etc.).
verb: (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To meddle; interfere.
verb: (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To knead dough; stir dough previously kneaded to a proper consistency before baking.
verb: (intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To become soft; become moist, as damp earth.
noun: (communication, aviation) Initialism of emergency locator transmitter. [(communication, aviation) an emergency location radio beacon, used on aircraft]
noun: (medicine, physiology) Initialism of euglobulin lysis time. [A blood test that measures how long clots take to break down (lysis) in the blood.]
noun: Initialism of English language teaching.
verb: (computing, data warehousing) Initialism of extract, load, transform. [(transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.]
noun: (mathematics, computing) Abbreviation of element. [(chemistry) Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.]
