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▸ verb:  (transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To join side to side; to border.
▸ verb:  (by extension, transitive, obsolete) To sail along the coast or side of.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To approach; to come up to.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To assault.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To solicit sexually.
▸ noun:  (rare) Address; greeting.
▸ noun:  An attack.

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