calais

Meaning

first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of caler

caler

  1. (transitive) to wedge (open) (a door)
  2. (transitive) to jam (machinery etc.), to stall (an engine)
  3. (intransitive) to stall (of driver, engine)
  4. (transitive) to fill (someone) up
  5. (colloquial, intransitive) (of person eating) to be full
  6. (transitive) to synchronize
  7. (Quebec, transitive) to chug (an alcoholic beverage)
  8. (Quebec, transitive) to be bald or balding, to go or be going bald

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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ka.lɛ/

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