filare

“filare” is a Italian word. Its 17 meanings in English:

to spin (yarn)
to draw (wire)
to pay out (rope, etc.)
to trail (an oar in the water)
to trickle out, to drip (liquid)
to prolong, to sustain (a note)
to spin a web or cocoon (of spiders, silkworms, etc.)
to be stringy
to trickle, to drip, to flow out in a thin stream
to race, to speed, to proceed quickly
to run (at a given speed; of a ship)
to scram, to skedaddle, to vamoose
to unfold, to proceed in an orderly fashion, to go off without a hitch (of a speech, show, etc.)
to purr (of a cat)
to flirt
row, line, file, especially of trees or vines
wire

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