(baseball, slang) A ball which falls over the infielders’ heads for a hit, as if it were a bird shot by a hunter. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, bird.

(informal) Very impressively or spectacularly.

(cricket) The bat when held with a light grip such that it gives when the ball strikes it, and the ball loses momentum and falls to the ground.

(transitive, cricket) To play (the ball) with a dead bat.

(ball games) The ball when dead and out of play.

A method of estimating the position of a ship or aircraft by applying estimates of the distance and direction travelled to a previously known position. In respect to ships/boats, it excludes the effect of wind and current on the vessel. Compare with estimated position. Abbreviation: DR

(intransitive) To die suddenly. / (intransitive, figuratively) To be appalled or mortified.

Used angrily to express disgust, contempt, derision, etc., toward another person.

(dated, nautical) The period of work on board ship for which the seamen have been paid in advance (usually a month's wages), the end of this term being celebrated by parading a straw horse about the decks.

(baseball) A four-seam fastball