angling with a weighted line without a float

(mining) A superintendent of mines.

The hand-made ground of Brussels lace.

(cricket) A ground other than a team's home ground, used for occasional matches.

Any of the Brachypteraciidae, a small family of non-migratory near-passerine birds restricted to Madagascar, and related to the kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers.

(law, Scotland) An estate created in land by a vassal who instead of selling his land outright reserves an annual ground rent, which becomes a perpetual charge upon the land.

Any of a large cosmopolitan family of beetles, Carabidae. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ground, beetle.

The floor of a building closest to ground level; what is also known by some American English speakers as the first floor. (US) / (informal) The initial stage of a project.

(Scotland) A person who looks after a large Scottish estate for a Lord, preventing illegal hunting and fishing, and liaises with tenant farmers.

Situated on the ground floor