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Vocabulary (12)

• 押し貸し

  おしがし

  (high interest) loan forcefully imposed on the borrower

• 記名押印

  きめいおういん

  affixing one's name and seal

• 灰押さえ

  はいおさえ

  ash leveler (use in a brazier)

• 灰押し

  はいおし

  ash leveler (use in a brazier)

• 長押

  なげし

  beam running between columns in traditional Japanese architecture, esp. within Japanese-style rooms

• 押し傷

  おしきず

  bruise (on fruit, etc.)

• 力押し

  ちからおし

  brute force approach (esp. in a video game)

• 押し目買い

  おしめがい

  buying when the market is down

• 中子押え

  なかごおさえ

  chaplet (metallurgy)

• 押し競

  おしくら

  children's game in which (at least three) people stand back to back to each other and shove vigorously backwards

• 押し競べ

  おしくらべ

  children's game in which (at least three) people stand back to back to each other and shove vigorously backwards

• おしくら饅頭

  おしくらまんじゅう

  children's game in which three or more stand back-to-back in a circle and jostle