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Dear Bel seems to have been the only person to read my post about the two meanings of Hamper before it fell off the page..
but it might be fun to find some of the less common homonyms (sound alike, spelled alike, two different meanings..)
tsuwm has done a definative report on cleave..(some where in the past) i tossed in hamper (to redeem my self, in what was an other wise a non word post.)
i know a few others.. but how about you?
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seller-cellar
neigh-nay
bough- bow
just off the top of my head!
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>sound alike, spelled alike, two different meanings..
(before we all follow down that other path)
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ear = organ of hearing, ear= grain bearing spike of a cereal plant,esp. of corn
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crow, shore, mate, ball, bowl and cricket! The last one has three meanings, btw  I'm sure that I can come up with some more but I have a web page to write first. 
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wow: You've given us homophones (different spellings). Helen was asking for homonyms. She referred back to "cleave," which has two rather opposite meanings while spelled and pronounced the same.
Another well-known example is "sanction."
What's with the spellcheck? It questioned the words homophones and homonyms. Wanted to know if I meant "homosexual."
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What's with the spellcheck? It questioned the words homophones and homonyms. Wanted to know if I meant "homosexual."Well, what do you expect from such an advanced product as Microsloth© Windoze©? 
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>another well-known example is sanction. actually®, sanction is only one word which has come (through the enantiodromic process (this really is a yart®) :) to have two nearly opposite senses: to justify as permissable or to attach a penalty to transgression. http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=451
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I don't think Uncle Bill had anything to do with our dear Ćnigma.
The truth, dear Slithy, is, alas, much less romantic than the mystique. I'll enlighten you by PM if you wish, but it is more fun to revel in her seeming capriciousness.
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about 2 for the money
we say
prendere due piccioni con una fava:
to catch two pigeons by means of (just) one broad bean (used as a bait).
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