spool
bobbin
reel
cable drum
aiglet
ligature
leader
pirn
wirelike
gimp
girthline
spinner
friction yielding prop
friction prop
mechanical yielding prop
spincast
shroud
knotwork
guy wire
guy
gang press
reelable
bead
guy cable
wirerimmed
guy rope
wire cutter
wire
hockle
sidecast
shifter
capstan
mousing
thimbled
mouse
pin
winder
cringle
grappling hook
spanner
fish
Albright knot
crimping pliers
wirecutting
crimper
fly press
wrench
reel up
hank
point
Blackwall hitch
woolding
duct tape
screwgate
tye
warping hook
skeining
draw
twine reeler
trivet
undergird
hack-iron
racket
pounding block
temper screw
hooksetting
input arm
swivel
thread
pluck
kneck
wire-edged
becket hitch
chaser
wire rope
tug
pivot
inductance coil
pern
bead breaker
woold
T-splice
die
chokecoil
tie
concertina
block and tackle
rope
tackle fall
whip
wireform
pipe cleaner
stay
wirelike
reelable
wirerimmed
thimbled
wire-edged
spool
bobbin
reel
cable drum
aiglet
ligature
leader
pirn
gimp
girthline
spinner
friction yielding prop
friction prop
mechanical yielding prop
spincast
shroud
knotwork
guy wire
guy
gang press
bead
guy cable
guy rope
wire cutter
wire
hockle
shifter
capstan
mousing
mouse
pin
winder
cringle
grappling hook
spanner
Albright knot
crimping pliers
wirecutting
crimper
fly press
wrench
hank
point
Blackwall hitch
woolding
screwgate
tye
warping hook
skeining
twine reeler
trivet
hack-iron
racket
pounding block
temper screw
hooksetting
input arm
swivel
thread
pluck
kneck
becket hitch
chaser
wire rope
tug
pivot
inductance coil
pern
bead breaker
T-splice
die
chokecoil
tie
concertina
block and tackle
tackle fall
whip
wireform
pipe cleaner
stay
sidecast
wire
fish
reel up
hockle
duct tape
draw
undergird
woold
rope
noun
- A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
- One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
- A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.
- A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
verb
noun
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
- a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
- music composed for dancing a reel
- winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod
- a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps
- an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines
verb
noun
- A tip, originally of metal and often decorative, on a ribbon or cord that makes lacing two parts of a garment or garments together easier, as in corset lacings, "points" (lacing hose or trousers to jacket or doublet) or sleeves to a bodice.
- An ornament worn on clothing, consisting of a metal tag on a fringe, or a small metallic plate or spangle.
noun
- A cord or similar thing used to tie something; especially the thread used in surgery to close a vessel or duct.
- A piece used to hold a reed to the mouthpiece on woodwind instruments.
- The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness.
- A character that visually combines multiple letters, such as æ, œ, ß or ij; also logotype. Sometimes called a typographic ligature.
- A group of notes played as a phrase, or the curved line that indicates such a phrase.
- The act of tying or binding something.
- Impotence caused by magic or charms.
- A curve or line connecting notes; a slur.
- A thread or wire used to remove tumours, etc.
verb
noun
- A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
- The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.
- One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
- One having authority to direct.
- A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
- The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
- an animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs
- Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
- A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
- A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
- The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
- A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
- A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
- Any person who leads or directs.
- The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
- Someone or something that leads or conducts.
- One who goes first.
- A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
- A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
- The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
- A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
- A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
- A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
noun
- Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.
- The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.
- A crippled leg.
- A character or ability that is underpowered.
- A limp or a limping gait.
- A sexual submissive, almost always male, dressed generally in a black leather suit. See Gimp (sadomasochism) in Wikipedia.
- A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.
- A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
- A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient or peculiar
verb
- To limp; to hobble.
- To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.
- To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.
noun
- A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
- An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
- A conical cover at the center of some aircraft propellers.
- A record turntable or CD player.
- A flat target mounted on an axis so that a ball passing through can make it spin around, usually awarding a certain number of points for every revolution it completes.
- A spin bowler.
- The Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus).
- Primarily in the adult film industry, an actress or prostitute with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
- A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
- A device that is spun in games to choose a number or symbol.
- An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
- A spinneret.
- The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
- The dolphin Stenella longirostris.
- A spin doctor.
noun
- One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
verb
noun
- A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.
- A narrow molding with semicircular section.
- A bubble, in spirits.
- Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
- Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
- A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
- A small drop of water or other liquid.
- A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
- Various small, round solid objects.
verb
noun
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- A telecommunication wire or cable.
- Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
- A knitting needle.
- Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- An electric telegraph; a telegram.
- A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- A deadline or critical endpoint.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- A finish line of a racetrack.
- A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
- A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
verb
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
- To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
- To string on a wire.
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
- To install eavesdropping equipment.
- To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
- To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
- To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
verb
- To cast a fishing line at an angle of 90 degrees using a special type of reel that rotates on its rod.
- To eject waste material that has been excavated or dredged to the side, rather than hauling it away.
noun
- A mode of using a suction dredge that sidecasts the material that is dredged up using a pipeline to the bank or by jetting.
- A type of reel with a spool that rotates on a fixed base through 90 degrees to allow sidecasting.
- A calculation or figure that is listed in a table beside a drawing that gives a value which cannot be read directly from the drawing.
- Debris left next to a construction site from sidecasting.
noun
- A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
- A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
- A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
- One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
- An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
- A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
- An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
- A genre of erotica focusing on lycanthropes or other shapeshifters, such as werewolves.
- A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
- A person who changes the reality their consciousness resides in, through meditation or other means.
- A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
- A shape-shifter, or a person or other being capable of changing their physical form.
noun
- A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straightening out.
- Any small rodent of the genus Mus.
- (plural mice or, rarely, mouses) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.
- Part of a hind leg of beef, next to the round.
- A small cushion for a woman's hair.
- The cursor.
- A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).
- A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.
- A quiet or shy person.
- A facial hematoma or black eye.
- A match used in firing guns or blasting.
verb
noun
- A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
- A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
- The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
- A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
- A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
- Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
- The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
- A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- A thing of small value; a trifle.
- A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
- A pinball machine.
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
- The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
- A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
- Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
- The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
- A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
- A leg.
verb
- To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
- To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
- To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
- To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
- To pin down (someone).
- To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
verb
- To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- To use as bait when fishing.
- To hoist the flukes of.
- To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
noun
- A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- A woman.
- The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A male homosexual; a gay man.
- An easy victim for swindling.
- A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
- Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
- A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- The flesh of the fish used as food.
- Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
- Cod; codfish.
- Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
- A period of time spent fishing.
- A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- An instance of seeking something.
noun
noun
- a hand tool used for joining two pieces of metal or other ductile material (usually a wire and a metal plate) by deforming one or both of them to hold the other.
- someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
- a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it
noun
- A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
- A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
- Doubt, difficulty.
- A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
- Mess, tangle.
- A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.
verb
noun
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- The difference between two points of the compass.
- A railroad switch.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- An electric power socket.
- A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
verb
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- To repair mortar.
- To direct toward an object; to aim.
- To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- To face in a particular direction.
- To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- To mark with diacritics.
- To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- To indicate a probability of something.
- To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- To sail close to the wind.
- To approximate to the surface; to head.
verb
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
noun
- An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.
- An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.
- A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
- A loud noise.
- A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
verb
noun
- A piece, such as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.
- A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; called also swivel gun.
- Strength of mind or character that enables one to overcome adversity; confidence; force of will.
- The act of swivelling.
- A rotating of the hips.
- A small, usually ball- or barrel-shaped device used in angling to connect sections of fishing lines, consisting of two rings linked via a thrust bearing pivot joint.
verb
noun
- A screw thread.
- A sequence of connections.
- A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.
- A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.
- A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
- The line midway between the banks of a stream.
- A continued theme or idea.
- A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread.
- Composition; quality; fineness.
verb
noun
- A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads.
- Synonym of prison chaser (“person who guards military prisoners”)
- A horse: (originally) a horse used for hunting; (now) a horse trained for steeplechasing, a steeplechaser.
- A drink drunk after another of a different kind.
- A piece of music, etc. played after a performance while the audience leaves.
- A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.
- A chubby chaser.
- In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.
- A tranny chaser.
- A chase gun.
- Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.
- One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
- A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected.
- A person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) that chases.
- One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
- Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
noun
- A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
- An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively.
- Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
- A quarterback.
- The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
- Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
- A circle runner.
- A shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
- A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
- An element of a matrix that is used as a focus for row operations, such as dividing the row by the pivot, or adding multiples of the row to other rows making all other values in the pivot column 0.
- A pivot table.
- Act of turning on one foot.
verb
noun
- a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods
- a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
- a device used for shaping metal
verb
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- suffer or face the pain of death
- be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
- stop operating or functioning
- feel indifferent towards
- languish as with love or desire
- cut or shape with a die
- to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
- lose sparkle or bouquet
- disappear or come to an end
- suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
noun
- A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- A tiewig.
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
- A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- A knot; a fastening.
- A lace-up shoe.
- A connection between two vertices.
- One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- A strong connection between people or groups of people.
- A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
verb
- To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- To secure (something) by string or the like.
- To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
noun
verb
- To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
- To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
- To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
- To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
- To tie (something) with rope.
- My life is a mess; I might as well rope.
noun
- A cohesive strand of something.
- A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
- A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
- Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
- A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
- A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
- A hard line drive.
- The small intestines.
- Semen being ejaculated.
- Death by hanging.
- An individual length of such material.
- A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
- A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
- Rohypnol.
- Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
noun
- A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
- A whipper-in.
- A blow administered with a whip.
- A coach driver; a coachman.
- The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
- A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing them of upcoming votes in parliament.
- A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
- The regular status of an MP within a parliamentary party, which can be revoked by the party as a disciplinary measure.
- A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
- The same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
- A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
- A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes; a whipper-in.
- A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
- A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
- A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
- Whipped cream.
verb
- To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
- To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
- To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
- To urge into action or obedience.
- To hit with any flexible object.
- To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
- To move very fast.
- To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
- To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
- To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
- To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
- To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
- To snap back and forth like a whip.
- To hit with a whip.
- To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
- To defeat, as in a contest or game.
- To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
noun
noun
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- A corset.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A prop; a support.
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
adv
verb
- To live; reside
- To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To hold the attention of.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- To tack; put on the other tack.
adj
English words for 'A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.'
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