ropy
cable
lasher
rope yarn
line
lashing
kevel
snatch block
rope
bungee
heave
string
bungee cord
strap
backsplice
wall
guy
seizing
working part
viol
log
tether
tackle fall
girthline
flex
net
bindable
bondable
belay
standing end
ancistroid
loop
ropewalk
hawser-laid rope
carabiner
sash cord
working end
guy rope
warping hook
catch-rope
lirate
pilot ladder
rope up
rack
hookable
jack ladder
laid rope
skip rope
lay
top-rope
Jacob's ladder
block and tackle
hurdlemaker
lash together
belaying pin
gird
Johnson bar
unciferous
stopper
flake
cable jointing
tatting
wapp
marry
trice up
buntline coil
hanging loop
zippable
inrail
gasket coil
grappler
guy cable
fastened
guy wire
pipe vise
grappling hook
pipe clamp
funiliform
tied
slack
grapple
grapnel
stopper knot
grappling iron
filament
seize
angler's loop
tail
cat-block
inductile
reefpoint
cable-laid rope
ropy
bindable
bondable
ancistroid
lirate
hookable
unciferous
zippable
fastened
funiliform
tied
inductile
cable
lasher
rope yarn
line
lashing
kevel
snatch block
bungee
string
bungee cord
strap
guy
seizing
working part
viol
log
tether
tackle fall
girthline
flex
net
belay
standing end
loop
ropewalk
hawser-laid rope
carabiner
sash cord
working end
guy rope
warping hook
catch-rope
pilot ladder
rack
jack ladder
laid rope
skip rope
top-rope
Jacob's ladder
block and tackle
hurdlemaker
belaying pin
Johnson bar
stopper
flake
cable jointing
tatting
wapp
buntline coil
hanging loop
gasket coil
grappler
guy cable
guy wire
pipe vise
grappling hook
pipe clamp
slack
grapple
grapnel
stopper knot
grappling iron
filament
angler's loop
tail
cat-block
reefpoint
cable-laid rope
rope
heave
backsplice
wall
rope up
lay
lash together
gird
marry
trice up
inrail
belay
seize
noun
- A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
- An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
- 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
- A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
- An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
- The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
- A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
- A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
- A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
- A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
- A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
verb
noun
- A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
- A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
- A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
- A verse (in poetry).
- One fortieth of an inch.
- The goal line.
- An edge of a graph.
- A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
- An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- The equator.
- A vascular catheter.
- A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
- A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
- A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
- A hose or pipe, of any size.
- A letter, a written form of communication.
- A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
- A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.
- A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
- The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
- A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
- A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
- A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
- Direction, path.
- A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
- Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
- The batter's box.
- A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
- Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
- Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude
- One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
- One sixteenth of an inch.
- One twelfth of an inch.
- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- A clothesline.
- The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
- Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
- Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine.
- A group of forwards that play together.
- A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
verb
- To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
- To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
- To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
- To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
- To read or repeat line by line.
- To form a line along.
- To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
- To measure.
- To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
verb
- To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
- To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
- To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
- 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
verb
- To pull up with a rope or cable.
- To throw, cast.
- To displace (a vein, stratum).
- To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- To rise and fall.
- To utter with effort.
- To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
noun
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
- An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
- An effort to vomit; retching.
- Broken wind in horses.
- The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
- An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
- A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
noun
- A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
- A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.
- The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.
- In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
- An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
- A stringed instrument.
- The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
- The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
- An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
- Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
- A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.
- A series of items or events.
- The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
- A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.
- A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (via the mud pumps) and torque (via the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.
- A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
- A thread
- The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
- The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
- A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
- The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line.
- A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.
- Such a structure considered as a substance.
- A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
- Cannabis or marijuana.
- The points made in a game of billiards.
- A stringcourse.
- Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”)
verb
- To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
- To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
- To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
- To put strings on (something).
- To put (items) on a string.
noun
noun
- A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
- Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
- A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
- A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
- A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
- A championship belt, or by extension, the title.
- An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one put and two call options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bullish than a straddle.
- The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
- Synonym of strapline
- A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
- A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
- The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
- A strap worn on the shoulder.
verb
verb
- To make a wall knot on the end of (a rope).
- To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls.
- To well, as water; spring.
- To boil.
noun
- A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.
- A spring of water.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- A point of desperation.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian.
- A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- A barrier to vision.
- A barrier.
- An impediment to free movement.
- A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
noun
- A support rope or cable used to aid in hoisting or lowering.
- An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
- Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man.
- character, personality (not referring to a person, but pretending to)
- A support to secure or steady structures prone to shift their position or be carried away (e.g. the mast of a ship or a suspension bridge).
- A person (see usage notes).
- A man, fellow.
verb
noun
- A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
- A difference of one in the logarithm, usually in base 10; an order of magnitude.
- Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.
- Anything shaped like a log; a cylinder.
- The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
- A logbook, or journal of a vessel's (or aircraft's) progress.
- A chronological record of actions, performances, computer/network usage, etc.
- Specifically, an append-only sequence of records written to file.
- A blockhead; a very stupid person.
- Synonym of logarithm.
- A Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about ¹⁄₃ liter).
- A rolled cake with filling.
- A unit of length equivalent to 16 feet, used for measuring timber, especially the trunk of a tree.
- A piece of feces.
- A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.
- A heavy longboard.
- A penis.
verb
noun
- a rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement
- a strong rope or line that connects a sailor's safety harness to the boat's jackstay
- the limit of one's abilities, resources etc.
- The cardinal number three in an old counting system used in Teesdale and Swaledale. (Variant of tethera)
verb
noun
- A mesh of string, cord or rope.
- A conductor that interconnects two or more component terminals.
- The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit.
- Any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form a given polyhedron.
- A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.
- Anything that has the appearance of such a device.
- The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court).
- A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.
- A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.
- A trap.
- A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
- A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
adv
verb
- To form a netting or network; to knit.
- To yield as profit for.
- To enclose or cover with a net.
- To score (a goal).
- To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.
- To catch by means of a net.
- To receive as profit.
- To fully hedge a position.
- To hit the ball into the net.
adj
adj
noun
- A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
- A complete circuit for an electric current.
- A quasigroup with an identity element.
- A ring road or beltway.
- The opening so formed.
- A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
- A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
- A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
- A place at a terminus where trains or trams can turn round and go back the other way without having to reverse; a balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop.
- An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
- An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
- An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
- A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
- A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
- A path that starts and ends at the same point.
- A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
verb
- To move in a loop.
- To move something in a loop.
- To place in a loop.
- To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
- To fly an aircraft in a loop.
- To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
- To form something into a loop.
- To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
- To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
- To form a loop.
noun
- A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- A distaff.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- A woman's breasts.
- A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- A bunk.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- Sleep.
- A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
- A fast amble.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
verb
- To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- To strike in the testicles.
- To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
verb
- To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To have sex with.
- To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- To produce and deposit an egg.
- To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To apply; to put.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To point; to aim.
- To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
- To present or offer.
- simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
- To state; to allege.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
adj
- Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
- Not trumps.
- Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
noun
- The direction a rope is twisted.
- A casual sexual partner.
- A lake.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- The laying of eggs.
noun
- A short rope for making something fast.
- Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.
- A bung or cork.
- In the commodity futures market, someone who is long (owns) a futures contract and is demanding delivery because they want to take possession of the deliverable commodity.
- A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
- Goalkeeper.
- A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
- A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.
verb
noun
- A flat turn or tier of rope.
- A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
- A scale of a fish or similar animal
- A wire rack for drying fish.
- The meat of the gummy shark.
- Dogfish.
- A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
- A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
- A paling; a hurdle.
- A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
- A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
- A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
- A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
verb
verb
- To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
- To enter into marriage with one another.
- To take as husband or wife.
- To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
- To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
- To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.
- To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.
- To join or connect. See also marry up.
- To unite; to join together into a close union.
noun
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
- dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a stretch of water without current or movement
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- the quality of being loose (not taut)
verb
- avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
- be inattentive to, or neglect
- release tension on
- make less active or fast
- become slow or slower
- make less active or intense
- become less in amount or intensity
- cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
adj
noun
- A fine thread or wire.
- A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
- The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
- Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
- A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe.
verb
- To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
- To have a seizure.
- To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
- Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
- To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
- To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
- To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
- (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
- To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
- To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
- To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
noun
- A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- Sexual intercourse.
- Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”)
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
- A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
- The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
- A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- The penis of a person or animal.
- A tailing.
- The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
- The distal tendon of a muscle.
- The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
- The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- The stern; the back of the kayak.
- The buttocks or backside.
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
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verb
- To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- To pull or draw by the tail.
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