woold
tye
shroud
cringle
yard-rope
undergird
halyard
sling
guy rope
lift
trussing
truss
woolding
running rigging
block
guy
twine
brail
sail
lanyard
rope
tackle fall
trice up
top-rope
bondable
halliard
guy wire
guy cable
bindable
warping hook
serve
hank
Blackwall hitch
block and tackle
lashing
rope up
backstay
unciferous
hoist
kicking strap
guy-wire
stay
run up
cable
steering wheel becket
rack
cheese down
pirl
taut
fleet
pull in
capstan screw
laid rope
boathook
buntline
sailyarn
bull rope
convolution
forebrace
cleat
keckle
strap
tether
housing
rigging
runner
paunch mat
lash
tackle
back saw
harness
hookable
clove hook
mouse
gambrel
backsaw
jib
tack
gammon
skid
guyline
mousing
gange
ancistroid
mastrope
towrope
towing rope
towline
towing line
tow
boatrope
table
hawser
aiglet
bondable
bindable
unciferous
taut
hookable
ancistroid
tye
shroud
cringle
yard-rope
halyard
sling
guy rope
lift
trussing
truss
woolding
running rigging
block
guy
brail
sail
lanyard
tackle fall
top-rope
halliard
guy wire
guy cable
warping hook
hank
Blackwall hitch
block and tackle
lashing
backstay
kicking strap
guy-wire
stay
cable
steering wheel becket
rack
capstan screw
laid rope
boathook
buntline
sailyarn
bull rope
convolution
forebrace
cleat
strap
tether
housing
rigging
runner
paunch mat
tackle
back saw
clove hook
mouse
backsaw
tack
skid
guyline
mousing
mastrope
towrope
towing rope
towline
towing line
tow
boatrope
hawser
aiglet
woold
undergird
twine
rope
trice up
serve
rope up
hoist
run up
cheese down
pirl
fleet
pull in
keckle
lash
tackle
harness
gambrel
jib
gammon
gange
table
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 band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast.
- A strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder.
- A loop of rope or fabric tape used for various purposes: e.g. as part of a runner, or providing extra protection when abseiling or belaying.
- A drink composed of a spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened.
- A loop of cloth, worn around the neck, for supporting a baby or other such load.
- The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke.
- A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering.
- An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other.
- A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported.
- A young or infant spider, such as one raised in captivity.
verb
noun
- A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- A rise; a degree of elevation.
- A thief.
- The amount or weight to be lifted.
- The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
- An act of lifting or raising.
- One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- Air.
- Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
- That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
- An improvement in mood.
- The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
- The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
- Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
- A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
- The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
- The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
- A liftgate.
verb
- To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
- To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
- To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- To arrest (a person).
- To steal.
- to cause to move upwards.
- To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
- To lift weights; to weight-lift.
- To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
- To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
- To raise or rise.
- To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
noun
- The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.
- A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
- A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.
- A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
- A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.
- A triangular bracket.
- Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
- An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
verb
noun
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A cellblock.
- The popping crease.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
- Solitary confinement.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- A blockhole.
- A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- The human head.
- A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A roughly cuboid building.
- A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
verb
- To hit with a block.
- To wait for some condition to become true.
- To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- To play a block shot.
- To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
- To shape or sketch out roughly.
- To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
- To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
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
verb
- To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
- To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
- To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
- To weave together.
- To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
- To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
noun
noun
- A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.
- Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
- A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
- A sailfish.
- The blade of a windmill.
- The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.
- The conning tower of a submarine.
- The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
- an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids
- A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
- The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.
verb
- To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
- To set sail; to begin a voyage.
- To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
- To move briskly but sedately.
- To deal out (cards) from a distance by impelling them across a surface.
- To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.
- To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
noun
- A short rope used for fastening rigging, as a handle, etc.
- A cord worn around the neck, shoulder, or wrist which is attached to a small object to be carried such as an identity card or security pass, key, knife, or whistle.
- A cord with a hook which is secured to an artillery piece, and pulled to fire the weapon.
- A craft activity done by intricately braiding thin colored plastic lines to make patterns, or the product of such a craft.
verb
- To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
- To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
- To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
- To tie (something) with rope.
- To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
- 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.
verb
- To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
- To be useful to; to meet the needs of.
- To be a servant or worker; to perform the duties of a servant or employee; to render service.
- To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).
- To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.
- To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity.
- To attractively display something (especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.
- To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.
- To perform (a public obligation).
- To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.
- To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
- To present an attractive personal appearance.
- To usefully take the place as, instead of something else.
- To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
- To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something.
- To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
- To evoke something (especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
- To be in military service.
- To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)
- To work, to operate (a weapon).
- To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.
noun
noun
noun
- A part of the rigging of a sailing ship extending from masthead the top of the mast to the back of the ship; they support the strain on all upper masts and provide additional support to the shrouds when the wind is abaft the beam.
- A strengthening or supporting piece that is built into the back of something.
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.
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- 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.
- 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.
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
- Steep; ascending.
- Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
- Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
- (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
adv
noun
- A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
- 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
- An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
- An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
- The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
- A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
- 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 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 friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- 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.
adj
- Under tension, like a stretched bowstring, rope, or sail; tight.
- Containing only relevant parts; brief and controlled.
- Experiencing anxiety or stress.
- Strong; uncompromising.
- Not flabby; firm, toned; (of a person) having a lean, strong body.
- Neat and well-disciplined; (by extension) efficient and in order.
verb
verb
- To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
- To flee, to escape, to speed away.
- To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
- To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
- To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
- To move or change in position.
- To take the cream from; to skim.
- To evanesce, disappear, die out.
noun
- A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
- Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
- An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
- A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
- A large, coordinated group of people.
- Any group of associated items.
- A group of vessels or vehicles.
adj
verb
noun
- Mainly on sailboats, the mechanism for winding ropes under a lot of tension; a capstan.
- A type of screw commonly used to regulate the height of the action in a piano. The capstan screw is designed to be turned from the side, not the head, unlike an ordinary screw. A lever enters a hole in the side of the screw to turn it.
noun
- A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
- A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components.
- An athletic shoe equipped with cleats.
- A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.
- A protrusion on the bottom of a shoe or wheel meant for better traction.
verb
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
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
- An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
- A mechanical component's container or covering.
- Residences, collectively.
- A niche for a statue.
- A houseline.
- That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
- A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
- The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
- The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.
noun
- A rope to increase the power of a tackle.
- Somebody who controls or manages (e.g. a system).
- A player who runs for a batsman who is too injured to run; he is dressed exactly as the injured batsman, and carries a bat.
- Anyone sent on an errand or with communications, especially for a bank (or, historically, a foot soldier responsible for carrying messages during war).
- A short sling with a carabiner on either end, used to link the climbing rope to a bolt or other protection such as a nut or friend.
- An automobile; a working or driveable automobile.
- A competitor in a poker tournament.
- A person or vessel who runs blockades or engages in smuggling. (Especially used in combination, e.g. gunrunner).
- Part of a shoe that is stitched to the bottom of the upper so it can be glued to the sole.
- A speedrunner.
- A long, narrow carpet for a high traffic area such as a hall or stairs.
- An employee of a sports agent who tries to recruit possible player clients for the agent.
- A quick escape away from a scene.
- A type of soft-soled shoe originally intended for runners.
- A person who moves, on foot, at a fast pace, especially an athlete.
- Any entrant, person or animal (especially a horse), for a race or any competition; a candidate for an election.
- An idea or plan that has potential to be adopted or put into operation.
- A part of a cigarette that is burning unevenly.
- A baserunner.
- One who runs away; a deserter or escapee.
- The blade of an ice skate.
- The channel or strip on which a drawer is opened and closed.
- Part of a mechanism which allows something to be pulled out for maintenance.
- The curved base of a rocking chair.
- In saddlery, a loop of metal through which a rein is passed.
- In molding, a channel cut in a mold.
- The rotating-stone of a grinding-mill.
- The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
- A tool in which lenses are fastened for polishing.
- A long stolon sent out by a plant (such as strawberry), in order to root new plantlets, or a plant that propagates by using such runners.
- A running gag
- A part of an apparatus that moves quickly.
- A smooth strip on which a sledge runs.
- A leaping food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; the skipjack, shoemaker, or yellowtail.
- A restaurant employee responsible for taking food from the kitchens to the tables.
- A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
- A person (from one or the other team) who runs out onto the field during the game to take verbal instructions from the coach to the players. A runner mustn't interfere with play, and may have to wear an identifying shirt to make clear his or her purpose on the field.
- A strip of fabric used to decorate or protect a table or dressing table.
verb
- To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
- To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
- To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- To ply the whip; to strike.
noun
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- An attempt; a go at something.
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
adj
verb
- put a harness
- accept as a challenge
- seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball
noun
- gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails
- the person who plays offensive or defensive tackle on a football team
- gear used in fishing
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, typically opposite one of the offensive guards
- (American football) grasping an opposing player with the intention of stopping by throwing to the ground
verb
noun
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
verb
- To shift, or swing around, as a sail, boom, yard, etc., as in tacking.
- To stop and refuse to go forward (usually of a horse).
- To stop doing something, to become reluctant to proceed with an activity.
noun
- The projecting arm of a crane.
- An object that is used for performing tricks while skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, in-line skating, or biking. These objects are usually found in a terrain park or skate park.
- Crystal meth.
- The mouth, sometimes particularly the tongue, underlip, or tooth.
- One who jibs or balks, refusing to continue forward.
- Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.
- A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.
- A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast.
- A stationary condition; a standstill.
noun
- A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
- The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
- Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
- The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
- A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
- The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
- That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
- A small nail with a flat head.
- A stain; a tache.
- That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
- A direction or course of action, especially a new one.
- A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
- Food generally; fare, especially of the bread kind.
- A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
- A thumbtack.
- The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
verb
- To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
- To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
- To add something as an extra item.
- To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
- to tack (something) onto (something)
- To place the tack on a horse; often paired with "up".
verb
- To lash with ropes (on a ship).
- To cure bacon by salting.
- To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).
noun
- Backgammon (the game itself).
- A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).
- A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone.
- A cut of quick-cured pork leg.
- A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively.
noun
- A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
- A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
- A runner of a sled.
- (also losing skid) A losing streak.
- Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it when handling cargo.
- A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
- One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.
- A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.
- A stepchild.
- A script kiddie.
- An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.
- A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill.
verb
- To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.
- To protect or support with a skid or skids.
- To cause to move on skids.
- To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
- (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
- To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.
adj
noun
- A rope or cable used in towing.
- The short, coarse, less desirable fibres separated by hackling from the finer longer fibres (line).
- Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
- The act of towing and the condition of being towed.
- Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
- A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.
- An untwisted bundle of fibres such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.
verb
verb
- To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
- To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
- To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
- To put on a table.
- To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
noun
- A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
- One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
- A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
- The lineup of players at a given table.
- A flat tray which can be used as a table.
- A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
- An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
- The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
- The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
- A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
- A supply of food or entertainment.
- A group of people at a table, for example for a meal or game.
- The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
- A service of Holy Communion.
- A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
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.
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