girt
capsizer
anchor rope
anchor chain
bitter end
shank-painter
spring
headfast
capsizee
surge
cordage
timenoguy
breastfast
hawser
clubhaul
spring line
rail
stream cable
kedge
sternson
hawsehole
hatch
crank
Young's modulus
fleet
overlashing
kevil
bower anchor
entanglement
sheer hulk
bobstay
breast line
splice
cable
draft
shroud
laniard
ceiling
draught
seacock
gauge
lanyard
pulley shell
catenary
bell rope
head
docking
bilge
mooring ring
block and tackle
clinch
gammon
top
sennit
block
cable jointing
cat
footrope
spiling
intercostal
bilge keel
ballasting
cable drum
compliance
apeak
gammoning
bungee
step
snub
heaving line
hook
jackstay
bungee cord
cockscomb
grappling iron
astay
tug
yard
eye plate
slackline
countertug
cast
swallow
chainbolt
shell
launch
swifter
up and down
anchor line
moon pool
broadside
ground cable
dolphin
crimp
cargo net
blockader
crank
up and down
apeak
astay
capsizer
anchor rope
anchor chain
bitter end
shank-painter
spring
headfast
capsizee
surge
cordage
timenoguy
breastfast
hawser
spring line
stream cable
kedge
sternson
hawsehole
hatch
Young's modulus
overlashing
kevil
bower anchor
entanglement
sheer hulk
bobstay
breast line
splice
cable
draft
shroud
laniard
ceiling
draught
seacock
gauge
lanyard
pulley shell
catenary
bell rope
head
docking
bilge
mooring ring
block and tackle
clinch
gammon
top
sennit
block
cable jointing
cat
footrope
spiling
intercostal
bilge keel
ballasting
cable drum
compliance
gammoning
bungee
step
heaving line
hook
jackstay
bungee cord
cockscomb
grappling iron
yard
eye plate
slackline
countertug
swallow
chainbolt
shell
swifter
anchor line
moon pool
broadside
ground cable
dolphin
cargo net
blockader
girt
spring
clubhaul
rail
fleet
snub
tug
cast
launch
crimp
verb
- To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
- to descend or originate from.
- To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
- To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- To have something crack.
- To grow taller or longer.
- to catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
- To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- To extend, to curve.
- To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
- To cause to rise from cover.
- To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
- To cause to crack.
- to arise, to come into existence.
- To build, to form the initial curve of.
- To gush, to flow out of the ground.
- To rise from cover.
- To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- To bring forth.
- To sprout, to grow,
- To crack.
- To come upon and flush out
- To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- To come dramatically into view.
- To spend the springtime somewhere
- To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
- to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
- to find or get enough food during springtime.
- To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
- To be born, descend, or originate from
- To appear, to dawn.
- To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
noun
- A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- An erection of the penis.
- The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- A race, a lineage.
- a period of political liberalization and democratization
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- A youth.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
adj
noun
- The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
- A deployment in large numbers at short notice.
- The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation.
- A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.
- A momentary reversal of the airflow through the compressor section of a jet engine due to disruption of the airflow entering the engine's air intake, accompanied by loud banging noises, emission of flame, and temporary loss of thrust.
- A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.
- The swell or heave of the sea (FM 55-501).
verb
verb
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- complain bitterly
- enclose with rails
- provide with rails
- separate with a railing
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- lay with rails
- spread negative information about
- criticize severely
noun
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- short for railway
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
noun
- An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
- A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
- A trapdoor.
- An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
- The act of hatching.
- A gullet.
- A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
- A floodgate; a sluice gate.
- A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
- Development; disclosure; discovery.
- A bedstead.
- A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
- A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
- The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
verb
adj
- Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
- Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
- Sick; unwell.
- Strange, weird, odd.
noun
- Synonym of methamphetamine.
- A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
- An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories
- The penis.
- A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
- An ill-tempered or nasty person.
- The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
- A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
- a fit of temper or passion.
verb
verb
- To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
- To flee, to escape, to speed away.
- To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
- To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
- To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
- 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
noun
- An obstruction of cables and spars across a river or harbour entrance.
- The condition of being deeply involved and intricated (with politics, a group, another person, etc.)
- The condition, or an instance, of being romantically or sexually involved with another person; an affair.
- The act of entangling.
- An obstruction placed in front or on the flank of a fortification, to impede an enemy's approach.
noun
- The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
- A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
- That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
- Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
- The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.
verb
- To unite as if splicing.
- To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.
- To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
- To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
- To unite in marriage.
noun
- A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
- An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
- 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.
- 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
- the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)
- a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another
- a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)
- a preliminary sketch of a design or picture
- a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg
- any of the various versions in the development of a written work
- a regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace
- a dose of liquid medicine
- compulsory military service
- a large and hurried swallow
- the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
verb
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
- The inner planking of a vessel.
- The highest altitude at which an aircraft can safely maintain flight.
- The overhead interior surface that covers the upper limits of a room.
- The smallest integer greater than or equal to a given number.
- The upper limit of an object or action.
- The measurement of visible distance from ground or sea level to an overcast cloud cover; under a clear sky, the ceiling measurement is identified as "unlimited."
- The overhead closure of a room.
- The maximum permitted level in a financial transaction.
noun
- the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)
- a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg
- a large and hurried swallow
- a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)
- a dose of liquid medicine
- the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
verb
noun
- the thickness of wire
- a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
- the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
verb
noun
- The curve of an anchor cable from the seabed to the vessel; it should be horizontal at the anchor so as to bury the flukes.
- The curve described by a flexible chain or a rope if it is supported at each end and is acted upon by no other forces than a uniform gravitational force due to its own weight and variations involving additional and non-uniform forces.
- A cable, the segments of which between supports take a catenary geometric shape, supporting in turn an overhead conductor that provides trains, trams or trolley buses with electricity, or the combination of the conductor, the cable, and supports.
- Any physical cable, rope, chain, or other weight-supporting structure taking such geometric shape, as a suspension cable for a bridge or a power-transmission line or an arch for a bridge or roof.
adj
noun
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- The uppermost part of a valley.
- The antlers of a deer.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- The headstock of a guitar.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- The top edge of a sail.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The toilet of a ship.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- Headway; progress.
- Mind; one's own thoughts.
- Topic; subject.
- The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- The glans penis.
- The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- A headmaster or headmistress.
- Denouement; crisis.
- A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- Leader; chief; mastermind.
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- An individual person.
- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- The bow of a vessel.
- A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- The population of game.
- The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- A single animal.
- The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- A headland.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
verb
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- To form a head.
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- To move in a specified direction.
- To check or restrain.
- To remove the head from a fish.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- To set on the head.
adj
noun
- The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.
- A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.
- The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
- The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
- The sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.
noun
- A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
- Any of several fastenings.
- A passionate embrace.
- The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast.
- The act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.
verb
noun
- A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).
- Backgammon (the game itself).
- 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.
verb
noun
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- A stroke on the top of the ball.
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- A top quark.
- A lid, cap or cover of a container.
- A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
- the part of something that is usually the top.
- The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
- A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin
- (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
- A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.
- A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- Highest pitch or loudest volume.
- The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- Oral stimulation of the male member, a blowjob.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- The near end of somewhere
- A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
adj
- Situated on the top of something.
- Best; of the highest quality or rank.
- Very good, of high quality, power, or rank.
adv
verb
- To anally penetrate in gay sex.
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
- To commit suicide.
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- To murder.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
- To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- To cover with another dye.
- To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
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 strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
- A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages as a siege weapon to allow assailants to approach enemy defences.
- Any similar animal of the family Felidae, which includes lions, tigers, bobcats, leopards, cougars, cheetahs, caracals, lynxes, and other such non-domesticated species.
- A prostitute.
- A domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
- A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position it is placed.
- A ground vehicle which uses caterpillar tracks, especially tractors, trucks, minibuses, and snow groomers.
- A spiteful or angry woman.
- A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
- A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.
- An enthusiast or player of jazz.
- A street name of the drug methcathinone.
- An animal of the family Felidae
- Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails.
- A person (usually male).
- Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.)
adj
verb
- To go wandering at night.
- To vomit.
- To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
- To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
- To gossip in a catty manner.
- To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
noun
- A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
- An act of complying.
- The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
- The state of being compliant.
- The department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with.
- The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan
noun
noun
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the distance covered by a step
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- relative position in a graded series
- a short distance
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- a musical interval of two semitones
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
verb
- shift or move by taking a step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
- treat badly
- furnish with steps
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- measure (distances) by pacing
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
verb
- To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
- To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
- To check; to reprimand.
- To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.
- To sob with convulsions.
- To stub out (a cigarette etc).
- To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
adj
- Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
- Conspicuously short.
- Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
noun
noun
- A ship's anchor.
- Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- A field sown two years in succession.
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- A jack (the playing card).
- Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”)
- A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- a háček.
- a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- A finesse.
- A curveball.
- A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- A prostitute.
- A snare; a trap.
- A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
verb
- To attach a hook to.
- To finesse.
- To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
- To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- To connect (hook into, hook together).
- To engage in prostitution.
- To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- To play a hook shot.
- To make addicted; to captivate.
- To move or go with a sudden turn.
- To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
noun
- A line (rope, webbing or cable), attached to a boat at the ends, to which a safety harness can be clipped to restrain falling in rough conditions and to prevent falling overboard.
- A stay (rope, bar or batten), running along a ship's yard, to which is attached the head of a square sail.
- A cable between two ships or from a ship to a fixed point which can be used to support a load during transfer of personnel or materiel along the cable.
- A line fixed at both ends, which may be used to guide a load or a diver along the route of the line. Uses include guidance to and from the underwater work site, and as a means of controlling an underwater search.
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noun
- A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed
- A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia)
- The fleshy red crest of a rooster
- An annual garden plant (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata), having showy red clusters of flowers
- A red cap once worn by court jesters
noun
- a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
- a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
- the enclosed land around a house or other building
- a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)
- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
- a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
- a tract of land where logs are accumulated
- an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
- an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
verb
- To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.
- To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
- To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.
- Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
- To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.
- To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.
- To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
- To throw.
- To throw down or aside.
- To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
- To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).
- To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
- To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
- To broadcast (video) over the Internet or a local network, especially to one's television.
- To remove, take off (clothes).
- To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
- To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
- To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
- To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
- To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
- To assign (a role in a play or performance).
- To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).
- To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
adj
noun
- Visual appearance.
- An object made in a mould.
- A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
- A squint.
- Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
- The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
- The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
- A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
- The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
- Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
- The casting procedure.
- The mould used to make cast objects.
- A group of crabs.
- An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
- An act of throwing.
noun
- The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
- Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
verb
- To retract; to recant.
- To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
- To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
noun
- The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- A gouge bit or shell bit.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- An emaciated person.
- The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- The outward form independent of what is inside.
- A legal entity that has no operations.
- The empty outward form of someone or something.
- An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- A person's ear.
- Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- Any mollusk having such a covering.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
verb
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- To form a shelling.
- To switch to a shell or command line.
verb
- To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
- To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
- To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
- Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
- To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
- To start to operate.
- To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
- To release; to put onto the market for sale
- To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
noun
- The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
- A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
- An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.
- The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
- The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
- An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
noun
- the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- a speech of violent denunciation
- all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship
- the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship
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verb
adv
noun
- A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.
- A permanent fender designed to protect a heavy boat or coastal structure from the impact of large floating objects such as ice or floating logs.
- The dauphin, eldest son of the kings of France.
- A man-made semi submerged maritime structure, usually installed to provide a fixed structure for temporary mooring, to prevent ships from drifting to shallow water or to serve as base for navigational aids.
- Tursiops truncatus, (Atlantic bottlenose dolphin) the most well-known species.
- A carnivorous aquatic mammal in one of several families of order Cetacea, famed for its intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans.
- A mooring post on a wharf or beach.
- A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.
- A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped through the deck and the hull of an enemy's vessel to sink it.
- A depiction of a fish, with a broad indented fin, usually embowed.
- A fish, the mahi-mahi or dorado, Coryphaena hippurus, with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration.
verb
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
- to hold using a crimp
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
noun
- One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
- A small hold with little surface area.
- The natural curliness of wool fibres.
- Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- A grip on such a hold.
- A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
- An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
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