A loop of thread, typically braided, attached at each end to a jacket. Used to pass through the brooch bar of medals to affix them to the jacket without damaging it.
A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end. Used to secure oars etc. at their place.
A spade for digging turf in the Fens.
A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle
A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops.
An eye in the end of a rope.
The clevis of a pulley block.
A pocket in clothing.
A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
A sausage.
A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
A goal.
A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
A problem or difficulty with something.
A dead tree that remains standing.
A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
One of the secondary branches of an antler.
To obtain or pick up.
To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.
To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.