Any form of formal isolation or inhibition of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
Inhibition of the activity (function) of chemical messengers or their receptors, such as (often) receptor antagonism.
The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.
To create a blockade against.
Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
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.
A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
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.