To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.
To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
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 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.
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.