To tack, cruise about.
To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
A corset.
To contend.
To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
To call into question; to oppose.
To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.
Controversy; debate.
Struggle for superiority; combat.
A competition.