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 repel or drive back.
To reject or rebuff.
To cause revulsion in.
the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed
refusal, rejection or repulsion