To levy a cess.
Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.
An assessed tax, duty, or levy.
The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
To check or stop, or deter, (an action).
To stop the flow of (blood); to stop (a wound) from bleeding.
To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).
To make (a building or other structure) watertight or weatherproof.
To stop the progression of (an illness); also, to alleviate (pain); often followed by of: to relieve (someone's) pain.
Of bleeding: to stop.
A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release; also, a dam or lock in a river.