Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
To make a dull sound.
To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
To insert a line in a chock.
Entirely; quite.
The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
A spiral.
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
A sharp or tapering point.
to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
To furnish with a spire.
To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.