To grip or grasp tightly.
To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.
To hatch.
To seize, as though with claws.
To win in a 1vX (one versus X) situation.
Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
An important or critical situation.
A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
A group or bunch (of people or things).
Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
A difficult maneuver
To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.
To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
To rock (a baby to sleep).
To contain in or as if in a cradle.
To nurse or train in infancy.
To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.
To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
Infancy, or very early life.
A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.
A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.