Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
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).
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
Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.
To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.
To hatch.
To seize, as though with claws.
To grip or grasp tightly.
To win in a 1vX (one versus X) situation.
A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
The groove of a pulley.
Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
An act of gorging.
A concave moulding; a cavetto.
To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.
To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
Gorgeous.