A merlon.
The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
A police officer or prison guard.
A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
To steal.
To adopt.
To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take.
To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
To earn by bad behavior.
Of a pimp: to recruit a prostitute into the stable.
To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
A tropical kingfisher of the genus Halcyon, such as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia.
The dead body of such a bird, said in Tudor times to act as a weather vane when hung from a beam.
A kingfisher whose nesting by the sea was said, in classical mythology, to cause the Gods to restrain the wind and waves.
Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher.
Calm, undisturbed, peaceful, serene.