A pothook.
A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
A bishop's standard staff of office.
A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
Ill, sick.
Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
Annoyed, angry; upset.
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
To become bent or hooked.
To bend, or form into a hook.
A source of supply.
A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
A well drink.
A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
The cockpit of a sailboat.
The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
An exclamation of indignance.
Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
Used as a greeting
Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
To a significant degree.
In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
Completely, fully.
Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
To have something seep out of the surface.
To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
Prudent; good; well-advised.
In good health.
Good, content.