The natural curliness of wool fibres.
One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
A small hold with little surface area.
Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
A grip on such a hold.
A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
to hold using a crimp
To bend or mold leather into shape.
To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
To pinch and hold; to seize.
A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
A skewer.
A misty shower; dew.
A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
The unbranched antler of a young deer.
One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.
To be misty; to drizzle.
To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
To skewer food, for roasting over a fire