A paling; a hurdle.
A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
A scale of a fish or similar animal
A wire rack for drying fish.
The meat of the gummy shark.
Dogfish.
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
A flat turn or tier of rope.
A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
To break or chip off in a flake.
To hit (another person).
To lay out on a flake for drying.
To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
A scute.
The kneecap.
One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavily armed infantry of the Roman army.
A shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick (cf. alloscutum, conscutum)