A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
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 paling; a hurdle.
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 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 mop, especially on a ship.
A sailor; a swabby.
A naval officer's epaulet.
A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.
A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns.
A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material).
To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab.