An unimportant individual in a greater system.
One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
A tooth on a gear.
A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
A small fishing boat.
A trick or deception; a falsehood.
A clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length.
A gear; a cogwheel.
To furnish with a cog or cogs.
To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
To plagiarize.
To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
One who is compelled by something, especially something that poses a threat; one who is not free to choose their own course of action.
The condition of being held as security or to compel someone else to act or not act in a particular way.
Something that constrains one's actions because it is at risk.
A person seized in order to compel another party to act (or refrain from acting) in a certain way, because of the threat of harm to the hostage.
A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or similar agreement, such as to ensure the status of a vassal.
To hold (someone or something) hostage, especially in a way that constrains or controls the person or thing held, or in order to exchange for something else.
To give (someone or something) as a hostage to (someone or something else).