To form a kink or twist.
To laugh loudly.
To be formed into a kink or twist.
To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
To card wool or other fibres.
To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
simple past tense of rive
simple past tense of reeve
To roam or wander through.
To draw through an eye or aperture.
To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.
A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.
The act of wandering; a ramble.