A small quantity of straw etc.
A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
Complete control over a situation.
The firing mechanism.
Something sure to be a success.
A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
A grapple in wrestling.
A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
To fasten with a lock.
To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
To play in the position of lock.
To become fastened in place.
To intertwine or dovetail.
To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
To furnish (a canal) with locks.
Reduced to a minimum or bare essentials.
A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
A very thin person.
A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
The network of veins in a leaf.
A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.
A very thin form of light-faced type.
An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.