One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
An astrological house; a station of the moon.
An apartment building.
An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
A luxurious flat (apartment).
Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
A distaff.
A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
A woman's breasts.
A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
A bunk.
A grate on which bacon is laid.
A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
Sleep.
A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
A fast amble.
A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
To place in or hang on a rack.
To torture (someone) on the rack.
To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
To strike in the testicles.
To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.