A material, consisting of tarred fibres, used to caulk or pack joints in plumbing, masonry, and wooden shipbuilding.
The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in hackling.
Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
A small brook or rivulet.
A passage for water; gutter.
A nucleotide chain.
A string.
A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
A street.
An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
To form by uniting strands.
To break a strand of (a rope).
To run aground; to beach.
To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.