To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
To catch the attention of.
To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
To undergo cardiac arrest.
The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
A device to physically arrest motion.
The condition of being stopped, standstill.
A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
To displace or take the place of (by having higher precedence, etc).
To prevent or beat to the punch, to forestall an expected occurrence by acting first.
To appropriate first.
To secure (land, etc.) by the right of preemption (purchasing before others, e.g. land because one already occupies it).
To make a preemptive bid at bridge.
A preemptive bid.