A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
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 thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
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.
A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
A knitting needle.
Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
A telecommunication wire or cable.
An electric telegraph; a telegram.
A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
A deadline or critical endpoint.
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
A finish line of a racetrack.
A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
To string on a wire.
To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
To install eavesdropping equipment.
To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
To equip with wires for use with electricity.