To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progressing.
To put off; to postpone.
To decelerate; to slow down.
Retardation; delay.
A slowing down of the tempo; a ritardando.
A person or being who is extremely stupid or slow to learn.
To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.
Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.
A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.
A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.