To extinguish (fire) (by depriving it of oxygen or fuel).
To cause (a person) to lose consciousness by applying a chokehold.
To say (something) with difficulty, while or as if choking.
To destroy (something) by depriving it of a vital resource.
To prevent (light) from passing through.
To prevent (something) from growing by overwhelming it or robbing it of nutrients.
To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.
A bricklayer's small picklike tool with two cutting edges (or prongs) for dressing stone or cutting and trimming bricks.
The woody fibre of flax or hemp; the refuse of scutched flax or hemp.
A tuft or clump of grass.
A wooden implement shaped like a large knife used to separate the valuable fibres of flax or hemp by beating them and scraping from it the woody or coarse portions.