Something situated or placed in front.
To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
To deprive (with of).
A tuft or clump of grass.
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 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.
To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.