The woody fibre of flax or hemp; the refuse of scutched flax or hemp.
A bricklayer's small picklike tool with two cutting edges (or prongs) for dressing stone or cutting and trimming bricks.
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.
To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.
A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.
A sequence of connections.
A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.
A screw thread.
A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
The line midway between the banks of a stream.
A continued theme or idea.
A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread.
Composition; quality; fineness.
To put thread through.
To remove the hair using a thread.
To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).
To screw on; to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt.