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.
couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed)
A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse and twisted to keep the animal quiet during minor surgery.
A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.
The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.
A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird.
To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
To jerk sharply and briefly.
To cause to twitch; spasm.
To perform a twitch; spasm.