A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
A sausage.
A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
A goal.
A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
A problem or difficulty with something.
A dead tree that remains standing.
A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
One of the secondary branches of an antler.
To obtain or pick up.
To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.
To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
A knitting needle.
Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
A telecommunication wire or cable.
An electric telegraph; a telegram.
A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
A deadline or critical endpoint.
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
A finish line of a racetrack.
A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
To string on a wire.
To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
To install eavesdropping equipment.
To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
To equip with wires for use with electricity.