A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
A scale of a fish or similar animal
A wire rack for drying fish.
The meat of the gummy shark.
Dogfish.
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
A paling; a hurdle.
A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
A flat turn or tier of rope.
A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
To break or chip off in a flake.
To hit (another person).
To lay out on a flake for drying.
To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
One of the straws (or small pieces of wood, ivory, etc.) used in the game of jackstraws or spillikins.