An obstruction.
An alcoholic drink popular in colonial America, consisting of apple cider (or sometimes applejack) mixed with rum (or sometimes gin or whisky).
A refusal to cooperate.
Certain, definite.
To obstruct.
To refuse to answer or cooperate, especially in supplying information.
An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.
A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.
Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.