To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab.
A sailor; a swabby.
A naval officer's epaulet.
A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.
A mop, especially on a ship.
A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns.
A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material).
To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
To work one's way by artful or devious means.
To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
To move with one's body dragging the ground.
To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
To deworm (an animal).
Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
The lytta.
A contemptible or devious being.
A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.