A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
A police officer or prison guard.
A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
A merlon.
To steal.
To adopt.
To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take.
To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
To earn by bad behavior.
Of a pimp: to recruit a prostitute into the stable.
To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
A shred of torn cloth; an individual item of torn and ragged clothing.
A person engaged in tatting.
To fall into tatters.
To destroy an article of clothing etc. by shredding.