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 covering of fine, soft hairs; a pubescence.
A mass of filamentous hairs on the leaf of a plant.
A network of fine blood vessels between the pia mater and the cerebral cortex.