An obstacle or impediment.
A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
The lists in a tournament.
A structure that bars passage.
A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
A boundary or limit.
To block or obstruct with a barrier.
Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
A net for confining a woman's hair.
A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc.
An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.
A beam compass.
To entangle, as in a net.
To confine; to hamper; to shackle.