A beam compass.
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
Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
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.
To entangle, as in a net.
To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
A sight on a sextant or compass.
Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
A weather vane.