To pull up with a rope or cable.
To throw, cast.
To displace (a vein, stratum).
To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
To rise and fall.
To utter with effort.
To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
An effort to vomit; retching.
Broken wind in horses.
The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
To string on a wire.
To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
To install eavesdropping equipment.
To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
To equip with wires for use with electricity.
Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
A knitting needle.
Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
A telecommunication wire or cable.
An electric telegraph; a telegram.
A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
A deadline or critical endpoint.
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
A finish line of a racetrack.
A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.