n
(obsolete) One who binds or ties.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To adorn with trappings; to dress or array.
n
(figuratively) Anything that restricts one's freedom or opportunities.
v
(transitive) To encircle.
v
(transitive) To surround as by a net.
v
(transitive) To furnish with a tag; deck with tags.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To dress in, or put on, warm clothes.
v
(intransitive) To fasten all the buttons on a coat, or similar item of clothing, to keep warm.
n
Alternative form of buttress [(architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.]
v
(UK, obsolete, transitive) To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.
v
To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
n
A group or bunch (of people or things).
adv
With a clutching or grasping motion.
adj
Tending to clutch; clingy or grabby.
n
Any of the handles mounted on a coffin so that it can be carried.
v
(transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
n
(military) Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces.
v
To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
v
To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon.
n
The act or process of placing handcuffs on a person.
v
(transitive) To check, restrain or control.
n
(military) A fortress at the end of a defile.
v
(archaic, transitive) To shield; to defend.
v
(intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
adj
Bound by chains or shackles.
v
(idiomatic) To be executed by hanging.
v
To shackle, fetter, chain.
n
A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
v
(figuratively) to restrain or restrict.
v
(transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
n
(finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
adj
Alternative form of hidebound [Bound with the hide of an animal.]
v
Alternative form of hit a wall [(informal) To come up against an insuperable problem.]
v
(figuratively) To render helpless.
v
(transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
v
(transitive) To put in a hovel; to shelter.
v
To hedge, cover, make, or enclose with hurdles.
n
(obsolete) Trapping or entangling someone or something in a noose, snaring; hanging.
v
(transitive) To manacle; to fetter.
adj
Received into some other thing or part, like a sword into a sheath.
v
(transitive) To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole.
n
(construction) A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
n
The act of catching something with a lasso.
v
(dated, idiomatic) To fetter, to shackle; to imprison.
v
(intransitive) To put on several layers of clothing.
v
(figuratively) to curb, restrain
n
(figuratively) A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
adj
(Scotland) Fastened or secured with a lock.
n
An inflexible, rigid or stifling pattern.
n
(figuratively) A clog or such jam or mess that halts or greatly delays progress.
v
(transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
n
(figuratively) A fetter, a restriction.
n
Obsolete form of manacle. [A shackle for the wrist, usually consisting of a pair of joined rings; a handcuff; (by extension) a similar device put around an ankle to restrict free movement.]
v
(transitive) To put a nappy on.
adj
(idiomatic, figuratively, by extension) Showing signs of imminent failure or collapse.
v
(transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
v
(transitive) To put or keep in, or as in, a phial.
v
(transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
v
(transitive) To confine (animals) in a pinfold.
n
(grammar) Something that is put somewhere; the object of the action of putting.
adj
Restrained by shackles, chained.
n
An improvised weapon consisting of a padlock placed in a sock, common in prison environments.
adj
Having a stanchel, or stanchion.
v
(literally) To put someone into a straitjacket.
adj
(of a person, informal) Muscular.
v
(slang, transitive, archaic) To execute by hanging.
v
(intransitive) To be attached diagonally or at a slant; also, to be bent at a sharp angle.
v
To pull or draw by the tail.
v
(informal, intransitive) To dress garishly.
n
One who engages in tightlacing.
v
(transitive) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.
v
(transitive) To fit tyres to (a vehicle).
adj
Having the belt or girdle off or loose.
v
to take something from a hanging or slung position.
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